Brass Merino @brassmerino@computerfairi.es

@squirrel ...i forgot to make the background transparent. But I am really excited to have an emoji of me!

@squirrel That works :) My linguist brain is just trying to predict how people are going to use them. Will they refer to the people they represent? Will the phone in my hands get misinterpreted as a bar of chocolate? Things like that.

@squirrel https://computerfairi.es/media/qrvUnZ_SZImfk3Y060U

How are you planning on naming them?

@squirrel I have made such a picture. Can I send you it?

@squirrel Is Squirrel Girl in any Marvel games yet?

@squirrel Interesting. You probably strain the solid bits of the corn out before adding the milk and sugar. At least based on my experience making horchata (basically rice juice with milk and cinnamon).

Did I mention brass dragons are known for being talkative

@lizardsquid So it goes. I could probably still have a spoken conversation in Mandarin. But I hate reading it because the writing system is BS. (That's what I did my capstone on for the Chinese major--why China should switch to a phonetic writing system, and why they're not going to.)

@lizardsquid What, studying Chinese? It sure started out that way, and the best part was either getting really good at Chinese on study abroad, or the time we had to do group skits at the end of second year and I convinced my group to do a Doctor Who story.
Third year was mostly dry nonfiction texts with far too many characters to learn each week, and I quit when I realized fourth year would be more of the same. I still finished the major though.

@squirrel is it just made by squeezing corn kernels, like making grape juice from grapes?

@lizardsquid It's been three and a half years since I last had to read Chinese. Just now I could feel my eyes crossing as I searched for characters I recognized. Or maybe that's just how bright the purples are.

@lizardsquid Indeed. Sometimes I see Chinese or Japanese when other instances log me out, but this is the first one where I actually had to change the default language.

@lizardsquid When I made my account just now, the interface was in Chinese. I had to download a handwriting keyboard on my phone to translate & figure out which line was email and which was password.

Heads-up: the Google handwriting keyboard moves much faster than I'm used to writing Chinese characters.

Nobody told me the interface defaulted to Chinese. I still know just enough to figure out how to change it :F