• raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty into conlanging, which is basically making up languages. There are tons of different approaches and ways people can go about it, but like probably most (or at least a plurality of) other conlangers, I generally go for something as naturalistic as possible. I’m also into linguistics so it serves as kind of an interesting way to explore different features and grasp them better, as well as just an excuse to do more research to find out more about something.

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      1 year ago

      Oooh. Have you heard of that indigenous language that is the only one in the world that doesn’t have a grammar structure that requires words? So it can be spoken, or whistled with the same functionality. It’s stupid difficult to learn, but the thought of carrying entire conversations via whistling is incredibly intriguing to me.

      I heard about it in an college anthropology class, and its been something I’ve marveled at occasionally ever since.

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      1 year ago

      Whoo! I’ve been spending the last year getting into Esperanto, and been slowly getting obsessed with how language works