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Lingufacturer. Mead-maker. DIYer. Decolonizer. Fountain pen enthusiast. Thwacker of uncooperative technology. Purveyor of bespoke languages. Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki. /ʤəˈmɪn/ he/him 🇨🇦
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Hopefully I’ll grow into the space a little before long, but please let me know if there is particular content you’d like to see – or, conversely, that you wish I would stop posting about!
If you’d like to subscribe, I’d appreciate it (it’s free)! Even if you just sign up and filter it off to the bacon folder for now, having some followers will let me figure out how some of it works and what sorts of features are available.
I’ve set up a Substack where I can post some long-form, nerdier, less ephemeral content about #writing, #language, #conlangs, and maybe some other things like food, recipes, plants, or whatever other topics my AuDHD brain decides to hyperfocus on. lingufacture.substack.com/p/brandaje-m...
Thanks, this is helpful. That's a little disheartening about the Nazis, but sadly it's hardly even unusual among social media platforms lately. Anyway, I will probe a little more critically.
I’d like to do some cooking/baking stuff, too, but that might have to wait until I have a navigable kitchen. Any other sort of content you’d like to see on there? Any advice from experienced stackers? (3/3)
It seems to be a blend of the better parts of various social media platforms – but I haven’t really got a great sense of how it all works yet. It would probably be mostly #language, #linguistics, & #conlang content; maybe some specific stuff about Valthungian, Europic, and other pet projects. (2/3)
I’ve been thinking about creating a #Substack, since it seems like that’s what all the cool kids are doing these days. I like the idea of how it’s organized – blog/essay-style posts, shorter tweet-type notes, audio and video posts, the ability to block AI from reading your posts: (1/3)
I guess it will be a couple more days before we know if it's going to hit Nova Scotia, or any land at all for that matter. But based on this trajectory, it doesn't seem like it could miss us completely. It would be nice the bulk of it stayed out to sea and we just got some nice, soaking rain.
I know we need the rain, but this seems excessive.
NB: I have decided that the collective term for 'imp' is an 'impropriety'.
One day I will catch the imp who writes my footnotes.
I love a good dad joke! But I'm not a Soc'ul' dad, so as the proverbial dog says, "I guess I'll open this one!"
Do you know any jokes in your conlang(s)? Are they still funny in translation? Drop your best con-side-splitters below!
“Six?” the father exclaimed, “But I only gave you eight pieces in all to share with your brother! Can’t you count?” “Of course I can count,” the daughter replied. “But he can’t.”
Rough translation: A father quizzed his young daughter with a math question: “I buy ten pieces of candy and I eat two, then I give you the rest and tell you to split them with your brother. How many pieces of candy do you have left?” The daughter replied: “Six pieces.”
‘Raniso kanik reþin,’ anþahōf so dǭtra. ‘Ekis nē!’
‘Sǣs?’ rōðiða sa faðra, ‘Ekik gaf þis āta þatǣn, forðu ferǣgna miþam brōðra þīnin! Hwa ni kantu reþin?’
So dǭtra anþuroðiða: ‘Sǣs dǣlins.’
A Valthungian joke for you: Faðr’anþrúskiða fra rǣnina sīna dǭtra žunga: ‘Javik tǣjun swœutinins byǧa, jauguk tfōs ita, jāþna givik þis þa lif ja þik ǣkna, þū ižas miþskǣðna þam brōðra þīnin skylis. Hwǣjugas swœutinins ǣftu nǭþ?’ #conlang #conlangs #conlangjokes
Faugun Hauvahravist! Happy Lughnassadh! Not a bad day's work: Six gallons of pear cider, a gallon and a half of wheat beer, and a loaf of sourdough beer bread. It smells heavenly in here! I also made a pint of homemade non-dairy pistachio ice cream, but we ate it, so no picture!
Making some bread for Hauvahravist (Lammas/Lughnassadh) today. Why must the bread-baking cross-quarter always fall on the hottest day of the year?
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I had a bunch of other Revolution-themed posts, but I became unconscious and now it's the 15th. Anyway, these too: youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...
Where 𝘪𝘴 the Revolution? youtu.be/jsCR05oKROA?...
* There was the Glyndŵr Rebellion in the early 15th century, but it didn't really work out as planned, and wasn't really a people's revolution in the traditional sense, but if you want to nit-pick, here ya go.
Wales has never had a Revolution, as such*, but the Cymry have an inspiringly stubborn determination to continue to exist. They're still here, and so are you, but fascism has a very short shelf-life. Do what you can to make it even shorter. youtu.be/S_pjG1Tzx74?...
Remember who you're revoluting for. youtu.be/ClU3fctbGls?...
A word of warning to the clueless powers who will have the audacity to act surprised when people start revoluting against them: If you're a horrible person, don't be surprised if a Finnish witch casts a spell on you to make your own snakes bite you. youtu.be/_keS5CgpBT0?...
Have you sharpened your Wee Willie today?
Did you know the word guillotine comes from the name of French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin who proposed its use? Guillotin is a diminutive of the name Guillot, itself a diminutive of Guillaume, the French equivalent of William. So guillotine literally means something like “Little Willie.”
Join the revolution! youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw?...
Here's the cheerful ditty that started it all, from the fabulous Axelle Saint-Cirel at the Paris Olympics last year. Ya know... In case you're fields are getting too dry in this July heat. youtu.be/TzLzuSNj5Fs?...
Next on today's list of Songs to Revolute To, this classic gem from my dear friend Venus DeMars: youtu.be/GnOT6-VjGZk?...
It's not that much different. I still just make my own here. The cider is quite nice, though!
Let's kick things off with one of the first cries for revolution my generation remembers hearing firsthand: youtu.be/Xv8FBjo1Y8I?...
Today is the 236th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, kicking off the French Revolution after people eventually had enough of their government's crap. I'm going to be obnoxious today about posting some revolution-inspired links. Check 'em out, share, add your own, rise up, resist & revolt.
‘Is this watery piss what you people call beer in this country?’ #Valthungian: Hwa hit hran uvgútna ist þetit jūs þjuða inhitma gœ̄ža bjus nemniþ? #Europic: Kwa tci-la pisu vakwa se ke-kwasu tuyaru namoge da byeru no tci-la jiyu? #UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries
The word gapīča comes from the verb gapīčin ‘to pinch together’. Though usually referred to in the plural (like ravioli), a single one is a gapīke.
They are sealed on the top, then at the ends, and finally the "corners" are pinched flat (see the finished gapīča on each end of the row below), creating a sort of fish-tail ideal for catching the tarragon cream sauce they are traditionally served with.
Gapīča are a traditional Valthungian dumpling usually containing sausage, bleu cheese, and asparagus or peas.
A nice Valthungian idiom: Þeni gapīča wriškunþ an basiðram. Literally, ‘When gapiča grow on berry bushes’ - pretty much equivalent to "When pigs fly." #Conlang #ConCulture #ConCuisine
‘Stop laughing and bring me the menu for tourists.’ #Europic: Kedetu na likracu wake kwetu da mu na la mandja-listu we vidata-vresantu. #Valthungian: Kwink a þlǣšin ja bring mis þa bisœučins matirǣgistra. #UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries
@terryo1971.bsky.social and I are kicking off our anniversary weekend in Annapolis Valley with a visit to Church.
#UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries ‘What do you mean there’s no peanut butter in this country?’ #Europic: Kwayo povacu heste ke raha-pastu ne ste no tci-la jiyu? #Valthungian: Hwē istim mǣtiko þīm nīn þnang reðnutis n’ist inhitma gœ̄za?
An interesting thing about this is that both languages have a sort of “indirect imperative” – the Europic suffix -de and the Valthungian verb tœuǧin – which would usually translate as something like “have something done.” (I feel like there was a specific name for this that I’ve forgotten.)
#UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries “There’s a corpse on the bed. Please have the sheets changed.” #Europic: Morta-korpu ste pi-vi tci-la legru. Ye-brane ka-morfe-de na la legla-drapru. #Valthungian: Im ist nǭs inþiža hēþin. Þikfeša tœuǧin þa ligrawaste aftrarǣðiþ.
#UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries “Do you have a room with fewer rats?” #Europic: Kwa dra kombru se me flantoza ratu? #Valthungian: Hw’imist elia hēþia miþ mitnumam rātum?
@terryo1971.bsky.social jagik gistradagis bi Lunenbrogis Tuiðin in Bryǧagua, Skōte Njuža.
In today's episode of Academic Shitposting, I offer you this magnificent sentence:
LOL I noticed a translation tip for "French Gaelic" on the side... I'm pretty sure what I meant to say was something about "rare dialects of French and Canadian Gaelic" (which are both real things here), but somehow it came out as "French Gaelic or Canadian." 🤣
Hey, I was in a thing! lingo.360.cymru/2025/dysgu-c...
Han ist atkwomna sa tīma.
I just made one of those delightful discoveries in Valthungian that begs to become a folk etymology: Worcestershire Sauce is a pretty straightforward borrowing as wrostraskīra, which translates literally as "sausage explanation."
It's beautiful!
🤣 exactly
It is.
I made a pot of rice and tried to make some kind of "spicy tuna bowl," but it only helps a little bit. This is revolting. Someone must have screwed up. There's no way this is what they meant to send me, because of it is, it's criminal.
There's literally more than a quarter cup of spicy mayo here. I don't know what the California roll is for. Some kind of chopped up radish? The tuna is soaking in what I'm guessing is ketchup and soy sauce. This is extremely disgusting.
Haligonians: This is part of the new summer menu at Moxie's downtown. You have been warned
I don't often food-shame, but this is so bad I have to. This first picture is the spicy tuna roll I ordered from Moxies. The second is what the delivered to me. I don't know what's in all of those plastic containers, but you could try a thousand combinations and it would never be a spicy tuna roll.
Thanks! Honestly it’s just a template I made in Word that I export to a PNG file. I’ve heard there are some newfangled things that might be more efficient or simpler to use, but I’m old and I don’t wanna.
What's the point of creating your own #conlang if you can't use it to be snarky?
A fun Valthungian idiom: af ǣǧarǭsua tō 'from A to Z'
Beignet V.
🤣 It’s as close to Welsh-Welsh as I can approximate, but filtered through Jamin’s brain, so maybe a little of both…
Dw i’n mynd ar wyliau heddiw. Mi ddo i’n ôl ddydd Sadwrn. Os oes angen i chi arna i yn y cyfamser... arhoswch.
🐝🐛🦋🐞🐜🦟🦗🦂🕷🧈!
𝑴𝒖 𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒋𝒐-𝒌𝒆 𝒏𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒌𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒂. 𝑹𝒖 𝒌𝒘𝒊-𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒏𝒂 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒖 𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒂. #ConlangWithoutContext #LanguageIsResistance
#ConlangWithoutContext #SuckItAI #LanguageIsResistance
#Valthungian So māts imda miþís. #VulgarEuropean Ke la-practu se metu. #Maltcegj vreilǫnag ek pátax mélemok.
bjólet nad ubjályt kéiliþ! #maltcegjposting
I just heard someone refer to the Conservative Party of Alberta as the Bloc Redneckquois, and on a scale from one to even, I literally can't.
Fun fact: The collective term for woodlice is a quabble.
Sometimes I find myself shit-posting in my own grammars.
Useful Valthungian travel phrase: Java mik sčutistu, frœ̄ža sēl, genǧik bibǣbin spiulin balukwīsa an Yelp!
I don't post enough nonsense here. I'll try to be better about that.
Now that that's all over, I want to tell Pierre Poilievre to sit down and be quiet, but that would be mean, because he hasn't got a seat.
h/t to Welsh, where mochyn coed 'tree pig' can be a pinecone, a wood louse, or a wild boar... Context is important if one is running toward you!
While searching for a good example of the weird things that happen when historical /h/ appears in the stems of certain nouns and adjectives, I rediscovered one of my favourite Valthungian #conlang words! Pinecone = fir piglet.
I can tell you about it if you want to know, but it's a very specific flavour of nerdy and boring that probably won't appeal to anyone who isn't way into historical linguistics and etymology and phonology and probably also Gothic and Old Norse!
I just wander around from site to site. I'm on pretty much everything except Reddit and Twitter. I'm on discord, too, but - unpopular opinion - I hate it and I try to avoid going there as much as possible. It stresses me out.
I think I've *finally* deleted most of them. But I'm working on getting some of the better ones into a nicer format... Are you looking for a priori? A posteriori? Auxlangs? I have a variety of nonsense for all of your conlang needs! 😆
I hope everyone has a perfect date today! Don't forget your light jacket!
Proto-Germanic *i only existed in unstressed syllables, in complementary distribution with stressed *e. And “*ē₂” was just a long diphthong *ēi. I said what I said.
An Easter cartoon in Valthungian: “I don’t know where the eggs come from. And I don’t know why I keep hiding them.”
It's a good thing we didn't play this as a drinking game. We'd have been dead by noon!
That'll get you a few shares of Tesla stock. Then again, you're probably better off with some nice omelets!
Happy Times! #equinox
Thanks! I don't think I made it this year (because of the oppressive, echoing silence), but maybe next year...
Por miaj kunulaj GenX-anoj, kiuj ankoraŭ sopiras Roxette! La morto de Marie Fredricksson ankoraŭ forte trafas min. Ĉiuokaze, jen via orelvermo du jour: youtu.be/XTUeA43fNAU
Mwydyn clust y dydd:
No, we're still here. Everything is just kind of... a lot right now.
I've been on an English embargo over in Zuckspace, so now yethren have to deal with my various earworms here, too. This is what New Brunswick sounds like:
I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this formula today, but here ya go! #ElbowsUp
Tetris... Efficiently stacking boxes? Smuggling, I guess.
Ru go ne klono-de na doru; sti-ke ru kraspe pe pristopru, Kye-ste-de na krudu vi klarvasta-vopru, Be-ke primblu rondi kri-brompe na ra podopru. #VulgarEuropeanPosting
As a student of Welsh and Swedish, I would pay someone a thousand dollars to write a virus that would permanently break any kind of autocorrect from changing i to I. (I know that's not a lot, but I'm poor. I can also supplement it with baked goods.)
Awesome! Hope to see you there!