But ie wuznt goewng too die. Not unles yoo invietd sumwn, Miek add. "Noep," ie lied brietly. "Laundry," and then hee rusht, stumblng, too th' floar. Jasp(')r, hwevr, pauzd at th' desk wood 'lou. Insted, hee sat kwiet kloes bsied Jaik(')b. Ie glanst 'round, but it didnt …
Author: Justin Kunimune
/ˈdʒʌs.tɪn ku.nɪ.ˈmu.neɪ/; “he”, “him”.
Nuclear fusion, map projections, constructed languages, and flat earth theory.
Argentina!
Hello, Olin. I write to you now from The City of Good Airs, the capital of a faraway country in the Southern Annulus called Silverland. My path here has been treacherous, requiring me to cross that impenetrable band of intense solar radiation, the Scorch, or the Equator …
A Defense of “A Defense of the Mercator Projection”
Last month, in Mitch Cieminski's article, "The Mercator Needs no Defense", he made several compelling arguments advocating for the globe in favor of maps, and for the Mercator Projection in particular. While the globe has its distinct advantages, so too do …
A Defense of the Mercator Projection
If you've ever dabbled in cartography, geography, cultural imperialism, or that one scene from The West Wing, you've probably heard of the Mercator projection. If not, you've certainly seen it. The Mercator projection is the most common map projection for …
On the frequencies of individual phonemes in the phonetic inventories of costructed languages
This essay is based on a survey I conducted on Reddit last week in which I asked conlangers for their phonetic inventories. I got 117, which I supplemented with 24 famous conlangs (mostly auxlangs, which were woefully absent from my crowdsourced data) …
The secrets of the AuthaGraph revealed!
The AuthaGraph thought it could hide its true nature from all of us indefinitely, but it was wrong. It didn't account for me. By using the few images of their map that are available online along with the vague hand-wavy explanation of how AuthaGraph is constructed, …
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