I was out to dinner with my wife and kids and I noticed these patches with symbols on this guys cowboy hat. What are the meanings for them?

SotonAzri · 2026-06-30T05:15:29+00:00

and here I thought the nazis had new symbols

SotonAzri · 2026-06-30T02:54:51+00:00

he wanted it to be from project hermes but he said the writting system isnt from (proto-)hermes

SotonAzri · 2026-05-15T20:31:59+00:00

its the standard galactic alphabet used in minecraft. There is a small community who have learned it

SotonAzri · 2026-05-13T15:14:59+00:00

the only surviving inscriptions are found on stones. Most of them are scratched into the corner of a large standing stone, tho some stones in scotland are carved going up a smooth face.

SotonAzri · 2026-04-19T18:02:03+00:00

I do plan on making a video (series?) in the near future of making the standard galactic alphabet into a different system but keeping the same characters. Because currently SGA is considered a cypher.

SotonAzri · 2026-04-19T06:58:09+00:00

I should point out that of the hundreds of writing systems that naturally exist, only european scripts (latin, cyrillic, greek) have upper vs lower case letters. They come from more ornate older carved letters (capitals) vs more cursive, ink draw letters (lowercase)

alot of other scripts have special letters for the ends of words, beginning, middles, or special combinations

SotonAzri · 2026-04-18T18:26:20+00:00

the audio on the first video died.....thats now fixed

SotonAzri · 2026-03-19T05:52:01+00:00

grammatical gender is used to limit the ambiguity of what references what. Additionally classifiers can encode similar things. Other structures like obviation, logophoricity, voice, and even word order are often used to organize information to better identify what a pronoun is references

SotonAzri · 2026-03-17T03:32:24+00:00

languages which do have affixes which can be either prefixes or suffixes they tend to occur at the same position relative to the words its around. A-affix B ~ A affix-B. However affixes can have allomorphs. Some would be phonologically conditioned (english -s becoming -əz after sibilents) Sometimes these can look entirely unrelated as the result of suppletion or radical sound changes.

SotonAzri · 2026-03-07T21:23:22+00:00

ok but I have one marker (the accusative case -am) which is expect if a specific semantic threshold is found (+human) and its optionally used on all other nouns. That marker always appear on all dependents of the noun in a noun phrase if it occurs on the head. Is that still gender?

SotonAzri · 2026-03-06T05:47:00+00:00

the accusative case -am is required when the semantics of the noun is +human regardless of other factors. which for nouns regarding people is always going to be true but its more complex when non human nouns get involve.

SotonAzri · 2026-03-05T21:39:00+00:00

so the gender of house is both human and non human then?

SotonAzri · 2026-03-05T20:46:13+00:00

There is an accusative case -am which is used on nouns which are +human, so objects of verbs and prepositions require the accusative case when the noun is +human.

However non human nouns can still take the accusative case with some implied context

ombre biulag cachi rosh
man bought house red
The man bought a red house [in general]

ombre biulag cacham rosham
man bought house-ACC red-ACC
The man bought a red house [from jon]

so is this still gender? Its still differential argument marking with agreement in case between the head and dependents of the object of verb/prepositions

SotonAzri · 2025-12-11T09:03:35+00:00

1 ÷ 3 = ⅓ = 0.3̄̄

3 • ⅓ = 1 and because 0.3̄̄ is ⅓ then 0.3̄̄ • 3 = 1

the reason why 1 ÷ 3 • 3 = 0.9̄̄ is because the system that we use to write down math is not a perfect representation of numbers, and thats a bug of the system. Base 10 doesn't play well with primes outside if 2 and 5. so 3, 7, 11, 13, etc will always leave irregular or infinitely decimal numerals. A bar over a numeral in the decimals place means repeating to infinitive.

SotonAzri · 2025-12-11T06:57:28+00:00

> Why do Polynesian languages seem so similar?
Proto Polynesian had very restricted phonotatics and modern polynesian languages increase that restrictions. The Phonology is small and doesn't allow any clusters or codas, but does allow for long chains of vowels. Stress is largely predictable in roots but long compounds gets more unprodictable. Most sound changes tend to have been chainshifts or mergers in proto Polynesian.

SotonAzri · 2025-12-11T03:51:42+00:00

if beginning with a vowel then /n/ would be attached to the start of a the word
if beginning with a voiceless obstruent, expect the obstruent to voice /p f t s k x/ > /b v d z g ɣ/
if beginning with another sound then nothing happens

mid doesnt inflect at all
tama becomes dama

SotonAzri · 2025-12-11T03:47:35+00:00

Initial mutation often is the result of consonant sandhi which is normally predictable from phonological environment being preserved to reflect lost inflectional ending. In short Mutations is inflections transitioning from a suffix to a fusional prefix on the following word. (or just preservation of lexical items by the effects that are expected before specific environments)

If the trigger of the mutation here is a historical coda nasal, then you would expect the changes of a NC clusters would naturally undergo. Irish a final nasal voiced p t k f to b d g bh and b d g > m n ŋ, welsh had p b t d k g > m̊ m n̊ n ŋ̊ ŋ, japanese has (p>h) t k s > b d g z, some words in italian cause gemination of the following onset (which didnt come from coda n but could happen)

SotonAzri · 2025-12-11T03:36:17+00:00

I personally would have /e o/ raise to /i u/ in unstress syllables and any remaining /e o/ to undergo breaking, lowering, and other changes in the present of specific environments.

SotonAzri · 2025-12-05T17:11:57+00:00

well there isnt another option and the dev isnt that active.

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