Generating in Inspiration Pad Pro (Part 3 of 3)

As I said in the first part, Inspiration Pad Pro was designed for RPGs, so it’s very flexible, but limited to keyboard characters (it’s possible to use the HTML entity equivalents, and I did that in the final form of the generator1). I hadn’t made this generator, so this will be more step by step. It should be possible to create generators for parts of speech with different endings, and possibly to derive words from an output (I haven’t done either of those tho.)

  1. The IPA symbol HTML codes can be found here or by looking on each one’s wikipedia page which are linked from the IPA page.

Please note, I’m very much a beginner at this and there are likely to be better ways than I use. Our rules and phonotactics for Maanxmuʃt are:

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Generating in Gen (Part 2 of 3)

In the previous post, I talked about how easy Gen is. In this post, I’ll show what a generator in Gen looks like and what the limitations are. I’m working on a language called Maanxmuʃt, which I had decided I wanted to be Germanic-like so that there would be a bunch of sound changes when words where borrowed, since Nyji words are basically CVC. (I actually stole the phonology and phonotactics from some Germanic language, I don’t remember which) So I wrote up some guidelines for the phonotactics.

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Two Different Conlang Word Generators (Part 1 of 3)

Sometimes you just want a big list of words for your language. In my case, I’m creating a language (Maanxmuʃt) to be borrowed from for my main language (Nyji). There are two word generators I use:

Both are free, but they have different abilities and results. Before I compare, the obvious caveats:

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Emerson Safety Bicycle Shoe (scan)

Vintage Advertisement - text below

This is an ad from McClure’s Magazine, from about 1900? I can’t find anything about Emerson bicycle shoes, but the Butler Boys were professional cyclists in 1890-1910. Only Nat has a reasonable sized Wikipedia article (Tom has a stub and Frank has nothing at all). While born in Halifax, Canada, they grew up in Cambridge Massachusetts and raced in America and Europe.

I’m guessing the ‘safety’ part of it meant that the laces weren’t long enough to get caught in the chain. Pratt Fasteners are a way to secure the laces without tying – it looks like they’re kind of like keychain rings? You seem to slide the lace between two metal rings. The best image I can find is at Getty Images (I had to turn off my ad-block to see the image) Pratt Fasteners were apparently popular for a while – a google image search finds a good number of ads mentioning them.

Transcription:

The Butler Boys prefer the Emerson Safety Bicycle Shoe

Elastic Gores.

Pratt Fasteners. No knots to tie or untie – Always Sure.

Fast Color Eyelets and Hooks. Never get brassy.

Best on Earth.

The safest, easiest and best bicycle shoe ever made. Strong, light, best of stock and workmanship. The very flexible shank, elastic gores and Pratt Fasteners are essential elements of ease, comfort and safety.

Sold only in our 27 Emerson Stores ore by mail. Send for “Mail” Catalogue. R.B. Grover & Co., Brockton, Mass.

$3.50 or $3.75 if sent by mail.

Please mention McClure’s when you write to advertisers.

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Her Hand (poem scan)

This is the back of the previous scan. I like the art on the other one better. It appears that every page had the same artwork on the front and back, if the two pages I have are an indication.


scan of a poem - transcription below

Her Hand

It is so very white and small
One cannot understand at all
How it could be so great a prize
As truly it is in my eyes,
Nor how, and with such cunning art,
Relentlessly it holds my heart.

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In The Spot Light (poem scan)

I couldn’t find the author for this. It’s apparently out of a poetry book or magazine. I have a couple of pages from it. Every page has the same art on the front and back. There are the initials “E.L” in the bottom left corner – I’m assuming it’s the artist. My other page is framed and I don’t want to open it up to check.

I suspect this is a specific type of poem, but I’m not a poetry expert, so feel free to tell me what it is.

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It can finally be revealed – Argent Whiskers is licensing Ursula Vernon art

I’ve made a deal with Ursula Vernon to put her glyph pendant designs on other stuff, like shirts, sweatshirts, journals, and lots more.

I currently have a kingfisher and a chicken design up on apparel! Check them out here

I will still be doing my original designs and making more pridewear.

You can follow Argent Whiskers on Twitter and Instagram

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Updated Meatball recipe

I made meatballs again, but added more veggies and spices, so here it is.

Like before, the easy way is to use a food processor (that’s what I did), but you can chop the veggies up yourself too. You can see above they’re just diced. I upped the amount of red and black pepper and they’re a bit spicy. If you don’t like pepper, reduce it back to 1/4 teaspoon each.

Silver’s Eat Alone Meatballs

1 lb ground turkey
1 lbs ground beef
1 cup-ish bread crumbs (about two slices of bread)
2 eggs
1 small onion, diced
4 or so cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 cup-ish carrot, diced or shredded
1 green pepper, diced
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 tsp salt
1/3 tsp black pepper
1/3 tsp red pepper
2tsp oregano
2 tsp basil
2 tsp parsley

Mix and form into 2 inch balls. It was a pretty wet mixture and I should’ve squished some of them more than I did, but they all turned out fine.

Cook at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. I lined the pan with foil and just put them straight onto that and there was no problem.

Let cool and freeze.

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Sketch of Maa

Aka, Mya, aka Mya-chama. Her name has changed as I’ve worked on her language, Tynthna

But here she is in some of her native clothing:

I haven’t drawn her as a non-chibi in ages and never in correct clothes (since I just came up with those this year)

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