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 …
Author: Justin Kunimune
/ˈdʒʌs.tɪn ku.nɪ.ˈmu.neɪ/; “he”, “him”
Nuclear fusion, map projections, constructed languages, and flat earth theory.
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, …
