THIS BLOG HAS MOVED

You can find my new and improved site here:

Thea van Diepen

(if I sent you here, my apologies. I'm still working on fixing all my links)

The Something Exciting is Now Here!

I was going to have a brand-new website all ready for today, with this week's blog post on it and everything.

Unfortunately, finishing it up is taking much longer than I thought it would, which means this website (and the new post) will be appearing sometime this weekend, and most likely tomorrow (Friday). I'll tweet about it and everything but, if you're the kind of person who manually checks this site for new posts, then I will reserve a space on here for you to let you know when the new site is available.

The new site is done, complete with this week's blog post!

*waves pom-poms, throws confetti*

You can go to it here:
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[The new home of Expected Aberrations!]

I can't wait for you guys to see the new site! It's quite attractive, if I do say so myself. :)

Video: So, You Wanna Make a Language?

On May 29th of last year, I did a webinar/workshop/thing on making up languages. It went really well, and it got recorded, which means I can share it with you all right here. I didn't put it up right away, though, because Google wanted my cell number before it would let me put up a video that was longer than 15 minutes onto Youtube, and I wanted to find an alternative to doing that.

Since I originally did the event on Vokle, I checked there today (finally) and discovered that there was an embed code for my video.

Well. That was easy.

*rolls eyes*

*shrugs*

I hope you enjoy and, if you have any questions, leave me a comment and I'll answer them as best as I can! :)

What Amateur Linguists Do For Fun

So, today I was totally going to write something serious and important or something, but then I got very distracted by playing around with a font I made yesterday. You see, yourfonts.com had a thing going on yesterday whereby you could make a font from your handwriting for free if you had the coupon code... and I had the coupon code.

The unfortunate thing is that I didn't have any time to immediately play with said font, because homework was eating my life (thankfully, I can say without sarcasm that it was the funnest homework I've ever done, because I got to try deciphering Chinese characters and figuring out which English words several Japanese loan words came from based on what they sound like. This may not sound like your cup of tea, but it is totally mine \o/), which meant that I didn't have time to play with it until today.

Today's Post Has Been Postponed...

...today got eaten by homework. I will put up the post tomorrow, and it will be awesome. *crosses fingers*

Also, I'm thinking that I should just change my posting day to Thursday anyways, because I've got this evening class on Wednesdays now and it's really been cramping my style here. Yes. I have decided. From now on, I'll be posting on Thursdays and it will be wonderful. *crosses fingers*

Anyways. See you all tomorrow!