Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts

January 31, 2013

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! :)


January 24, 2013

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.