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HERE ARE 7 ENGLISH WORDS

Beard
Beast
Beat
Beautiful
Become
Bee
Beech

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my favourite thing about this conlang is the fact that one of its articles can really only be translated into English as “Tʜᴇ”

HERE ARE 7 ENGLISH WORDS

Bait
Barley
Battle
Be
Beak
Bean
Bear

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Arm
Ash
Ask
Aspen
Away
Axe
Bad

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all the conlangers on my feed: “fuck i don’t have a way to express ‘agape’”

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And
Angle
Annoint
Ant
Apart
Appear
Apple

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one of the more difficult conlanging problems is acquiring good lists of words with a reasonable semantic distribution so you don’t wind up with 50 words for travel but can’t talk about what you ate for breakfast, or whatever

so anyway i have some lists of words

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Above
Acquire
Agape
Alder
Alive
Allot
Ancestor

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can’t believe P·M·D R·R·T assigned me Pikachu

if you reply to someone like “blocked & reported”, understand:

• every server which follows you will fetch the original post

• none of the servers which follow you will receive the report

if you're wondering what this means it mostly means painter jeans and button flys

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yeah i’m the kind of age where i want to bring 90s fashion back

actually, W3C, i prefer to receive my updates through RFC 4287 Atom feeds

it is funny because i think @aescling and i have very similar jobs but also, from what i can tell, very different ones

i think this is a good thing, to be clear

i was a metadata nerd before i worked in a library but now i have the social scripts to narrativize it

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keep dreaming about work adjacent topics. i spend all day thinking about these topics so it makes sense, but also, how about not

all we have is their weird software detritus that we’ve picked up and repurposed for our own uses

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