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so it's the first day of classes and i cannot read my syllabuses. like almost at all. they're completely blurry, im sort of freaking out.

text on the computer is still mostly okay but the high-contrast freaking papers they hand out are going to kill me. im screwed. what even is this. the fuck makes it so u cannot read printed text what the fuck

#irrelevant*#actually this comp here at school was sort of bad until i turned the monitor brightness down#what the actual fuck#i had this problem a bit last semester but just#sweet jesus#what the fuck is this why is it getting WORSE#ok whining done im just#jfc.
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... ughhh i just realized the implications of taking an in-person class for a language that has grammatical gender when literally everyone i meet is confused by my presentation

#sdfjklsdfjkl#ich bin student; nicht studentin; ja?#if i took a spanish class i'd have to get a not-transphobic teacher somehow or... literally misgender myself the entire time....#ugh fuck i'd have to deal with the entire class.#i just want to learn a language this is why i couldn't keep taking ballet too goddamnit#irrelevant*
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Working on various scripts right now. Mainly the Abugida for Meśät, but my Lin script (used mainly to write English) has a lot of letter variations (i.e. there are two characters for T, two for W, a shared variation for both O and N, etc), so I think I might supplement it with characters inspired by various types of shorthand as well?

Some of my letter forms already happen resemble characters found in some shorthands, since one of my goals with Lin is for it to be easy to write fairly quickly, but many of the variant letters are still quite complex. Also, it lacks the letters Z and Q, and is likely to continue to lack them in perpetuity at the current rate, so.

eta: Letter frequency lists! Focusing on particular letters to simplify that are common in English and German should help things. It also looks like most shorthands kind of suck for my purposes, so... limited inspiration there. 

#irrelevant*#lin*#i've mostly given up on attaching Lin to a conlang#i think it works much better as a script for English since that is what it was designed for#perhaps German as well -- although I would need a Z.
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I made another breakthrough in my ability to pronounce [r]! ✿~*~✿~*

#for those who are new: i first gained the ability to make this sound at all... like literally ever... abt a year ago#after abt year of trying at if fairly consistently#irrelevant*#[r] progress*#im making a tag#i have moved from loud emphatic [ɾ]s to smth that does not require huge amnts of breath 2 make#this version sputters out somewhat less often. which is still a lot buuuut! progress progress progress
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i knew it! the word "children" was plural'd twice, see here. giggling forever.

#irrelevant*#natlangs*#im p sure the reason German still has ''Kinder'' is bc the system *has not* become less complex over time yes?#and the -re/er ending was more or less unique in all of English by that point#like -- just saying this is smth conlangs w/ *simple* pluralization systems may want to take note of lmao#your few irregular forms could potentially be Irregular As Hell#tokophobia cw#at link#pedophilia cw#ugh they mention that at link too
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