On the propedeutic value of Esperanto

It is often repeated on the internet that studying one year of Esperanto followed by three years of German will get you more proficient in German than if you had studied it all four years. The sources to support this claim are sparse, though, and many of the studies that have been done had small … Continue reading On the propedeutic value of Esperanto →

sabu ki Luna su saya mas lili ka Luna

sol oskur si kas na jo Luna be move do medi da Geo e Sol, jo asar la Sol be oskur ze Geo. ni kas ya vide di ajibu, a mon bil vide yemon ze un di lili area da Geo su fas.

Pandunia: a real-world Common

In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that our world is more connected than ever. Yet we also remain divided in many ways – politically, ideologically, culturally, and most of all, linguistically. Politicians and scientists, when they need to communicate with their counterparts in other countries, must rely on translators unless they … Continue reading Pandunia: a real-world Common →

How to make a TypeScript webapp in IntelliJ without frameworks

This post outlines how to create a webapp with multiple files and third-party dependencies in TypeScript without relying on Node or Require, using the IntelliJ IDE. For such a seemingly simple task, there is a dearth of useful tutorial material online; most TypeScript guides …

Rescriptivism: the new school of linguistic thought

I've decided to take it upon myself to start a new school of linguistic thought. One that accounts for not only the fluid and constructed nature of all language, but also its utility, and our agential roles within it. One that gives me a justification for why I've recently started …

Introducing the Danseiji Projections

For centuries, cartographers have wrestled with the challenges of making accurate maps. They were limited by not only the mathematical impossibility of accurately portraying a curved surface on a plane, but also by their computational capacities. In …

Oltilip: an international auxiliary language

Oltilip is the international auxiliary language that I constructed. I designed it to facilitate international communication across all humankind, and as such, aimed to make it as neutral, elegant, and easy-to-learn as possible. Based on those principles, I created a language with …

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations in COMSOL Multiphysics

Depending on your familiarity with MHD and COMSOL, making a tokamak in COMSOL may seem like a strange thing to want to do. Well, it is. COMSOL is typically used for industrial-type things—systems with simple physics but complicated geometries where …

The Sudofannettick Inglish Reform

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