Author: Silvercat

Lexember 2017 – Nyjichxn #2

Lexeme: nuɒβu
Gloss: wind, draft, breeze
Irregularity: Combo – Type 2 (formed from plural)
Combination Form: muβɯβ

Stress: IPA: Ŋyjichɯn phonetic:
Singular: nuɒβu nuɒβu ɱoɜ.ˈⱱɯ muoβɯ
Paucal: nuɒβɯɯβu nuɒβɯɯβu ɱoɜ.ˈⱱɯːʔ.ⱱʊ muoβɯɯβu
Plural: nuɒβuβu nuɒβuβu ɱoɜ.ˈⱱ.ⱱʊ muoβuβu

Listen:

And here’s how Ŋyjichɯn is said:

And the lexeme from yesterday:

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Lexember 2017 – Nyjichxn #1

Yup, doing Lexember again this year. Yup, I’m behind. The plan is actually to do it for the two languages I’m working on, Ŋyjichɯn and Ie. I’ll have to get caught up on Ie later, but it’s easier because it doesn’t have all the alternation and crap that Ŋyjichɯn does.

Anyway, here’s my first lexeme for the month:

Lexeme: chyjɒovi
Gloss: ice, slush, freeze
Irregularity: Noun – Type 1 (no plural or paucal)
Stress: chyjɒovi
Phonetic (IPA / Ŋyjichɯn transliteration): ˈtʃi.dʒɑɜ.ˌvʏ / chyjɒovi

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Burdock tsukemono

I made this from stuff I grew… 

Beige strips of burdock root smothered in sesame seeds, vinegar, and soy sauce.

I’ve eaten most of it.  It’s Japanese style pickles, made from burdock root and sesame seeds. And it’s delicious.

I have more pickling in miso right now.

This is half of the burdock I harvested on Saturday. I have one more I’m letting grow more because it was stunted by the other two stealing all the sun. 


This is an older picture. The burdock is in the blue things (because the root gets 12-16′ long with this variety – and other varieties get longer). Even with that they ended up below the level of the garden bed. At the end the leaves were bigger than my head (they got composted).

Also in this bed is cucumber, Mexican mint (tagetes lucida – a type of marigold), turnips, and round carrots. The carrots and turnips are gone now and there’s some flowers added. 

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Sam-Orc

Finally finished this.

This is Sam-Orc, my orc barbarian for D&D. Zie was raised by group of adventurers, mostly a trans woman dwarf druid. Sam-orc doesn’t understand gender or gender roles and is a panromantic demisexual.

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Cat pic of the day

Spooky is not a lap cat (Heidi even less so) but she purrs like wow when I hold her. As long as I don’t move. And she’s on my LEFT shoulder. And no one comes too close. And there are no loud noises. 

Cats. Whatcha gonna do? 

A dark haired person in a gray shirt holding a black & white cat against their shoulder. The cat is looking away. The person has their eyes closed and a slight smile.

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Link of the day

http://mcmansionhell.com/post/166413635446/looking-around-on-moving-or-the-story-of-a

Each of the times I’ve moved from apartment to apartment (and finally, on this move, to an actual, full-sized house), there have been great difficulties loading and unloading all of my crap– difficulties innate to the houses themselves. These were usually small hardships, involving the clever rotation of a sofa or armchair in order to wrestle it out the door. 

This time, however, I came to a horrifying revelation: None of my existing furniture would be able to A.) fit within the cramped dimensions of the narrow staircase or B.) make it around the corner in the shallow hallway to my room. 

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‘The one with the bats’ – Black Stallion & Flame livetweeting

Last night I started live-tweeting The Black Stallion and Flame. You can see why in the first couple tweets.

I’ll be continuing tonight. Come read along and if it’s amusing, share with your friends

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