scribblemyname | Wednesday, December 7, 2016 (Reply)

Lots to do today and not necessarily looking forward to it. That said, there are good things! Lovely things!

Last night I went to bed early and ended up rewatching a comfort food movie to go to sleep by. Hoosiers is still one of my top three to five favorites.

Lexember Word for the Day:

cherich • [ tʃɛ ɹitʃ ] or [ tʃɛ ɹiʔtʃ ] • ice cream, lit. the ice
noun form derived from an older form of the definite, before this construction would have been considered imprecative; some native speakers pronounce it in the imprecative with the "final" glottal stop and others have dropped the stop to treat it like an irregular definite noun
Language: Akachenti

I have to revisit phonology for this language. I thought I had my clicks nicely settled and basic phonotactics but it's amazing how easy and clear everything is one day, then sounds total different on re-analyzing it the next. And I'm not that great at phonetic analysis in the first place. :headdesk:

Interesting Articles Read:

Ken Liu and The Wall of Storms by Juliette Wade on Dive Into Worldbuilding

To fix or not to fix by Patricia C. Wrede

Interesting Fiction Read:

“The Mote-Dancer and the Firelife” by Chris Willrich in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Books I want:

A Rose Point Holiday by MCA Hogarth: I got a friendly little email telling me this one existed, and I'm a huge fan of her work. Technically I have a Scribd account and have also been paying for it for months when I couldn't figure out how to get it to work since my tablet refuses to successfully install the update the app keeps downloading. If I could get it to work, I might be able to get this one for free. Hmm...

Things I'm not Working on and Should Be

trovia's story - Just plain having some trouble on that front, i.e. hating and throwing out all the new words I've managed to get on it

my Yuletide story - canon review (costs money) and writing the story in the first place

Things I'm Still Working on and Had Hoped Would be Finished by Now

postcards - all set up to order and waiting on payday

book collections - one's all set up to order and waiting on payday, one is written but not done being set up, and the other for the family is... not done at all. Ack!