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all my toots are now *officially* licensed under creative commons (CC BY 4.0), meaning you are free to share/adapt/remix them, as long as you provide credit to me!

if this toot gets more than 30 likes, I'll post a selfie
(I'll be posting it followers only)

desperate for attention again 

like this status if you would smooch me

you say eating the sun is impossible
I say it's just a long term project

I just spent an hour walking through the snow!!!

it was really lovely!!

@lizardsquid if you count it as different from English-style, the Spanish convention of inheriting a family name from both father and mother

Dotsies is a font that compresses the Latin alphabet down to dots that can be read quickly (and learned quickly too, apparently). There are a few lessons on the homepage to get started

dotsies.org/

There's a touch of #cyberpunk here in that I wonder if this is the beginning of transforming text to human readable barcodes

time management 

thanks for the advice!!

but I actually meant for like... in general, not right now

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time management 

also I've realised that if I go on mastodon, I never want to leave because you're all so lovely and amazing

so if I want to actually get stuff done, I'm gonna need to figure something out... any suggestions?

Wordlbuidling Nonsense 

@lizardsquid so in my fantasy world humans are the only species that can function as like "boom fireball wizard"

this is only because of careful breeding over centuries, so you have your name as follows {Fathers House} {Mothers House} {Given Name} {Title or Nickname, Usually what your friends call you over your given name} {Power}

The power being referred to is your bloodlines channeling ability, which is rated """""Scientifically"""""" by a special part of their society

hot drink take 

tea and hot chocolate are on par

@lizardsquid Indian style is really neat and I haven't quite wrapped my head around it. It's so varied there-- and it's near completely incompatible with English naming conventions. ^^;;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_f

thinking about alternative naming schemes for humans

examples from real life:

* English-style: Given Middle Family
* Iceland-style: Given (Middle?) (Father's Given)(gender marker)
* Japan-style: Family Given

and that's all I know - what are some other (real or fictional) naming systems?

linguistics shitpost 

@lizardsquid wait, I did that wrong if tense is the head of the sentence

I you what about talking-are not-know

linguistics shitpost 

@lizardsquid
I don't you're talking what about know

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