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Here’s the story of how and why I took this language test. I wrote this for friends and family, but others have read it as well. After putting all of this together, I myself am amazed at how long and hard I worked on this. It didn’t seem like it at the time, but when I wrote it all down, it turned out to be quite a lot.

I’ve used this a use times and it’s fairly good. I recommend it.

Huh! In my speech, the Tr in “tree” or “trigger” is really close to Chr as in “chree”. In fact to pronounce “chree” I have to aspirate so hard to distinguish it from /tr/....

I’m not sure if this is something you guys can or want to help with. The bathroom at my current job is completely free of graffiti except for the words “itik nuliak” written very clearly in Sharpie. It’s not a language local to where I live and putting it in Google translate doesn’t do anything. It’s been bothering...

A: thEHm B: thUHm C: əm

I was watching an episode of Monk (S03E12), and in the first few minutes, the detective asks his assistant “Do you have a pliers?” That immediately struck me as weird, but later, towards the end of the episode, he makes the comment “This was cut with a scissors.” The only place I’ve ever seen ‘a scissors’ was in...

For me it was Hebrew and it’s cool writing system, then ithkuil and how alien it seems. It lead me down a deep rabbithole to where i now make writing systems.

By words in reverse, I actually mean the entire word reverse pronounced and not just the letters rearranged. Best example is when you reverse a video, pronunciation of every letter in every word reverses....

Nothing rigorous or scientific, but an interesting test of mutual intelligibility between romance languages, considering Romanian has evolved separately from the other major and minor languages/dialects of southern and eastern Europe. I like that Iulian, the conductor of the experiment, chose mostly non-cognate words to make the...

For me personally, the Mayan script is by far the most beautiful scripts on the face of the Earth. How it is writ is just so fascinating. However, unfortunately, I started finding more about it late in life after my mind began slowing down. So, unfortunately, I have not been able to retain a lot of the information. Oh well....

Trying to force my mind to think on something (health issues making brain a wee wonky)....

What do y'all think of conlangs? Anyone here know toki pona? I personally speak it, and am wondering.

Let's answer this simple question just to get this community started!

I wrote this a while back, it's a probably a niche tool for people who like to stay in the terminal, load their own data from simple tsv files, and still learn vocabulary.

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