#art of language invention

[dedalvs]

Wait wait wait, there are two editions of The Art of Language Invention? When did the newer one come out? What's in the newer one that isn't in the older one? I have the older one; should I get the newer one as well? — Zhyler anon

Sure does. This is the old cover:

And this is the new cover:

There's an entirely new chapter in the new one. I made it the fourth chapter pushing the orthography chapter last. There's a new case study on one of our LangTime Study languages: the rabbit language Engála! I was happy that made it in, although I was bummed initially at having to include it. I wrote up an entire case study on the Munja'kin language from NBC's Emerald City. I contacted my old showrunner David Schulner and asked for his blessing and he was happy to have me include it. Then it was run up the flagpole to NBC and NBC declined! This was the same network that had previously given me permission to use the Defiance languages in the book which are used a lot (and they're used a lot on purpose! NBC gave me the full greenlight to use them! HBO said the GoT languages had to comprise 49% or less of the language material in the book, so I had to use it judiciously). I was so bummed, but it did allow me to use one of the languages that Jessie and I created, and that made me happy.

I should post that Munja'kin case study somewhere at some point... Won't let me publish it? I'll just give it away, then! 😤

[sushiisiu]

24 yo highschooler with a crush

[uo6ep]

omg forgot to post the gay furry stuff

[rotzaprachim]

the shock i had at the group of (mostly i think) queer german majors in a theatre production in which NO ONE had seen Y tu mamá también, only one person had heard of it, and not only had no one heard of the yentl movie/short story someone thought it must be realllly obscure... that can only meet the shock of being in a room with a couple actual english majors (and i think multiple queer students) who had never heard of tony kusher or angels in america

[jerichogender]

thinking about the time they actually gave joey dialogue in the new teen titans: games…

“He could be role-playing with us. Art represents civilization. Maybe he’s showing us his end game?”

this says sooo much about him: his deductive reasoning skills, his appreciation for art, his understanding of other people’s psychology. i need more stories where joey gets to play detective, especially in an art or music history context, and i NEED him to have proper dialogue

[warriorcatsobsession]

Redesigned my first two warrior cats ocs

They're sisters born in windclan

Racketmouth is considered to be really loud

And Nightshade is deaf

The two are practically in-sync with each other

I wanna write on their whole thing more but I'm definitely struggling a little on it. May share more ocs

[sadnessisavegetable]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I did little pinups for Ghirahim because it deserves to do it. One is femme and the other is masc because how could I not? This thing shapeshifts, so it can be whatever it wants.

I have so many ideas for today, I may have a backlog of Valentine’s Day art into tomorrow lmaooo. We’ll see.

And yes, I censored as best as I could from my originals without ruining it because I am bold, but I am not tits and nips out bold.

[myartsing]

Devotion <3

[backpackingspace]

okay obviously hau cheng is like prime character to be covered in tattoos but have we considered xie lian with tattoos??? Because I cannot stop thinking about it

[bijoumikhawal]

Coptic lesbians (inspired by @felrija's work)

[foxgloves-garden]

I FOUND A BOOK

Look what we got from the library!!! Look at it! Look!

Now that we have The Book, there's no stopping us. You will all be drowning in words and grammar and scripts >:D

But seriously. If I had a flappy hands emoji, I'd be using it right now.

[j-esbian]

frustrating how so many craft books have a section about "how to sell what you've made"

like on one hand i get it because the person writing the book has obviously made their craft a full-time job. and they might have some tips and tricks that might be useful, and there are people out there who might be trying to start a small business out of it

but on the other hand it's just exhausting and feels like another voice saying "what's the point of having a hobby if you're not going to monetize it"

[ringneckedpheasant]

[tsunflowers]

book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

[aeniith]

Dec 27 of #Lexember. Today’s word is for ‘vice, clamp’.

This could be either a ring clamp like below…

…or a screw vice like this.

[divorceconnoisseur]

VARIATION AND CHANGE OF LANGUAGES IS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG