Jamin

I'm working on two projects presently - a movie and a fantasy series - but thanks to the magic of NDAs that's about all I can say. The languages for the novels are almost done, though, and hopefully I'll be able to share more soon!

I don't know enough Mi'kmaw to gloss the sign, but the Valthungian is:
DEF.FEM.NOM.SG force COP-3SG.IMP COM-2SG.DAT, and
DEF.MSC.NOM.SG meal COP-3SG.IMP COM-2SG.DAT

The second best Canadian thing I've seen today: The airport at the northern tip of Newfoundland has airport code YAY and it is located in postal district A0K.

I'm not sure I understand the question.

By the way, my favourite example of the same phenomenon in Valthungian:
- So māts imda miþís. “May the force be with you.”
- Sa mats imda miþís. “You should have some lunch.”

Best sign at today’s rally against Twobit Timbit’s ridiculous provincial budget: This is the best example I think I’ve ever seen to illustrate the importance of vowel length in languages that have that distinction.

Kesalul = “I love you.”
Ke’sa’lul = “I cast you into the fire.”

Just got back from a weekend of looking at houses in Kentville and Canning, with a Saturday night interlude for Queer Curling at the Glooscap Curling Club of Kentville! Lots of fun, but my knees are not happy with me today.
#HouseHunting #CanadianThings

Has anyone tried Hey.cafe yet? It's an ad-free anti-data-collection home-grown alternative to Facebook and the other Big Bads, based in Canada. It went public yesterday. I haven't used it long enough to have much of an opinion about it yet, but it seems promising. If anybody's on there, I'm @Jamin.

New pet conspiracy theory: Generative AI learned spelling and punctuation from the Epstein files.

A native Italian speaker has informed me that "teschietti" sounds more natural, so I defer to their judgement!

What do you do when you have no orecchiette for the recipe you want to make, but you remember that you have a couple of silicon skull moulds?... I think I'm going to call them "teschini."
#PastaPosting #ConCuisine

Sorry, kinda in the middle of hockey season here.

#Lexember 24: arǧinto/siluvra ‘rentremblu/rentru’

Fiškas njutnaþ iža giulas forð’usþínsna ocsigenio ustam watrin.
‘Picu brute na brinkopru pro-ke ka-tire na kisemblu fra-no vakwu.’
‘Fish use their gills to extract oxygen from the water.’

Lexember 23: giula ‘brinku’
‘gill’ (plural form giulas ‘brinkopru ~ pair/set of gills’)

#Lexember 23: giula ‘brinku’

Ik þlenǧa hisdagis, þā ik komœuǧa sképia ga forðu miðgangna gistrisdagis tragœuǧa.
‘Mu hodji pudralye, layo mu ha vopre na logu komœuǧa pro-ke me-yite tra-gedju getra.’
‘I am feeling lazy today, so I created comedy to go with yesterday’s tragedy.’

komœuǧa (comœudia)
‘me-medju’
‘comedy’

#Lexember 22: komœuǧa (comœudia) ‘me-medju’

(*YMMV depending on your definition of ‘interesting’ or ‘funny’.)

then applied to new roots: medj- and gedj-, respectively. So, me-medju ‘comedy’ and tra-gedju ‘tragedy’. However, as with many classical calques, the prefixes are optional, and the adjective forms become medja ‘comedic’ and gedja ‘tragic’.

But the really funny* part is Europic. This is a little joke that Chrysanthi, the fictional future creator of the Europic language in 2097, sneaked into the corpus: The words for ‘comedy’ and ‘tragedy’ have been reanalyzed as classical borrowings com- ‘with’ (which becomes me-) and tra- ‘through’,

On the Valthungian side, the standard spelling is given, but there is also a “traditionalist” spelling for most words (recently) borrowed from Latin and Greek, so you might also see ⟨tragœudicus⟩. (Even the traditionalist spelling uses ⟨œu⟩ for Latin ⟨oe⟩ for reasons I won’t go into here.)

This one is interesting* in a couple of different ways:

#Lexember 21: tragœuǧikus ‘gedja’

Gažuka grējutungiška: “Þat hauðiþ swǣjugn’anþāft swa giula for kamilo.”
‘Dikatu grijica: “Tci-lasu he na lanta zemblu kwo brinkopru pro kamblu.”’
A Valthungian saying: ‘That makes as much sense as gills on a camel.’

Lexember 20: anþāft ‘zemblu’
‘rational thought, logic, reason, sense’

#Lexember 20: anþāft ‘zemblu’

Is tuswīslaða þa kronamilo wiðraða glekinsukra, usfánþu fetrin wresista his frǣjus.
‘Ru le ka-morfistre pulva-kurza dru pulva-sukru, wa-ke le me-kepe sulda-su drugista de tci-la mwaldu.’
‘He mistook the corn starch for powdered sugar, and invented the world’s worst pastry.’