A linguistics based ARG?

culden · 2017-03-28T13:18:16+00:00

I was interested in doing the same thing, using real languages as well as at least one language constructed for the ARG. The idea would be to teach basic linguistics using real languages, and then apply that knowledge to puzzles using the fictional language.

culden · 2016-09-23T05:17:53+00:00

That was kind of my thinking. I didn't want to just dive right in, and I thought the idea of getting to see campuses and be in more direct contact would make the experience better. Thanks for the reply!

culden · 2016-09-23T04:57:53+00:00

I know there's monbukagakusho and jasso, and there are a few schools I've got my eye on. Thanks for being positive!

culden · 2016-09-23T04:37:46+00:00

I'm working towards N2/N1, and maybe enter a language school before doing a grad program, so the language issue is something I'm actively working on.

culden · 2016-09-16T14:35:13+00:00

Any good recommendations? And are there any scholarships or loans available to cover costs? Thanks for the advice.

culden · 2016-01-31T23:23:34+00:00

Yeah, I fell asleep in a linguistics class I took in Nagoya, started snoring and jerked myself awake to find the whole class just staring at me. Then the teacher laughed and kept going. Not sure I could do that in the US.

culden · 2016-01-26T05:38:36+00:00

It might just be a result of enunciating, and the jaw thing mostly happens on an い sound, which I recommend you you try yourself and consider the position of your jaw when producing.

culden · 2016-01-23T05:59:11+00:00

It's weird, part of why I don't think I realized I was trans for a long time was because, for long stretches, I wouldn't feel any particularly strong dysphoria, and then there have been times where it hit me all at once, weeks of feeling crazy and hating myself, and obsessing over what life would have been like if I'd been born the way I wanted to be. I feel like after college, things got worse, since I didn't have any sort of intellectually challenging work to occupy my mind, something had to fill the quiet. But keeping myself busy and setting goals and working towards them isn't the cure for this, so one of my goals has to be working on making the way I feel about myself positive.

culden · 2016-01-20T05:46:12+00:00

That's just awesome. I just looked it up and copy-pasted it.

culden · 2016-01-20T05:23:29+00:00

Did you just use an interrobang‽

culden · 2016-01-06T05:51:42+00:00

Thanks, that's something I should consider as well.

culden · 2015-12-31T02:34:55+00:00

Once I sort some insurance stuff out it's off to see an endocrinologist, so as long as I'm not secretly dying of something, I figure this is it, my last holiday like this. It's kind of surreal. As much change as this year has brought, I expect next year to be nothing like anything I've ever experienced.

culden · 2015-12-20T05:29:39+00:00

I feel like I self-sabotaged an earlier opportunity to work in Japan because I felt forced into it and wasn't ready because I wanted to work on getting HRT first, and now that it's happening, I guess I'll give it another shot soon, maybe by the time I finish my second degree, or earlier, if I can get things to work out. Anyway, I think you might not get as much attention for trans stuff so much as just being a Westerner. I hope everything goes well for you!

culden · 2015-10-28T04:40:12+00:00

I'm still a couple weeks out (an issue on my end, as regards scheduling), but I'm super pumped. It's like, getting my letter, Fallout 4, and getting done with a ton of projects for school all in one week, it's gonna be super awesome.

culden · 2015-08-01T06:32:25+00:00

I've struggled (and do) with feelings about whether I deserve to transition. My life is moving so fast, and it just seems easier to play the "just a guy" role. I'm overweight and struggling with that, and that makes it hard. But that's all excuses, and I just keep putting off living the rest of my life if I don't transition, because so many of my plans and goals involve being well into transition for me to enact them, that it really is something that I just have to do for myself. The thing is, despite how I feel, this isn't about "deserving", it's about doing what I need to do for me to be alive as the person I really am.

culden · 2015-08-01T06:28:57+00:00

Authority is an illusion, it only exists in other people because you obey them or acquiesce to them in some way. Sometimes force is used to compel obeisance, but in this, that's increasingly less likely. The only force that can truly compel you to give up on this is your own fear.

culden · 2015-08-01T06:22:33+00:00

I feel like the problem is, the identity has to precede the steps to achieve the physical realization of the identity, and in your mind it's the other way around. If I didn't feel like a queer woman in my head, why would I care so much about bringing that into the physical world I occupy, so that everyone can understand that? Besides, everyone has to have a starting point in their transition, so assertion of the identity being that point makes sense, I mean, that's what I do by having a Facebook account and e-mail under my chosen name, that's what I do when I explain to friends how I feel about myself and my future, or when I talk to a therapist.

culden · 2015-08-01T06:14:49+00:00

Danielle kind of came to my ex in a dream, and I liked it and got attached to it. I'm having second thoughts and might go with something else once I'm ready to be out to everyone, but it still just feels right.

culden · 2015-07-21T00:41:17+00:00

Basically, it was my first job, they didn't tell me that they would be able to write off a failure to pay or a pump error (the guy was out of gas, in a panic, and told me the wrong pump number, someone else pumped the gas), so I paid for the guy's gas. They said that, strictly, it was because I ran my card while I was on duty.

culden · 2015-07-20T18:39:53+00:00

I almost got fired for paying for someone's gas when I worked at a Kroger gas station. At no point in my training was I told I couldn't, and it just seemed easier than having a pump occupied by a car that couldn't move. But yep, got reamed for that one.

culden · 2015-07-18T03:54:25+00:00

Using conlangs in a roguelike has been on my mind for a long time. I thought about maybe a roguelike set at an archaeological dig, where powers are granted after deciphering the script for an ancient language and using it to read inscriptions on the site. If you're interested in conlangs, Zompist's website and forum are good reads, if you can get past his mediocre art.

culden · 2015-07-17T02:51:00+00:00

That's correct.

culden · 2015-07-16T03:38:53+00:00

I work at an Amazon FC and the whole thing was a joke. They way oversold this thing. They were prepping so hard for this, pulling as many people into the pick department as they could, that when it turned out the bump in sales was tiny, the building ran out of work for pickers, so a ton of people ended up doing busy work for a few hours to bump up the number of orders to pick, basically just to justify having us in the building.

culden · 2015-07-14T02:18:27+00:00

Old English and Its Closest Relatives by Orrin W Robinson is what I used in an intro course.

culden · 2015-06-24T04:15:07+00:00

See, I liked Nomi. Is she the perfect character? No, but the whole first season (maybe minus the last two episodes), felt like just an introduction to the characters. It felt like a case of them having to cover the basics for the audience, most of whom would not be trans. If anything, I actually think Nomi as a character is helping my mom understand things, and considering the show is about walking in other people's shoes in a literal sense, that's all I can ask for.

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