Delightful vowel harmony here

still thinking about the ice sluice

In truth I was imaging like Ow Gd, hwz Nym z ’kslnt n ol ð əþ, nd ðy Glory ’bv ð Hvnz; hw n ðs dy ddst mrklsly przəv wə Cəc nd Styt frm ð sykrt Kntryvns nd hlʃ Mls v ð Pwpʃ Knsprtəz; nd n ðs dy olsw ddst bgn tw gv s ə myty Dlvrns frm ð wpn Trny nd ’prʃn v ð sym Krwl nd Bldþəsty Enmyz;

Feeling like it would work better as an abjad or abugida

By the way there are a couple reasons for the changes. One is that this systematizes something I had previously noticed, often agreeing with the old rule (one big exception is the suffix -ation)

I updated the dictionary last night, and it makes a significant change to syllable boundaries: stressed syllables have as many consonants as possible and unstressed syllables have as few as possible

They took away my riffing license

#小石川植物園 #tokyo #photography #nikon #Z5

How mad would you guys be if I spelled schedule so it rhymes with gradual?

I should write something good in rook script

Not exactly scientific but I think my vowel space looks something like this (ignoring nasalization)

The way I say “withdrawal” (with.droh.əl) is not long for this world

I want to revisit my #shavian critique with some more considered thoughts now that I’m a little more familiar with the history

Routinely torn between whether spelling should reflect something deeper than pronunciation or not

I did some research and I’m going with a more modern analysis. The shapes for ɪː and ɵː still need some work but this is close

Phonology won’t sit still

Needs some work but here’s one possibility

A2426.2.8 Why dove coos.

If there were a British rook script, I think the syllable boundaries would look different

the birds have drawn you a map. go now and take great care

Wait Xul Solar was a real person??

I’m curious if there are any Americans who say /həˈmɑtəpi/ or if that’s just a British thing

Considering spelling this ri.mout

Happy holidays

Kind of neat watching Josh O’Connor toggle effortlessly between /riˈmout/ and /rəˈmout/

The word “immediate” is bugging me. The first syllable feels unstressed which should mean the vowel has to be ə but I genuinely say /ɪ/ a lot of the time. So I have to spell it im.iid.ii.​it except that the m sounds like it’s in onset. It’s definitely not im.miid.ii.​it though, there’s no gemination

Watch suet feeders for woodpeckers: downy, hairy, pileated and red-bellied.

The bible should have been written in rook script

sewr. Classic

fuck you, got mine #art

Is the th in “clothes” silent? I literally can’t tell

I thought this was a nice blog post. I’ll be mapping my own vowel space 🔜

Revisiting “address (n.)” again because I’ve learned and changed a lot since last time

wind is tousling the mane, double rainbow, then a warm rain descends

I realized something about words like “review” where it’s usually but not always a weak vowel in the first syllable

Dark souls font GANE AGLEY

A lot of you don’t seem to understand the importance of this image

Vera Evstafieva, Cyrillic calligraphy, Cambridgeshire, 2021⁠ ⁠ Gift of @infonta.bsky.social. ⁠ #calligraphy #VeraEvstafieva #lettering #typography #graphicdesign #script #handlettering ⁠

One time I filled a sheet of paper practicing the word Borges and my friend grabbed it and showed it to everyone like I was Jack Shining

Needs some work but handwriting would look more interesting if letters were slightly different sizes. Inspired by this shot from Oldboy

I just remembered why I have short strokes moving away from the direction of writing in vowels lol. The reason was not very good

my new image

How do you guys say mancala? Is it like mank-ala? Or like man-cala? Does one of them sound wrong?

Clueless White Guy Orders in Perfect GenAm, Shocks Linguists

I may change the spelling of the “ity” suffix from ə.tii to it.ii. There’s no overwhelming reason to prefer one or the other but having t in the coda would distinguish it from the aspirated t of “manatee”