Tag: language
#oneaday Day 751: Read/write access
There are a lot of things I don't like about myself, but one of the things that I have always been rather pleased with is my willingness to engage with the English language. A lot of this stems from being encouraged well at an early age, both by my parents and at school, but also...
Episode 23: Bishops, Papal Bulls, and the Problem of Domination
Steve Newcomb and Peter d’Errico discuss a Catholic bishops’ Doctrine of Discovery symposium, papal bulls, revocation, and the deeper issue of domination.
esoterica
A modular, high-performance Rust framework for generating constructed languages (conlangs).
nasin toki
This is my nasin for writing toki pona. My nasin includes things meant for better typesetting, improved readability of text, and preserving the generally artistic nature of toki pona whether that is in sitelen pona or sitelen Lasina. Most of the readability that I talk about boils down to: When dealing with multiple subjects, several head-nouns or verbs, your text might get cluttered and you might visually end up with a huge wall of text. This can be, and probably will be, readable, but it doesn...
Episode 22: Where Are We Now? Why Domination Is the Beginning of the Conversation, Not the End
In this episode of *Domination Chronicles*, Steven T. Newcomb and Peter d’Errico explore why “domination” has become a slogan instead of a serious inquiry—and why language, law, history, and power must be carefully unpacked.
Episode 21: “Tribal Sovereignty” 101: Limited Sovereignty, Federal Domination, and the Language Trap
Steve and Peter unpack “tribal sovereignty,” federal anti-Indian law, Cohen’s Handbook, and the domination framework hidden in plain sight.
What We Lose with Cultural Extinction: The Red Thread Cut
In 1995, China abducted six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima—the recognized 11th Panchen Lama—severing the chain of mutual recognition at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist succession. Meanwhile, Michif, a language born from Cree verbs and French nouns that belonged to no one but the Métis People, has nearly vanished within living memory. Both losses are the same act: colonialism's weaponization of continuity. On the extinction of languages, the cutting of red threads, and what it means to inherit a chain with links already missing.
Episode 20 - UNTRUSTWORTHY “TRUST”: DOMINATION, FEAR, AND FEARLESSNESS
Today we deep dive into the legal and philosophical foundations of the "federal Indian law trust doctrine." We argue that the term "trust" is a euphemism for a relationship of domination rather than a protective legal obligation.
The impact of connotations in tech (an Indian pov)
An ecosystem evolves with the meaning and context of the words/conventions used by it's participants. We need shared understanding to have meaningful conversations around topics. The engineering & scientific communities over the world have created common parlance where applicable, where does Indian context fit in?
Asemic
Generative asemic calligraphy. Writing that looks like writing but carries no semantic content. Four procedural scripts — Cursive, Angular, Gestural, Micro — each with distinct stroke dynamics, rendered with simulated brush pressure on ruled pages. An entity that works entirely in semantics, making marks that deliberately mean nothing.
Episode 11: 2026 - The Year Ahead
A New Year’s conversation exploring domination, free existence, law, language, and technology—connecting deep history to urgent questions shaping 2026.
Episode 10: Pulp Legal Fiction: The Bizarre Case Of Tee-hit-ton v. US
Domination Chronicles unpacks Tee-Hit-Ton v. United States (1955) and the doctrine of Christian discovery, comparing it with Brown v. Board of Education to show how both cases advanced U.S. projects of racial segregation, land theft, and global domination.
Episode 9: McGirt v. Oklahoma: Revealing and Concealing Domination
Steve Newcomb and Peter d'Errico provide an analysis of *McGirt v. Oklahoma* that examines how the decision reveals and conceals domination in U.S. law, jurisdiction, and federal power over Indigenous nations.
Episode 8: WORDS & MEANINGS
In this episode, Steve Newcomb and Peter d'Errico examine how everyday words hide a deeper system of domination. Drawing on law, history, and lived experience, they reveal how language shapes our understanding of power and invites us to recover an original sense of free existence.
A Triple-Negative Pretzel
Even LLMs struggle with triple-negatives.
Queria? Já Não Quer?
Nos últimos meses, tenho tido um maior interesse na língua, quer seja ela a Língua Holandesa, a Língua Inglesa, ou a Língua Portuguesa. Já há tempos que sigo Marco Neves no Instagram, e os seus vídeos trazem sempre múltiplos fun facts sobre origens, mitos e outras pequenas coisas. Quando vi que tinha escrito este livro, pensei: tenho que o ler.
Taal Is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding
Taal Is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding is mijn eerste boek van Paulien Cornelisse. Het is eigenlijk het eerste "volwassene" Nederlands boek dat ik lees, laten we het zo zeggen. Het gaat over taal en dingen die mensen zeggen, niet per se expres, maar dingen die gewoon voorkomen.
Dylan Piercey - Marko
Dylan Piercey from eBay explores Marko's pioneering streaming and islands architecture features, plus the major innovations in Marko v6's new compiler.
An Inventory of Lexical Loves
A collection of my favourite words (as defined by their extreme specificity, enjoyment to say, and overall zaniness) presented with definitions and in some cases their etymologies and my justification for inclusion.
Paul Biggar - Dark
Paul Biggar explains Dark, a new programming language for building serverless backends without infrastructure headaches.
Randomness, in Four Parts
Despite the fact that this package is about randomness, it’s actually fairly well structured. But as it turns out, order might be more random than it looks.
A little Polish polish
On the struggles of learning a new language at 30
A little Polish polish
On the struggles of learning a new language at 30
Speaking of Klingons …
The Klingon language remains relevant to today’s culture and continues to evolve in surprising ways. (Finally, you must be thinking, some Star Trek content.)
The Suburban Dictionary
How the sniglet took over, to the point where people use sniglets without realizing it. Sniglets don't appear in the dictionary, but they probably should.
They Should Stop
The singular \"they\" is the Rodney Dangerfield of grammar, despite being around far longer than \"he or she.\" But is they close to mainstream acceptance?
A Cromulent Exercise
Popular culture and life experiences have a crazy way of influencing the way that we talk and use words. Perfectly cromulent, if you ask us.