Sit up straight and show some spine! Today's theme provided by ConWorkShop is Vertebrates. Of course, the daily theme is just the bare bones, and it is the delightful duty of each participating conlanger to put some meat on the bones by employing her glossopoietic creativity. And as a vertebrate myself, I'm really getting a… Continue reading Lexember 8 (2024)
Lexember 7 (2024)
Time to run riot down Memory Lane, as the assiduous antiquarians at ConWorkShop dig down through layers of time in remembrance of things past and present Blast from the past (explosions, history, or both!) as the theme for today. As I sit munching on a madeleine and sipping my tea, I am reminded of the… Continue reading Lexember 7 (2024)
Lexember 6 (2024)
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)
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
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