the reason the internet is so shit right now is that the job expectations of your average hobbyist website maker have been steadily increasing for the past two decades and nobody has time to maintain an interesting resource on the web for free anymore
i also had a dream that @aescling had strongly held beliefs about tagging. i didn’t quite agree with them so i spent some time browsing the internet for an essay i remembered reading previously. this involved looking at a couple of personal homepages with great design and lots of interesting thoughts and content, the sort which don’t really exist anymore in reality. alas, we have lost our way
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 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)
(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)
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
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
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