Tag: language
A "sprue" is the cardboard sheet from which you punch out game pieces
Also has meanings in model-making, cooking/gardening, manufacturing, and medicine!
Poem of the week: Is Your Country a He Or a She in Your Mouth by Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood’s poem Is Your Country a He or a She in Your Mouth? removes country from the map and puts it inside the body. The title doesn’t ask whether a country is male or female. It asks what the country becomes in your mouth. The mouth pronounces the nation and gives it a pronoun,...
ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
A controlled language for writing unambiguous technical instructions
Orwell's Six Rules for Writing
Clear prose as a defense against vague and dishonest thought
For the Love of Language
I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.
On the Origins Of, and Our Responses to, Terminology
Borrowing an invitation from Vanessa Machado de Oiveira, via the introduction from her book, Outgrowing Modernity, to "[understand] that complexity resists neatness - and so should the language we use to navigate it."
Chrìochnaich Mi An Cholaiste. Tha Mi Caillte.
A short A2-level Gaelic (Scottish, Gàidhlig na h-Alba) retelling of my post “College Is Done. I am Lost.” – written and checked as carefully as possible, but likely still has mistakes, so take it as a learner's effort rather than a polished translation.
We Are Starting to Sound Like the Thing We Built
“Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors.“
#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).
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.
japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way
japanese verbs are awesome. you can take the dictionary form of a verb (for example, "taberu", to eat) and turn it into many forms:
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.
Second Langauge Acquisition, Pt. 1
TBC...
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?
Each Word Arrives
I don't have thoughts and then find words for them.
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.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.