Wybe.us

While browsing Wikipedia looking at flags, I found an article about Danish Monarchs. In the article there’s this picture of the Royal Banner of the Kings of Denmark from the 1300s, and I thought it was so cute.

Here’s something you don’t see very often: snow in Texas!

It’s official: Element 112 is named Copernicium (symbol Cn), which is named after Nicolaus Copernicus. The IUPAC approved the new name on the 19th of February, Copernicus’s birthday.

I’ve been learning how to do gradients…

I’ve been working on Satchian for a while now. According to my grammar document’s properties, Satchian was “born” on 8 April 2007. That’s almost three years ago. Total editing time lists 312 hours, or 13 days. Over a period of 1041 days, that means I spent, on average, 18 minutes a day working on Satchian’s grammar. I’ve spent a bit more time working on Satchian’s lexicon: a total of 390 hours, or 16 days, and 22 minutes a day on average. So in all, I put roughly 40 minutes a day into my conlanging hobby. Wow, I just surprised myself.

The time spent on Satchian is just the time spent on this particular version of Satchian. I’ve actually redone the language a couple times, and that’s not even counting on all the previous failed attempts at conlanging. To put it simply, I’ve been doing this for a long time.

If Satchian were software, it would be beta software. I still have some “bugs” to fix. If you look through my grammar, you’ll see some sections marked under construction in red. Regardless, Satchian is, more or less, usable as a language, which I am quite proud of. Satchian’s lexicon contains nearly 5,000 words (as of right now, I’m 116 words shy of 5,000), and that’s not counting a lot of alternate forms.

I just had to toot my own nerd horn. ^_^

xyloda, xyloid

Zyta xylodai naźair neþai þreutir., The xyloid art resembles real trees.

I hope that’s a correct usage of xyloid.

I did not create the actual unit circle used in these pictures–I modified it and created everything else. The original unit circle I used was created by Gustavb (I wish people would list their full names!) and published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. So that means all my unit circle art pictures posted here and on Flickr are licensed under the same license. I think.

My friend Jamie picked today’s word…

xenohræra, xenocryst

Xenohræra mlonar i hrærar je, je nu magimai vroliśir hus je zulliśir yn źabai mlonas wæsazossi yn luþnai, petir., A xenocryst is a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.

^_^