I’ll come clean. One of the main reasons I’m restarting this blog is to take advantage of a captive audience and talk about conlanging—the art of constructing languages.

It’s probably my dorkiest passion, and I literally crochet my own sweatervests, so that’s an extremely high bar.

Codon is a language I came up with back in 2014. It’s complete, usable, and utterly impractical—it only has a vocabulary of 64 words. You’d never find something like it in the real world.

Except you totally would, because it’s based off the structure of RNA.

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