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Category Archives: Constructed Languages

No Free Lunch

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
You know, when I first started using the Internet, pretty much everything was free.  Once you got used to searching, you could find just about anything on the ‘net, all the way up to and including source code for all kinds of things.  So, in that spirit, I [...]

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How To AutoCreate A ConLang

Thursday, September 3, 2009

I’m writing this in response to the person who e-mailed me asking for instructions on how to use my Conlang Word Maker.
Now, without any intended smarmy-ness, I really thought it was self-explanatory, but, then again, when I wrote this webapp, I was steeped in conlanging. Also, it was based on another program called LangMaker [...]

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Bit Rot

Thursday, August 27, 2009

By all rights, this blog should be dead.
Frankly, the entire website is so old and out of date and willfully not maintained that I’m surprised there’s any traffic to it.  But, there is.  And with any large volume of people, there are always those who take advantage and push free resources beyond their intended use.  [...]

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Conlang film, comments requested

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

I don’t want to give away the ending, but lets just say that the greedy Esperantists with their evil plans for world domination and the abolishment of true artistic conlanging get their just deserts.
Okay, seriously, I doubt that the creator of Conlang: The Movie is still looking for comments as this is pretty old. Like [...]

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Happy Birthday, My Droogie Lad.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Today is the birthday of novelist and critic Anthony Burgess
He was born John Anthony Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England on this day in 1917. Though he had written several novels early in his career, none of them were particularly successful. His career took a different turn, however, when, in 1959, he began to suffer from [...]

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Dialect Maker Down for Good

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Well, it seems my antiquated Perl code is just a little too much for my new webhost’s servers to handle.
My web implementation of the Zompist Sound Change Applier almost killed their server this past weekend.  It uses a CPAN library that someone created, based on the Zompist code, and it’s getting a little “long in [...]

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Dialect Generator Down

Friday, April 25, 2008

Well, just weeks after announcing that all my conlang language machines are back on-line, I’ve had to take one down.  My Dialect Maker seems to be a CPU hog on the server.  Also, in spite of coding it so that it should only run one instance at a time, it somehow got two loaded on [...]

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Reactivated

Monday, April 7, 2008

For those few, brave souls that still read this blog, be of good cheer, for you will be the first to know that my infamous conlang scripts are reactivated.  Yes, that’s right, all those good, tasty scripts for generating languages on the fly are active once again.
My webhost has changed hands several times and the [...]

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