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nonascii alphabet at @Satsuma’s request

a (ǎ) (ą) [å] c d e (ě) (ę) ə f [g] ƣ h i į j ꜭ [k] l ꟛ m n ŋ o ǫ ȣ [ȣ̌] [ȣ̨] p r s ß t u [ų] v w [x] ɣ z ʒ ɂ æ (æ̌) (æ̨) (æ̊)

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ascii alphabet

a (a1) (a2) [a0] c d e (e1) (e2) 3 f [g] 9 h i (i2) j 4 [k] l b m n q o [o2] 8 [81] [82] p r s 6 t u [u2] v w [x] y z 5 7 _ (_1) (_2) (_0)

this holiday season having big “the decisions you make now as a young couple in your late 20s and early 30s will determine the traditions you hold dear for the rest of your lives” energy tbh

(the problem wasn’t actually /zʕ/ per se but rather that it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from /ʑʕ/; merging the two allows me to force /ʑj/ in all cases while keeping /zʕ/ before low vowels)

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this due to X (/ʕ/~/χ/) lowering the following vowels and Y (/j/~/ç/) raising them, which also resulted in the two merging to a single medial with as many as FOUR different pronunciations depending on the surrounding sounds

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here to report that my conlang has sufficiently progressed to the stage of having words whose gender* cannot be determined from their shape and which may be the opposite of what one expects

* grammatical gender in the sense of having two morphological classes of word**; conlang does not feature natural gender

** it’s not really gender but rather vowel harmony that has gone thru some shit

post malone saw a clodsire and was like. “whale”.

you mean to tell me the point of photorealism in video game characters WASN’T phrenology??

this doesn’t excuse people living their lives in ignorance of the HTML spec tho

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html is a programming language but it shouldn’t have been

i do not want to “send zzz with bloom” i want to sleeping face emoji why did you do this

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can’t believe apple broke text suggestions in messages so that when you type zzz it no longer suggests 😴

true we do go to bed naturally late but we still only take 1AM showers for one reason

can’t believe i wrote a poem like

encounter with
noble creature of legend

her wilderness did
run me through
free of fear

and @aescling was like “i don’t want that i want steppy”

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