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Proto-Zorbbbb

Conlangs

My showcase for Proto-Zorbbbb, the ancestor of Zorbbbb. Please don’t try to speak it, because each verb has almost nine trillion forms, the number system is based on prime numbers rather than the powers of a base, you must have perfect pitch, and your mouth must be capable of manipulating 4D space.

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Semantics Part 1: Theory Behind Meanings

Linguistics

Math

We know how meanings are arranged and put together, but how are they actually understood?

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Craftic

Conlangs

Explaining how my conlang “Craftic” works. The real name was too long to fit in the title.

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What is a Language?

Linguistics

How do you decide if something is its own language or just a dialect of another language?

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SLIYS - a linguistics summer program for high schoolers

Linguistics

Random

A very unique opportunity that high schoolers interested in linguistics can take part in.

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Historical Linguistics Part 2: Language Evolution, The Comparative Method and Language Families

Linguistics

How did historical linguists figure out the ancestor language to all the Indo-European languages? Or the Dravidian languages? Or any other group of languages that people believe to be related? The comparative method is how.

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Syntax - Recursion, Constituent Units, and Trees

Linguistics

CS

How are sentences actually formed in language? This post is answering the first part of this question.

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Why orbits have equal area in equal time

Physics

Math

You may have heard the Kepler’s law about planets sweeping equal areas in equal times, but this kind of sounds weird. Here’s the proof.

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Historical Linguistics Part 1: The Beginning of Linguistics

Linguistics

How did people suddenly start thinking about languages scientifically? What were the results of this primary branch of linguistics?

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Why Pi is not, in fact, equal to 4

Math

Most problems are either computational or proofs… but this one’s a disproof, which will hopefully spice up 2026 a little.

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Why would anyone in their right mind do it like this?

Math

I found this problem that’s really easy but I had a really goofy solution.

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Abstract Derivatives Part 1 - Linear Operators

Math

Answering the following questions - Why are matrices considered linear? How can differentiation also be interpreted as this?

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Abstract Derivatives Part 2 - Multivariable and Beyond

Math

AI

How can the idea of derivatives as linear operators be applied to more complex functions, like multivariable functions, vector-valued functions, and vector fields? How does this relate in the slightest to AI?

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Nice Puzzle to Distract My Ice Skating

Math

Random

Lol I found this while ice skating and proved it as rigorously as possible in my head while simultaneously figuring out how to ice skate without looking like a monkey.

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Morphology

Linguistics

How do languages organize different units of meaning in a word? What even is a word? How does meaning relate to writing and sound? All of these and more will be answered in this blog post.

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Phonetics

Linguistics

How do sounds work? How do you organize any sound biologically possible for humans? All these and more will be answered in this blog post.

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Phonology

Linguistics

We know how sounds work biologically, but how do languages perceive them?

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The IPA

Linguistics

Before we learn how sounds work biologically and how they are perceived, we must first understand how linguists write them.

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Writing Systems

Linguistics

How do different types of writing systems work? What are they evolved from, and how? All these and more will be answered in this blog post.

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Limit riLmOtOpU (Limit For Monkeys)

Conlangs

I first heard of constructed languages, or conlangs, when I heard of Esperanto. I did my research and found out that Esperanto is a terrible conlang for reaching its…

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