A careful study of the world around you will pay handsome dividends when, as today, you discover the theme from ConWorkShop is Science. There is the scientific method to describe, the tools used, the people who do the sciencing, and of course the ever-increasing number of disciplines and branches and interdisciplinary approaches of science. ha… Continue reading Lexember 6 (2024)
Category: Language
General linguistics discussion, very serious and scholarly. As well as Stupid Language Tricks.
Lexember 5 (2024)
What is fun? That question has as many answers as there are people trying to answer it. Words that are fun to say is today's theme from ConWorkShop, and everyone is of course entitled to use her own definition of 'fun' and 'fun to say'. One kind of fun is the overthinking of straightforward things.… Continue reading Lexember 5 (2024)
Lexember 4 (2024)
Add colour to your life, with today's ConWorkShop theme: Things that are or can be yellow. One thing that can be yellow is the stock market. When prices fall, the stock market turns yellow, like nature in the dry season. And when prices go up, the stock market turns green, like nature when the rains… Continue reading Lexember 4 (2024)
Lexember 3 (2024)
And like magic, a new theme appears from ConWorkShop: Words that appear on Magic: The Gathering cards. Today I didn't write a sample sentence because the random card I got had some words already written. The card was 'Filigree Familiar'. [yuvatapupesenohu]filigree-home-demon.NOMFiligree Familiarteñoroyaya ~ revi:artefact-creature.NOM || fox.NOM ||Artifact Creature — Foxsoo [yuvatapupesenohu] turikave niyi ta kaa… Continue reading Lexember 3 (2024)
Lexember 2 (2024)
Time to cultivate our language garden and grow some verdant vocabulary. Today's theme from ConWorkShop is Vegetables, spices and condiments. Now Rireinutire already has some words for these - how could it be otherwise for a language spoken on a different planet - but there's always space for some more. As it happens, the Rireinutire… Continue reading Lexember 2 (2024)
Lexember 1 (2024)
When beginning a new endeavour, it is prudent to reflect on what you intend to achieve. To help myself and my fellow Lexemberists in this, the good folks at ConWorkShop have chosen Mirrors and self-reflection as today's theme. Sometimes there is a Rireinutire word that can easily be expanded to correspond to more Human words.… Continue reading Lexember 1 (2024)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Lexember
Fig. 1. A fine display of Lexember cheer. Gather round, children, while Auntie Prettydragoon tells you about the magic of Lexember. As the name Lexember suggests, the idea is that during the month of December, you add one word a day in the lexis, or vocabulary, of your language. Just like last year, I intend… Continue reading It’s beginning to look a lot like Lexember
Rireinutire noticed
It was a great honour that I was shown when the users of ConWorkShop.com voted to recognise my language Rireinutire with the 2024 Hashi Award in the category Best A Priori Conlang. I am honoured and delighted, and I will try to show the confidence of the voters was not misplaced. To that end, I… Continue reading Rireinutire noticed
Lexember 2023 and Me
To begin with, I'd like to thank ConWorkShop for their daily themes. They are a great aid in creating words, whether you choose to follow, subvert, or ignore them. It's always easier to create if you have something to react to. In total I created 66 words for Rireinutire in connection with the ConWorkShop Lexember… Continue reading Lexember 2023 and Me
Lexember 31 (2023)
Better to go out with a bang than a whimper. The final ConWorkshop daily theme of Lexember 2023 is celebrations. The typical way of forming a well-wishing phrase in Rireinutire is sumu 'auspicious' followed by the cause of the wishes in vocative case. There is nothing preventing one from running it all together as one… Continue reading Lexember 31 (2023)
Flowering Fields 