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A look at seven word forms in Esperanto that are homographs.

The details and discoveries tables from “The Paths of Ateşkazé” by Jeremy Strandberg in Perilous Almanacs remain my favorite caving adventure.

Mango man, mango man
Thinks he’s the entire universe, man
Usually mean to smaller man
Mango man
Is he depressed or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with mango man?
Degraded man, mango man.

As an adult, I rarely try to do things I’m no good at. At work, I do things I’ve done for decades. Same for my hobbies.

Trying something new means being embarrassingly bad at it.

That was awkward and difficult to work through.

I developed Cycladic League by re-imaging what Cyclades might be like it were a BASIC game, then iterating on the design in an agile fashion.

I have created three new background playbooks for Planet of the Week: the Belter (inspired by The Expanse), the Throwback (think Buck Rogers, or Steve Rogers, and maybe John Crichton), and the Terran.

“On their way back home from the war, the heroes have become lost among strange islands populated by mythical creatures, dire beasts, treacherous landscapes, legendary kingdoms, and desperate people—all somehow cursed or abandoned by the cruel power of the capricious gods.” — Evil Hat

Richard Adams’ Watership Down (New York: Macmillan, 1972) is one of the classic works of xenofiction (the fiction set in strange cultures, real or imagined), placed as it is among and between the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside. Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created.

This is an analysis of the Furbish of the first-generation Furby toys.

Inspired by Tamarian, here’s a modest proposal for a mythometaphorical conlang: Intermythic English. Intermythic English is English with the addition of 150 words.

In 2002, I started a sketch of a fictional Astronesian pidgin, reflecting a then emerging obsession of mine: conlangs that used all 26 Latin letters. I wouldn’t return to Pidanjinu until 2021-2022, working on it 15+ minutes a day, at which point it became the conlang that I am the most proud of: Muna Lingi. Here are its humble beginnings.

If you want to name some orcs, we have just the language for you.

Durdekors was a conlang I started for a role-playing board game I mocked up in the 1990s or early 2000s.