David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker at London Comic Con is a picture we didn't know we needed today! 😍 ✨️

A Line Which Forms a Volume 4

On sale! A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 comes to you from the London College of Communication where students in the MA Graphic Media Design program put together ALWFV on a regular basis. Issue 4 focuses on the constructed borders of the design canon. How do design practices move and cross borders? Contributors include Ahmed Ansari, Clara Balaguer, Yu Jiwon, Lucas LaRochelle, and more. Designed by Yao Qi and Zhu Yiting.

This week's game is LCC aka a whole week of me being sad about the third dossier game we got robbed of

like honestly not to be controversial but if they ever announced ship of shadows i would be like a billion times more hyped than I am for nd34 lol

Pharaoh (1937), dir. Z.B. Collingwood

Stopppp. This is so cute.

We're Back Baby!

So, after nearly two years of radio silence, we're finally back! Sorry about that everyone, we've been having a hard time maintaining our social media presence, and this place felt the brunt of it. But we're now back and with a brand new social media manager, who should make sure we never go this quiet again.

Now, for those who have forgotten who we are, and those who discover us now thanks to this post, a quick introduction:

We're the Language Creation Society, a California-based non-profit organisation with international reach and membership. Our main purpose is the promotion and furthering of the art, craft and science of language creation (conlanging) through conferences, books, journals, outreach activities, or other means (like literally, it's in our articles of incorporation and everything!). Basically, we're an organisation of conlangers, for conlangers, and for conlanging as a whole.

How do we do this? By many means. We've got a Jobs Board for conlangers who want to practice their craft professionally. It's set up so as to ensure people who do conlanging for others are paid fairly for their work (it's a work in progress) and don't end up in disadvantageous contracts. For people who are interested in doing something conlang-related academically, we've got the LCS Presidents' Scholarship, which is a (modest) amount of money we award to people with interesting academical projects that align with our main purpose. For general conlang-related projects, we've got the LCS Grants (currently the most famous project we supported financially is probably the Conlanging, The Art of Crafting Tongues film, the first full-length documentary on conlanging ever made). But our main article is the Language Creation Conference, for many conlangers the only way for them to ever meet other conlangers face to face. So far we've organised 8 face-to-face conferences in North America and Europe (all with live streaming and online participation for those who couldn't join), one online-only conference (thanks COVID), and due to circumstances outside our control our next conference will be online-only as well. But we'll get back to doing face-to-face conferences someday!

Of course, all these activities cost money. Which is why we encourage people to join our organisation as a member, which will give you many benefits, including the power to help decide what we actually do. The more people join us, the more we can do to help conlangers and conlanging as a whole. Not just thanks to a larger budget (we fully depend on membership fees for our income, and everyone working at the LCS does so as an unpaid volunteer), but because you can bring your ideas to the table and help us provide the best support we can to the conlanging community in general and our members in particular.

So this is us. In the next weeks, expect more announcements from us as we pick up steam (I'll also share videos from the latest Language Creation Conference from our Youtube channel). In the meantime, feel free to reblog this post so everyone can be made aware of our return to Tumblr, and our Asks are also open to anyone who has any question concerning us or conlanging in general. We're here to support you, so don't hesitate to get in touch!

And since it's the season, happy Lexember everyone!

when you’re unbelievably angry but being angry causes wrinkles

Jorge: Ugh you’re still wearing that outfit? Cringe! Eda: You’re so right. I should be like you and wear clothes that went out of style in 2008.

The entire JQ fandom today.

Some LCC chibis for art fight!! Maple and Morning being siblings, and Magpie having a crisis over Tetra.

Fen Sawul Tal Fes

Hné hu bel su xí kal sú. E hmu af dné k’a hné kén hne, a sémfa k’a xi nwat le. Sáwul k’a psil fen tuf hne sú hné. Hox byóx oth súwu na lal hne. Hox ól súwu le p’és, a p’íl k’a dá le syád hne. T’ud e bon sos mán oth fóna le umen hi sk’el. Béta kulum ma bón sos fóna le a hné gan. Xél pa oth tóf le un af. Hox émbe pa xmen hné fél nolyo yebi hox. Mélk’o le hne hú tso fél xu. Ts’úth ma dá le hné a syád hne a tyútthin le hne sín ex. Kwét sos dá le. St’ók k’a a fúk k’a sú hné, os fám pa li e fen wi hné fél nolyo yebi. Byóx oth í, sos kwáf k’a sú hné. Xél pa oth! Hox émbe pa xmen hné fél nolyo yebi hox. Tu nólyo da tsúba. Sbét tso mán nolyo t’en ix kxe. Há dá néden od! Yo sémfa xmen hné hu bel su! Sémfa oth a k’ú oth il boyo!

Translation and more info after the cut!

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Since I’ll be participating in the LCC 10 Conlang Relay and haven’t done one before, I decided to practice with materials from a previous LCC Conlang Relay!

The text above is a T’owal translation of my attempt at an English translation of a text in Teonaht, a conlang by Sally Caves, itself translated from English, from Jessie Sams (@quothalinguist)’s Hiutsath, from English, from David J. Peterson (@dedalvs)’s Dothraki. That’s the basic idea of a conlang relay: each person receives a text in someone else’s conlang with enough information to be able to translate it, and they produce a translation into their own language for the next person to use. Since the translations and conlang info from the LCC 5 Relay are all available here, I picked a spot in the relay and treated it as if I was next in line!

This practice was sort of “on easy mode” since I knew what the original text was, and Teonaht was surprisingly easy to translate from. A very cool language, too! Sometime soon I’ll practice again using a different past relay.

Regarding the audio, I’m annoyed that I forgot to start with the title, but not enough to go back and edit it in. My pronunciation was a little off in some spots; in particular, I kept mixing up hne and hné, which should have [ɛ] and [ej] as the vowel respectively. I also mixed up some instances of o [ɔ] and ó [ow]. ó well. Levuna’s pronunciation was perfect, though!

So anyway, here’s the English translation of the T’owal text above:

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Father’s Advice

My child, come to me. Today you will leave your family and ride to the mountains. I will advise you before your journey. Don’t trust any turtle that speaks to you. Turtles cannot burn and will frighten your horse. Eat carrots (which grow in the soil) only during the full moon. The full moon makes the carrots stronger, and also you. Listen to these last words: you must not touch any plum tree. Those trees are your enemies. They will make all people hate you, your horse, and your ancestors. They are completely evil. I will hunt and kill you if you look one time at a plum tree. Know this: I will destroy you. Listen! You must not touch any plum tree. But their fruit is sweet. It may be eaten fresh or dried. It tastes great! Now you must ride, my child! Ride and scream like a goat!

And... action!

Welcome to lights, camera, curses week!

#cluecrewplaythru: lights, camera, curses!

seek the source of sabotage on a cursed hollywood set!

TMAGP's classification system is definitely a bit chaotic, but frankly after using the Library of Congress Classification System while working at a library I'm just like yeah classification systems are like that. Here are real actual categories the LCC has:

misc. biographies "including adventurers, eccentrics, misers, etc."

dueling as it relates to chivalry and knighthood

the biographies of archivists

"circuses, spectacles, etc." which includes "rodeos, waxworks, amusement parks, etc."

nudism and sunbathing

These are all organized in a series of pdfs which you can find here: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

Anyways, the LCC is a delight to look through and TMAGP's classification system reminds me of it 💗

10th Language Creation Conference Video Links

Last weekend was the 10th Language Creation Conference, and it was a big success!

If you missed it (or if you want to watch the presentations again), don't worry: everything was recorded, and the recordings (fully captioned!) are available on our YouTube channel. Go over there if you want to (re-)watch:

The Day 1 livestream;

The Day 2 livestream.

The presentations are also all available as separate videos assembled into the LCC10 Playlist.

In the coming weeks we will also feature every presentation video on this tumblr, so keep an eye on us!

Thanks to the presenters, audience, live captioner, and everyone else who was involved in making this conference a success. We'll see everyone again at the 11th Language Creation Conference, this time hopefully face to face!

Fiat Lingua!