#lexember Day 5: Hauifuu Sign "full" (mouthing from Knrawi "hau")

Today's four: air pocket uphill water mint malt, sprouted grain #neography

Day 96: بوط [buwat] womb From Proto-Artonian bawā < Proto-Mish balwā < PIE *welH-

I think it’d be extremely funny to propose an Anglo-Khinalug family based on nothing but this pair of aspiration alteration in words that otherwise should have nothing to do with each other semantically.

Today's four: onomatopoeia for bird chirping; chirp, tweet ideophone for rubbing candle peckish, slightly hungry #neography

Day 95: بط [bəta] swamp, marsh, wetland From Proto-Artonian betā < Proto-Mish betā < Proto-Celtic *wetā

#lexember Day 4: Hauifuu Sign "fingernail" (mouthing from Knrawi "qani")

“Vixi, risi, amavi” —wine aunt Julius Caesar

#lexember Day 3: Hauifuu Sign "mother" (mouthing from Knrawi "nana")

Today's four: weaving frame, loom coat, cloth armor, thick clothing, thick fur, wool wooly animal, animal raised for wool capybara #neography

Day 94: ببار [bəbaːr] hyrax From Proto-Artonian bebōr < Proto-Mish bebōr "beaver" < PIE *bʰébʰrus

Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA! (Seriously, read it. It's important) doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

If there are awesome Hmong country rock cassettes being made in Minneapolis, the talent is out there. youtu.be/ms9qtkaOpyc

[record scratch] “So you’re probably wondering how I got here . . . “

This is how they built the Library of Alexandria

Cornish language to receive part III status under European charter

#lexember Day 2: Hauifuu Sign "tree" (mouthing from Knrawi "sigi")

Today's four: to sort through, to pick through aphrodisiac berry to pick out, to pick off, to remove impurities elemi #neography

Day 93: دبن [bədən] ford, shallow water From Proto-Artonian badom < Proto-Mish badom < Proto-Italic *waðom

made hotdish, my fav Minnesota recipe

Yeah, why not spice up your book review with some SFX? 👍

The #lexember feed is relevant again!

Today's four: council, committee, representative government, republic sector, city block howler monkey lighthouse #neography

Day 92: اكو [ʔəkʷa] river From Proto-Artonian akʷā < Proto-Mish akʷā "water" < PIE *h₂ékʷeh₂

#Conlang Year day 336: Looks like the rest of the prompts for the year are just "do Lexember", so since I'm not doing FS for Lexember I'm gonna stop posting these Despite all the non-entries from it being geared toward kinds of conlangs that FS isn't part of, it was nice doing these

#lexember Day 1: Hauifuu Sign "rain, to rain" (mouthing from Knrawi "ma")

it is very cool how 'Good King Wenceslas' preserves the nasalised vowel lost from modern Czech Vaclav

“don’t buy a chicken sandwich from the homophobic restaurant chain” is easy to avoid but groceries and household goods? “boycott Amazon, Target, Home Depot — but maybe Kroger and Albertsons too. And always Wal-Mart” I don’t have infinite hours or health or money to “consume right”

Why should Tangut script be classified as chaotic evil? Here is one example: 𗡮𗵽 śwo² nllu² '美好, 端正, beautiful'. See the difference between the two? 😆 Source: shs.hal.science/halshs-00174...

Today's four: onomatopoeia for barking to avoid smooth proud #neography

Day 91: بلس [bəlsa] fall, autumn From Proto-Artonian balsā < Proto-Mish balasā < PIE *welh₃- Relevant song: open.spotify.com/track/7rSfEt...

#Conlang Year day 335: N/A

#ConlangNovember 30: My main takeaway from these has been that I should work more on the jargon end of FS's registers. Other than that, thanks @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social for making these, been a fun month

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

you don’t know somebody’s gender? congratulations by default everyone is just a little guy from now on unless specified otherwise

Today's four: sesame leprosy false sense of security eyeshadow #neography

Day 90: سهن [sahən] courtyard, platform, stage From Arabic صحن Relevant song: open.spotify.com/track/1k2pQc...

#Conlang Year day 334: See yesterday

#ConlangNovember 29: Today's been busy enough and recording the whole thing'd take a good chunk of an hour probably, so gonna take the free day

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Today's four: wax, seal kheríamm, a kind of short wide pot ideophone for annoyance, being annoying doer, committer (negative-connotation agentive in compounds) #neography

Day 89: شضن [ʃəlˤːən] knife From Proto-Artonian sel͈l͈om < Proto-Mish skeltlom < PIE *(s)kelH- Relevant song: open.spotify.com/track/24RN4x...

#Conlang Year day 333: See last year for the format I'll probably use this year

#ConlangNovember 28: "to say" (plus pronoun-incorporated forms) drive.google.com/file/d/1IVQ2...

Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.

Massachusett (Wôpanâak) Word of the Day: mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning” < extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/ Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here: www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...

tfw you reason out a probable word from the Greek/Latin/Chinese roots and it turns out to be the actual word (today it was "theophagy")

Today's four: to accidentally stain to swish tea, to slightly agree, to be on the fence but in favor of to regroup after battle, to decommission, to put out of use to spread disease, to be contagious #neography

Day 88: زما [zimaː] lake From Proto-Artonian leymō < Proto-Mish leymō < PIE *léymō Relevant song: open.spotify.com/track/1YWmqe...

#Conlang Year day 332: Not planning on doing Frangian Sign for this Lexember (planning on starting a new Pollasena conSL for it though so stay tuned)