Jonas Kahnwald's bestie

Liam : 22 : he/they heathen Cookie Chef | Quasi-linguist | Musiker

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Willkommen

Liam (aka Claire, Lemur)

likes: language, linguistics, music, architecture, skylanders, art, ásatrú, runes/ogham, urban planning, liminal spaces, men

languages: English & Deutsch

learning: 汉语, íslenska, norsk, gaeilge, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

I am obsessed with The Ritual and Midsommar, I love the trauma, travesty, and tragedy of it all. I do make these movies my personality.

What's in this blog?

Conlang updates

Dream journal

Culinary stuff

Brutalist architecture

Cyberpunk

Language learning things

Gay stuff

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just cast the fire spell. dip shit

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Conlang Update 9

I finally busted out a nice chunk of my base grammar!! I’ve worked on the phonotactics, more orthography stuff, and did some reworking on the pronouns, verbs, noun declensions, adjective declensions, and definite articles!

Pardon my sloppy tables below. I am making a cute little journal for my conlang and it fits the vibe. Eventually I will digitalize this stuff, but it feels good to hand write 😁☀️

Orthography

I’ve decided to change some of the spelling rules and letters that are in my language. I also reworked the romanization. I opted to use the Icelandic letters, Þ & Ð, for their respective sounds. I reduced the amount of letters in the alphabet. What I did was halve the vowels in writing because I had originally selected the vowels to come in pairs: strong & weak.

Strong vowels are proceeded by one consonant, while weak vowels are proceeded by two (of the same) consonant, in spelling. This goes for the alphabet and romanization. The left sounds are the strong and the right the weak.

Pronouns

I decided to drop the 4th person pronoun I had and stick with 1, 2, and 3 person. I also took away 3 cases for the sake of having less. The remaining ones are NOM, ACC, DAT, GEN, INS, and VOC. There is still one pronoun for the 3rd person and it does not change based on the gender of the noun.

Definite Articles

I changed my articles so many times. I landed on having definite articles but NO indefinite articles and no plurality in articles or nouns. Clarification can be made with numbers and measure words, which I will be working on soon! I was heavily inspired by German articles when making my own!

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Conlang Update 8

I finally have time to myself and my hobbies because I graduated culinary school!!! I can finally update and work on my conlang. So here’s what I have done.

Orthography

I’ve changed the script a few times since last posting. I wasn’t happy with the first iteration. It was pretty and aesthetically pleasing but I feel it did not fit the language in terms of functionality and design. This time I went simpler and was inspired by Slavic embroidery and runes!

As well as my characters, I now have all the names for the letters! I wanted to do this because I was inspired by Irish Ogham and how each letter represents a tree. In my conlang, each letter is a fruit, vegetable, or an herb!

I’m so excited to finally be working on this again. More to come!!!!

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Rock tumbling slurry looks so tasty :(

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Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!

We carved some pumpkins tonight!! I took the longest, as per usual. I decided to make a Chinese inspired dragon!!!!

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Conlang Progress Update - 7

Motivation

I have not been motivated for a while to work on this, but I finally found it! I did an internship over the summer, and I have another job now and school fulltime, but I will make slow and steady progress.

Prepositions

I made a preposition chart to help me visualise what I needed. These are just a few of what's to come. I was inspired by a Greek preposition chart that looked like this one.

Lexicon

I now have 101 words! I've been working on making names for countries and the continents as of now. I wanted to get creative with the names of continents, so I did a little research on pre-colonial continent names. I don't have word for Europe yet, because I am lazy but not lazy enough to transliterate it. Any ideas for Europe would be welcome.

Land Masses

Hilkharkus - Asia, literally "Silk March" or "Silk Region"

Krektïrnus - North America, literally "Turtle Continent"

Lækskeþarnus - Antarctica, literally "Cross Tundra" in reference to the Southern Cross constellation

Lïrïrëmus - Oceania, literally "Ocean Realm/Nation"

Måtïrnus - Africa, literally "Mother Continent"

Ræpïltïrnus - South America, literally "Jungle Continent"

Råkskeþarnus - The Arctic, literally "Bear Tundra" in reference the Ursa Major constellation

Tata for now <3

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I swear every toponym in the US is like

Butchering of the Native name

FREEDOMland

Random Lake

Washington

named after some Confederate general

New European City

Some white dude's name

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Sometimes we don't even add the new and just name it after a European city. Or a random place on the Middle East. And sometimes it's pronounced completely differently than the original place name.

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Most of the Southwest and Cali are Spanish names or calques of Spanish names.

Toponyms close to me include Ash (tree), Mercy, Butterfly, Lard, Lumber, The Baths, etc. but in Spanish. There's like 500 places that either are or mean Mountain (range) View for whatever reason.

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dude no

hebei river north

henan river south

hubei lake river

hunan lake south

beijing north capital

nanjing south capital

xijing west capital, old name for xi'an, western peace

dongjing east capital, this is tokyo altho that's named in reference to japanese things

shandong mountains east

shanxi mountains west

shaanxi mountainpass west (differs only by tone)

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Tag some people you'd like to know better. Tagged by @boxur

Last song: De Selby, by Hozier

Currently watching: nothing, just covinicing myself to watch Heartstopper and Red White & Royal Blue

Currently reading: Antígona, the greek story

Currently obsessing over: weirdly enough, nothing? Like, since December up until two weeks ago it was Six of Crows. But I don't have anything as of now, and it's bothering me

Tagging: @hummerous @hemlo-doggo @moa-broke-me @mrparable @robjectionable-content @tinkytonky @lilisouless @dafishaarnoldi

Ofc, no pressure, and if I haven't tagged you, you're still welcome!!

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Last Song: Left (feat. David Yazbek) - Sean Altman

Currently watching: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Only Murders In The Building

Currently reading: Harrow The Ninth - Tamsyn Muir, Nona The Ninth - Tamsyn Muir, Mort - Terry Pratchett, Ten Steps To Nanette - Hannah Gadsby

Currently obsessing over: The Locked Tomb.. a little bit. all the time. Good Omens.

Tagging: @vmark26, @pixelatedshinobi, @orthidork, @thelazybot, @ukrainian-groove-metal, @mr-trubbish, @scrungleinthejungle, @real-live-human, @hazerdouswaste, @fuckingtiredbitch

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Last Song: The Saint - Conro

Currently watching: Cunk on Earth

Currently reading: Absolutely nothing. Should really start Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett but I just haven't yet.

Currently obsessing over: Absolutely nothing again. I am blissfully focused on my own shit rn. In my element.

Tagging: @junadeo, @skylandersbf, @sadpurpleblood, @pseudesthesie, @shepherdposting, and anyone else who sees this.

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Last Song: So Long, ABBA

Currently Watching: rewatching Dark

Currently Reading: Dune

Currently Obsessing Over: König (COD), Wizard101, walkable cities and urban planning, The Forest (the game), the German Political System

tagging: @upsidedownsoup, @moonlingua, & @crackersncheese3

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why do men only watch movies at two different volumes?

so quiet you need subtitles

or

IMAX movie theater experience

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How can I decide on phonetic sounds for my alphabet?

Hello there! Thanks for the ask! :D

I assume you mean how do you assign your phonemes to your characters?

In that case I do it all by feel. If there’s a really cool letter I like and I want it to be the defining feature of the alphabet I usually assign it to one of the more common sounds in the language.

I often use certain shapes, themes, or motifs to signify certain phonemes. Here are some examples:

All liquids have boxy shapes as opposed to the other characters.

Voiced consonants always have a diagonal line.

Rounded vowels all have a U shape base.

Voiced consonants are flipped unvoiced consonants (I like using this sort of template).

This is not very naturalistic, which I don’t tend to go for most of the time. You could go all out and create glyphs that overtime were simplified and represented a phoneme in the word the glyph used to represent.

I hope this helps!!!

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Conlang Progress Update - 6

I haven't worked on much over the week. I am swamped with homework and work. Instead, I'll take this time to showcase what I o have that I have not shown yet.

Script

I decided to change up the script a little bit. Instead of intersecting lines I separated them. I feel as though it is more pleasing to the eye.

Pronouns

There are nine cases in my language. That might be a bit overkill, but I have simplified other parts of the language to compensate, I suppose. The cases consist of nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, benefactive, privative, instrumental, comitative, and vocative, respective to the chart below.

The 4th person pronoun acts as a general pronoun for indicative statements or in questions such as, "How do you say?". You would not translate as you in my language, you would instead use the 4th person pronoun. Similar to how German uses man in or French uses on. I don't really need the inflections of the 4th person pronoun, I got carried away.

For the 3rd person pronoun I decided to have one and not one for each grammatical gender because I would have seven 3rd person singular and possibly plural pronouns.

Grammatical Genders

There are seven grammatical genders. They are classified as such, food and plants, animals, nature, people, general/objects, place, ideas.

Examples of each

food and plants

Kïlæs - flower

animals

Kvïnïs - cat

nature

Mineres - mountain

people

Dïnas - person, man

general

Vilhamås - knife

place

Næirus - room

ideas

Såvntüs - sleep, rest

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𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩

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I'm finally meal planning

This week I made some really good dishes! Only one of them I have made before. I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone and cook more from my wonderful cookbooks.

Monday, I just whipped up a stroganoff!! I'm trying to like tempeh, but the texture is so off to me.

I ended up making horchata on Tuesday and it was so fun and so worth it. I will be making horchata CONSTANTLY now.

Wednesday, I made cashew kibbeh from my North African cookbook!!

On Thursday I was so tired and had a lot of homework to do so we ordered out. :/

Yesterday I made the char kway teow (炒果条) and it was SO DELICIOUS. I will be making this more often. I got the recipe from a vegan cookbook.

For dinner today I'll probably make the kapusta z grochem, which is a Polish comfort dish. It's super good and I made it for a polish friend one time, and they loved it.

This is how my cashew kibbeh turned out! I think I did pretty well without seeing any photos of what people do with the designs on top hehe

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Some pain is never forgotten. You will carry it for the rest of your life.

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