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@leon-fleming It’s still unintelligible to everyone save myself, unfortunately XD. And sometimes even I can’t read it. My sister says I’ve become the next da Vinci.
Lately, it's been on my brain
Would you mind letting me know
If hours don't turn into days@leon-fleming
Upside down handwriting? Huh. I’ll have to check that out. XD I don’t like using fancy notebooks or journals for writing, either, really. It just doesn’t feel right (write?). Lol. Those are for cute projects that I do nice writing for, or at least nicer writing. But I have tons of notebooks and journals, still. 😛
Prendre garde ~ I bleed ink
@selah-chelyah Hey, welcome to the club! Who are you? What’s your name? When’s…oh, wait. Never mind, I already know you. Welcome back! About how many notebooks do you have?
@devastate-lasting Hey, maybe you could make a language partly off your handwriting! You could turn some of the particularly hard to read stuff upside-down and side-to-side, then take some of those figures and make the beginning: a set of letters. Have I ever told you how much I dislike the concept of an alphabet? Probably not. Sounds are linked, you know? ‘F’ and ‘V’ are the same, except ‘F’ is non-voiced and ‘V’ is voiced. They’re the same, but there’re two separate forms of that sound. In English, no notice is taken of this: ‘f’ is toward the beginning of the alphabet and ‘v’ is towards the end. The same is clear for various other pairs and sounds. And then there’s that idea that sounds are represented by random letters with no correlation between the form of the letter and the sound that it represents. Have you ever heard of the International Phonetic Alphabet? That’s the international alphabet recognized among many countries to be the standard for their writing. That’s okay I guess, and alphabets aren’t too bad, but come on people! At least try to organize the letters in a concise, orderly fashion.
*takes a breath* But anyways, have you ever heard of toponymy? I just learned about it today. Looks pretty interesting. (If you can’t already tell, I don’t have a lot to do right now. XD)
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@leon-fleming Well @dragon-snapper has the WORST habit of melting things…we had to protect against her behavior in some way. Sadly, it was a total failure as @epicaddie2 will tell you.
Oh yes, “Cut Flowers” is the name of my most cherished brainchild. It’s about a girl (probably 16-18 I’m not sure yet) who is given three months to live. Her family is in shock, but she knows exactly what she wants to do. What follows is three months of traveling the United States in probably a motor home (I am not sure yet). At the end of the three months she dies, but a lasting impression has been made on her younger brothers and cousin who traveled with them, about the beauty of life and the gracefulness of someone who chooses to live through pain and chooses to live for good and for others.
See for me, this is a very compelling story idea. Think of the pathos of someone fated to die, given three months to live, but still being fully functioning! It’s indescribably painful yet so real because that is our world. Death is something that happens to everyone yet it is not natural. It was never in God’s plan. It comes as a shock every time it happens. How can someone’s body just stop living? These are questions I’m focusing on in other stories, but in this one I am taking the opportunity to dive very deeply into the mindset of (essentially) a CHILD who is sentenced to death and given a time table in which to die.
Anyway forgive my rambling…that was probably more information than you required. The topic is just very important to me because of things I personally have dealt with.
Oh yes, and Crowns of Green is undisclosed as of yet. It is still just a tiny speck of an idea that is growing and I am not quite yet ready to divulge the details.
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@leon-fleming PS sorry for the late response I was performing with my band this weekend and the motor home park we are staying at has very spotty wifi.
@leon-fleming XD I’m afraid they look like messed up attempts at cursive to me. If I had more time, I would like to learn other languages. I’m currently trying Japanese, and I’ve been meaning to learn Korean… Thai or Icelandic would be cool as well. French if everything wasn’t impossible to pronounce. German’s okay, it’s just so hard to spell…
I just looked up toponymy. Very interesting. Tell me more.
Lately, it's been on my brain
Would you mind letting me know
If hours don't turn into days@dragon-snapper Still melting chairs? After all this time, that could become quite an expensive hobby, ya know? Where do you get all that melting material?
@shannoncv That’s too bad, then. Is that why everybody stands here? I must say, “Cut Flowers” sounds most intriguing! And I forgive your rambling spirit; I totally understand that point of the writer. I could get into some pretty bad rants, you know? Nay, on the contrary! That was quite a pleasant amount of information; now I have a pretty clear idea of your story premise, or, part of it. Most interesting, indeed. I understand, completely in a vague sense of the term.
Totally understand! It intrigued me with that “Crowns” and “Green” since both of those are high on my priority list of fantasy writing.
RE: PS Hey, that’s okay! I wrote a submission poem for KP while you were gone, so it really worked out. XD #whatwriter’sdointheirsparetime The list is continuous!
@devastate-lasting Cool; I used to try writing in cursive, but I’ve generally turned toward printing when it comes to writing and such. Cursive is for special occasions. (Plus I need to work on keeping mine consistent. My cursive looks different every time I write in it. XD) I’ll probably be learning French next school year. It’s remarkable how close in resemblance French is to English. Yeah, those would all be cool to learn. I’d like to learn Gaelic, Danish, or Irish, since my ancestral heritage is rooted there. Oh, and Welsh, Finnish, and Swedish. All of these are particularly interesting. Have you ever looked into language families?I’ll say! I don’t know much yet, but I’d think that in order to properly study a place name, one would have to look up the circumstances that the place was named. And it could get into etymology (another one of my interests which I hope to delve deeper into in the future), and various other topics of study. And also mythological context and relation might shed light on place names, particularly somewhere around Greece and maybe Italy.
@leon-fleming No, haven’t really looked at language families. The most I know is that Korean and Japanese are both descended from Chinese, which makes them slightly easier to learn.
You sound like you really like words! Any favorite words?
Lately, it's been on my brain
Would you mind letting me know
If hours don't turn into days@devastate-lasting Yes! I looked into that once when looking into Japanese poetry forms. Very interesting material, there. Oh, yes! Of course! I think my favorite words are petrichor, chrysalism, and tintinnabulation. Though there are indefinitely many others. What about you?
@leon-fleming I like quintessential, nostalgia, and agathokakological. I think there were a few more, but I can’t think of them on the top of my head XD.
Lately, it's been on my brain
Would you mind letting me know
If hours don't turn into days@devastate-lasting Yeah, I like quintessential and nostalgia, too. Do you like agathokakological for its meaning or for its sound and looks? Totally understand. My family kids me for “reading the dictionary” which I do sometimes. There’s this really large green one that we have, with words that aren’t in use anymore. It currently stands as my favourite dictionary at the moment. Are you on Goodreads?
Yep; I definitely like tintinnabulation. That’s in the top one for me.
@leon-fleming I like agathokakological for the meaning. It really resonates with two characters of mine. Yeah, I am on Goodreads, but I don’t use it that often anymore except to update which books I’m reading.
Lately, it's been on my brain
Would you mind letting me know
If hours don't turn into days
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