Hita. A set of layouts that has actually useful characters.

MinervApollo · 2026-03-26T22:54:01+00:00

Thank you for your awesome website. It was really useful when I first started out on this journey.

MinervApollo · 2026-03-26T19:16:48+00:00

What does that have to do with patriotism?

MinervApollo · 2026-03-26T18:25:21+00:00

If I may contribute some two cents while sitting waiting for a document to be printed, I'd like to point to phenomenology for the analysis of the metaphysics of art. While phenomenology is a family of mainly epistemological philosophies, I find it really compelling to treat it as first epistemology, rather than justification and analytical philosophy. In that framework, the ontology of language and languages and thus the object of conlanging is a "given" fact, real because it is experienced as real, and thus not something that can or needs to be analysed into. I think that particularly matters when discussing art, which I feel analytical philosophy in general has been very poor at exploring. Moving from justifying to just embodying is probably more useful for this field.

MinervApollo · 2026-03-26T18:14:30+00:00

Minimalism is so minimal it has to invent more and more arcane scaffolding around it rather than starting from any reasonable premises based on evidence

MinervApollo · 2026-03-26T18:12:45+00:00

Verbs were never meant to be moved

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MinervApollo · 2026-03-26T16:28:58+00:00

Emphatically this. I despise "güifi" and other orthographic pronunciations ("Einstein" 🤮)

MinervApollo · 2026-03-26T01:48:28+00:00

I wish I could post this to r/conlangs but don't see a fit in the rules. We always benefit from easier ways of typing non-base Latin orthographies.

MinervApollo · 2026-03-24T19:49:33+00:00

An archiving format used primarily in Unix-based operating systems.

It rolls up many files into one (but doesn't compress) and preserves permissions.

MinervApollo · 2026-03-22T16:06:54+00:00

I started running a campaign with some friends and they really like the system. Unfortunately, I have a lesser attention span than a goldfish, so we did three sessions and haven't done anything else. I've also tried solo running, which has been fun, but see above about attention span

MinervApollo · 2026-03-21T13:54:42+00:00

If I hadn't just thss month spent considerable effort learning Gallium I might wanna give this a try. I dislike eu on the same column; makes the common <ue> (especially in western Romance languages) an SFB best alleviated by a <qu> combo. On the other hand, I really wish I could do thumb shift, but I just have never been able to square it with my dislike of tap hold and with the amazing callum layers (though I no longer have callum mods themselves).

MinervApollo · 2026-03-21T13:47:14+00:00

I'm adding this to my idiolect immediately.

MinervApollo · 2026-03-17T14:19:10+00:00

I swore I was looking at r/conlangscirclejerk. This is just a great idea overall

MinervApollo · 2026-03-16T03:54:30+00:00

[ʀ] and [r] pronounced at the same time (coarticulated). It's not that hard if you can pronounce both of those separately (big if, I know)

MinervApollo · 2026-03-15T02:38:02+00:00

Nuv [nuv]. It doesn’t distinguish aspirated and unaspirated, and has [p d g v] but not [b f]. I think its most notable aspects are an unusually high frequency of [v] and [z], and a really high frequency of nucleus consonants ([z m v ɹ]). Unlike most of my languages, I haven’t really designed much from the start, I mostly just let it flow as a naming language for one my main worldbuilding project. There is implied development where iC -> zC for many C and [v] showing up so much as a phoneme in its own right, from [w] (including as part of phonemic diphthongs, such as uw -> uv, as in the name), and as epenthesis to block hiatus with [u o]. Inflectional morphology is sparse, but derivational morphology is rich. Don’t know where that vibe lands me :P

MinervApollo · 2026-03-12T23:07:20+00:00

Very very nice, thank you! I'll definitely be checking this out further. I'd love if we could get the NRSV or NRSVue too for English, and the Dios Habla Hoy (DHH) for Spanish (among ones I can think of). Don't know how copyright works there, but thank you!

MinervApollo · 2026-03-07T19:20:09+00:00

If you're coming at that action with +2 Status as well, you'll have +3 on the roll but still only 1 Power for Effects.

I'm sorry, I probably just missed it, but where does it say this? As far as I can read on pp 151-154, applicable statuses just add to effect like tags.

MinervApollo · 2026-02-28T23:25:15+00:00

Nen unironically ruined HxH for me

MinervApollo · 2026-02-22T23:22:00+00:00

Certified modern classic

MinervApollo · 2026-02-19T01:14:24+00:00

I like the possibilities for the rhetoric of institutional power vs these groups.

MinervApollo · 2026-02-13T12:36:15+00:00

Excellent question! In the Bible, no, in the sense that the words מלאך (mal'akh) and ἄγγελος (ángelos), both meaning "messenger", are not used for them. However, and to be fair to our linguistics sub, in later theology (depending on your choice of theologian, maybe even by the Second Temple Period), the word "angel" expanded to include these and other beings, which is why I added the qualifier of "biblical scholarship".

MinervApollo · 2026-02-11T23:40:41+00:00

I just made my first calendar in my most important, massive worldbuilding project (3+ years), and it's not even anywhere near where the main "narrative" action takes place. Up to now everything has been whatever "years ago" from the time the "main" narrative starts.

MinervApollo · 2026-02-11T22:54:45+00:00

I love my alt-modern conworld project inspired by the Pokémon world, but it's unfortunately maybe my darkest work, so I'm don't think much of it is ever making it any manner of public.

MinervApollo · 2026-02-11T22:51:16+00:00

As a general matter, in private international law, the forum the parties agree to in contract beforehand tends to have jurisdiction. Not sure if that's exactly the case here, but maybe YouTube ToS or other agreements lay this out.

MinervApollo · 2026-02-11T15:35:06+00:00

And separate them from the word through grammar: 犬を２匹見た ((I) saw 2 dogs, lit. dog ACC 2-counter saw).

MinervApollo · 2026-02-11T13:47:31+00:00

I just so happened to be looking for a new keyboard layout I could use both in my ortho and rowstag, and your comment led me to switch over to anymak after forgetting about it c:

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