Finally updated my personal web site to use https. It's now safe to do your banking there. Thank you for your patience.
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Finally updated my personal web site to use https. It's now safe to do your banking there. Thank you for your patience.
Dreamed that I was being pursued by a telepathic enemy, who could see and hear everything that I did. I asked my dream-mother, "where can I go where they won't find me?", and she told me to live wandering the shoreline, away from towns and streets
For this month's 2-Hour Game Jam Club I present: The 'Lingulodinium Polyedra' Heist
inthescales.itch.io/the-lingulod...
Made this bitsy fable, The Labors of Duck, for this month's 2 Hour Game Jam Club
inthescales.itch.io/the-labors-o...
Those are all broad fields, but I think they can give you some ways to understand what a particular language is like, and the lines along which languages can change and influence each other
For topics, beyond individual sounds there’s phonotactics (how sounds are arranged in a language). And for other structural elements of a language besides sound, you can look into morphology (how words are built up from parts) and syntax (how words are used together).
English is my focus and I know less about language contact in general, but feel free to DM if you want to discuss more
Being familiar with how sounds are classified will help make sense of sound changes, since they tend to apply to categories of sounds.
This wiki article and its sub-articles give some good examples of the kinds of sound changes you might encounter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonolo...
Some phonology might be a good starting place, to get grounded in how linguists conceptualize sounds. Peter Roach's 'English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course', cheap on ebay, gives some introduction with English as a familiar case study. Wikipedia has some good phonology articles too
Many English surnames come from a profession or personal quality of their original bearer. For example, if your last name is Man or Mann, one of your ancestors may have been a man
Thank you for offering! I think it would be a lot of work though, so I'd start by looking for any existing pronunciation lists — sometimes academics put these things together and publish them
Ah yeah, you're stuck with General American for the moment I'm afraid. I would like to add more accent options sometime, if I can find good data for it
Hmm, I'll give that way of analyzing the phonemes some thought whenever I get back to this. In the meantime, depending on what you want to do you might be able to use the ligature system if you want to have a separate character for other vowels + r. Glad you like it!
This is online now if you wanted to try it:
inthescales.com/pages/spellk...
Screenshot of a web page. A table of English sounds with letters and letter combinations next to them, and a short text written in the typical style, and then again converted into the new system.
Here's what I've been working on this last month: a web tool for designing spelling systems for English.
If you've ever been frustrated with how hard it is to spell and read English, now's your chance to fix it.
inthescales.com/pages/spellk...
hmm
hydra.ojack.xyz?code=dm9yb25...
Page with the title "English Spelling", above a medieval illustration of an angel rescuing little naked people from hell, depicted as the fanged and fiery mouth of a giant beast
I love how Firefox puts a big NOT SECURE warning by my personal web site's URL because it's http://
Do NOT do your banking on my web site everyone
Fullscreen hydra in browser and then drag my actual thing over it in a smaller window, nice and easy
When I present projects now I always want to come up with a little Hydra animation to use as a background. Feeling pretty pleased with this one for Thursday
hydra.ojack.xyz?code=b3NjKDU...
I'm planning to get on the Wordhack open mic this Thursday to show my new little project, come check it out
www.wonderville.nyc/events/wordh...
install wizard? I sure hope it does
Do any word-coding types out there have a favorite way for getting pronunciations from written English words?
I've been using the CMU pronouncing dictionary for my current thing, but I have some frustrations with it, and ideally I could get British pronunciations as well as American.
Something I'm working on right now. I'll post a public version when it's cleaned up some.
Screenshot of just the text conversion input output of this page. A paragraph about the history of childhood education in Britain, rendered in a spelling designed to imitate German. For example, the "sh" sound is rendered s-c-h, the vowel in 'line' as e-i, etc.
what am i doing reinventing the wheel, our friends on the continent have already developed perfectly functional systems for writing germanic languages in the latin alphabet
Similar screenshot, converting text from the Wikipedia entry on Ronald Kingsley Read.
fuck i used a twice ok i'm fixing it
Screen capture from a roughly made web page. At the top, under a tab labelled "Custom", a form. Name: "English 2". A table with text fields representing each sound in English (US pronunciation) filled with one or two letters each. Individually they might appear conventional, except for one stray umlaut and one incongruous double 'r'. Below, a button labelled "convert", a large text field pasted in with that speech from Macbeth with "full of sound and fury" and all that in it. Beside that box, an output of the same text converted into the spelling system detailed at the top, looking completely stupid (but phonologically consistent)
it's ok i'm fixing it
Making a little Peacock-centric gaming experience
Dogman95 by @ComputerJames.itch.io: https://computerjames.itch.io/dogman95
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