#gereorde

[thegaylinguist]

¿alguien quiere hablarme en español? me falta práctica

[thegaylinguist]

i made my first conlang with just masculine vs. feminine genders since 2012 i think today

usually if i have noun classes at all they're either simple animate vs. inanimate or smthg more elaborate (like a recent one w ambient vs. particular, or the system i love in a collablang w friend that goes NAT vs. HUM vs. ZOO vs. OBJ vs. ABST — i can elaborate if ppl are interested). a simple masc vs fem gender system à la romance i (generally) find so boring to me conlang-wise

but what i did in my conlang today was "masc vs. fem but make it really funny" & strictly etymological, with some funny semantic shifts. so "mother" & "father" are grammatically the opposite gender you'd expect due to etymology. "husband" and "wife" are both masculine, while "son" and "daughter" are both feminine (but "child" is masculine). "nonbinary person" is masculine while "agender person" is feminine. "he" & "she" are homophones but spelt differently

[thegaylinguist]

i made my first conlang (since 2012 i think) with just masculine vs. feminine genders today

usually if i have noun classes at all they're either simple animate vs. inanimate or smthg more elaborate (like a recent one w ambient vs. particular, or the system i love in a collablang w friend that goes NAT vs. HUM vs. ZOO vs. OBJ vs. ABST — i can elaborate if ppl are interested). a simple masc vs fem gender system à la romance i (generally) so boring to me conlang-wise

but what i did in my conlang today was "masc vs. fem but make it really funny" & strictly etymological, with some funny semantic shifts. so "mother" & "father" are grammatically the opposite gender you'd expect due to etymology. "husband" and "wife" are both masculine, while "son" and "daughter" are both feminine (but "child" is masculine). "nonbinary person" is masculine while "agender person" is feminine. "he" & "she" are homophones but spelt differently

[thegaylinguist]

pardon me, google?

i guess...

léoðcræftig monn éac lolcræftig sceal

a man skilled in poetry must also be [skilled] in lols

[thegaylinguist]

in about 10m i'll be streaming me reading from an old kingdom egyptian stela, if anyone is interested in tuning in here

disclaimer: i'm a linguist specializing in germanic philology & indo-european comparative linguistics. i'm not an egyptologist — this is just for fun

[thegaylinguist]

made an extremely niche meme

[thegaylinguist]

language tag

i was tagged by @shineesltm

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i tag anyone who's studying languages rn (so probably most of my followers to some capacity) so go for it!

[thegaylinguist]

so in light of all this tumblr destruction, where do you think people will be able to go for info on that lgbt conlang you were making a while back? idk if you're still progressing on it or anything either maybe i'm super out of the loop in that area and you quit that a while ago who knows

+ ANON: so what ever happened to that lgbt interlang y'all were making? it seemed like a very good idea–is it still going strong or has it been discontinued?

the good news is YES, we* are still working on the LGBT+ inter/conlang

most of us have been very busy with Life stuff (eg i’ve been struggling w housing, employment, debt; many of us are students, &c), but in the past few months we’ve been going through cycles of a few weeks of lots of productivity & then a few weeks (like rn) of hiatus

i know many people are excited about it (SO ARE WE!) so i will give a little bit of an update on where we’re at:

at this point we mostly consider the interlang itself “done”; the main work rn is making as many (ACCESSIBLE!) resources as possible before we “debut” the interlang:

while the main writing system is just gonna be the 10 letters out of the roman alphabet the language uses, we’ve also made some optional scripts – one aesthetically-motivated syllabary, a shorthand alphabet based on the syllabary, & a Braille-inspired system

we’re almost done with a big dictionary with example sentences (we only have 1 letter to go!) - this is the Biggest Thing rn

we have a 4-page quick-phrasebook geared towards basic conversation, & we’re working on a 2nd one that focuses specifically on LGBT+ identities & culture

we have an outline for a textbook we plan to flesh out as soon as the dictionary & phrasebooks are done

we’re working on a small series of mini-articles in the language on important LGBT+ figures throughout history

we have some LGBT+ children stories & folktales translated into the language for reading practice & we’re working on more

we’re drafting scripts for quick video/audio lessons

we’re working on some different options for vocabulary-practicing programs

eventually, we want to start a little LGBT+ newsletter in the language

i’m sorry i’ve been kind of silent about the language on here recently - i’ll try to post more frequent updates on where we’re at

honestly knowing other people are excited about this is what keeps us motivated!

*by “we,” i mean myself & the other linguists & language-enthusiasts who’ve been working together to make this language a fun & useful system to use for LGBT+ folks