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Lexember 9

Lexember 9

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 8

Lexember 8

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 7

Lexember 7

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 6

Lexember 6

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 5

Lexember 5

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 4

Lexember 4

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 3

Lexember 3

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 2

Lexember 2

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Lexember 1

Lexember 1

Welcome to the Lexember Challenge! Every year, conlangers can take the opportunity for the month of December to challenge ourselves to add a new word to our conlang’s lexicon. What word have you coined today? Any cultural or associated worldbuilding notes? Tell us about your inspiration!

Impending Lexember

Impending Lexember

Lexember is the annual December conlanging challenge to create a new word in your lexicon each day of the month and share it. The Lexember posts will start on December 1 and run through new year. Happy conlanging!

The Literary Week – Day 7

The Literary Week – Day 7

For the last quote of the week, I bring you: “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.” — William Shakespeare, Macbeth My deepest apologies for being late again today. If I am ever to do another challenge, I shall endeavor to schedule it at least 3 days in advance, rather than one.

The Literary Week – Day 5

The Literary Week – Day 5

Sorry I’m late today, but it’s okay: I’ve got a good one. “He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors – and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine…” ― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

The Literary Week – Day 4

The Literary Week – Day 4

Hopefully finding these quotes doesn’t turn out to be more fun than translating them. Oh well, today, I bring you: “If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!” – Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn As with yesterday, I’ll have to come back to this to do my own translation in a comment.

The Literary Week – Days 2 & 3

The Literary Week – Days 2 & 3

Woops, I went out of town and forgot about this challenge. So today I figured I’d do two quotes and call it even. We should be returning to the proper schedule after today though. “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a…

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