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Every Instance of Pronouns in the United States Constitution

Posted 27 July 2022

So, some seemingly notable dumbass posted to Twitter that there aren't pronouns in the constitution, so, inspired, here we go. Every single instance of pronouns in the US consitution.

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Keywords: Language

Adventures in Conlanging - Electronic Cataloguing

Posted 06 December 2020

I like conlanging. Quite a bit, actually. To date, I've worked on no fewer than 7, with a few more that never quite got past the phonology and maybe some very basic grammar bits. Most of this has been done on paper, with notebooks upon notebooks dedicated to various conlangs I've worked on at various points in time. But writing dictionaries on paper can be... inconvenient, to say the least. It can be difficult to find a given word, figure out how similar a word is to an existing word, alphabetize things, or add stuff to an entry after adding others after it. So, for this reason, I prefer to do digital cataloguing. What follows here is some of the various systems I've used and my thoughts on them.

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Keywords: Adventures in Conlanging, Language, Software

English Writing Reform

Posted 19 August 2020

This is a subject on which I have thoughts. Shall we go over them?

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Keywords: Language, Proposal