FIrst Actual Post!

[ann_leckie]

Hey! Glad you stopped by! This is the first actual post. There's no real content here yet.

What's everybody reading? Anything good? Or watching?

Comments

[sylvanauctor]

Is there a good amount of comparative philology in them or is it mostly just fighting horrors?

[crane_among_celandines]

I'll be honest, it's mostly just fighting horrors and doing gay sex. Sorry. Whyborne's skill with languages is at least something that actually gets used, but there's never any real detail beyond "I spent my morning attempting to decipher the hieroglyphs".

... "mostly just fighting horrors and doing gay sex" would be a pretty great blog title though.

[sylvanauctor]

That's too bad. We need more linguistic sf that isn't just Hard Sapir Whorf Superpowers

[crane_among_celandines]

Have you ever read M. C. A. Hogarth's Kerishdar series? I can't claim it's about the linguistics, but she constructed a pretty solid conlang for it, and the narrator is a calligrapher, so some of it comes up.

Also where I learned the word "coolth" and (when looking that up) the even better word "spillth", meaning the substance of which a spill is composed.

[sylvanauctor]

I've actually just had it recommended to me! Now with two recs, I suppose it's my next read after Consuming Fire.