I’ve run into a weird problem with my dissertation.
The novella of my dissertation is set in Classical Athens, just after the end of the Peloponnesian War. It’s alt-history with a number of steampunk elements, which means it’s got enough speculative elements that I can gloss over a few historical inaccuracies. I’d just rather not, if I can help it.
Read MoreI’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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