Post List

It’s been a while, and I have a few updates for you. First, Pangrammatike is moving from Wordpress to Substack. Substack ...

Sometimes translating things is a great way to get a feel for conlangs. I’ve been thinking more about mine over ...

A few years ago, I decided to write something that spoke to the experience of growing up Neopagan — one ...

One of the puzzles with having a somewhat lively religious blog is that there is more incentive for me to ...

I wrote this short piece back in 2017 when I was working through worldbuilding for the main universe I write ...

This weekend, I spent a bit of time updating my main website, kayeboesme.com. I switched from a hard-coded HTML5 site ...

2020 was a year. I went into it with several creative goals, and this blog post will serve as a ...

Day 23 Kño /kɲõ/, package.Gnabikño /gnɑ.bi.ˈkɲõ/, warehouse district.Kñoäi /kɲõ.ha͜ɪ/, to pack. This becomes to send if the object takes the -ös suffix. Il ịmlatyas mes Tærin ademlzabe il kño åku.Your (pl.) packages are ...

Day 16 Välit /vɑ̤.ˈlit/, 1. to focus; 2. to carve; 3. to sharpen.Elt /ɛlt/, repetitive.Ënselt /ɛ̝̤n.ˈsɛlt/, monotonous. Il loft välssarri kolbhe.I sharpen the knives tomorrow. Diphya ovälzabeneu?Why can’t you all focus right ...

Day 8 Kabsi /kɑb.ˈsi/, to light. Irregular root kazi /kɑ.ˈzi/Osnet /os.ˈnɛt/, destruction. K’ibånibhe kazisus.We (excl.) lit the oil lamp. Kazi æ kaz nakyæla Sabahjen — bhet i besun æ i kaza, i osnet ...

This Lexember, I decided to work on Narahji because I felt like it was neglected. Here’s what I’ve been adding ...

The paperback of Acts of Speech is available for purchase. It has been listed automatically on Amazon and on the more ethical alternative ...

Acts of Speech is now out and in the wild in e-format. (The print is a bit delayed due to the ...

I walked an hour to the secure ballot dropbox and back, or thirty minutes each way. Here is a quick ...

The logistics of Acts of Speech are coming together. When I decided to self-publish a poetry book, it was partially ...

I.The void, too, bubbles:Voidless static sunders us,swelling years yawn wide. II.Follow the linelessharmony as she builds up —bursts forth — a ...

8 AM — a dullsky oozing through glass,storms forecast — a lullof stillness must pass, one more hollow hourbefore work should ...

Most of my poems either go by syllable count, (more or less) iambic pentameter, or a combination. This has been ...

An update on my writing/conlang blog about a poetry book I’m putting together.

General writing update: Yesterday, January 1, Reckoning 4 was released. The literary journal features speculative writing on environmental justice. #4 ...

December 25 Heneån /ˈhɛ.nə͡ɔn/, n. Class D. Dampener, as in something that reduces noise. Plural heneåmua. Heneåni, dampened. Aheneånit, to dampen, to reduce noisiness. Heneånịfua, earplugs. Ịf /ɪf/, n. ...

My annual year in review post, with a focus on writing: Some stats, some project updates, reflections on how much ...

December 16 Today’s word showcases some stuff I talked about back in 2017 — namely, that the articles in Tveshi occasionally ...

This is a short story — 6,200 words — about a group of young adults in their 20s who decide ...

December 8 Sau /sa͡ʊ/, n. Class D.  Journey. Sauyi /ˈsa͡ʊ.ji/, relating to journeys. Asauyit /ʌ.ˈsa͡ʊ.jit̪/, to travel. Iasau, pilgrimage. Nusauyi, culturally astute, well-traveled. Nusaukouri, someone who has made traveling a profession. Enasau, religious procession. Sauyåssị, any god ...

It is once again Lexember, the time of year when conlangers work on our lexicons. Looking Back Last year, I wrote ...

crush thesecertain flower petalsthe pulp redhot beneath your fingerssticky, sweet, spicywhat it touchesit changesdeepening gracewe will ascend likedoves into the ...

A Quattro pad with detached sheets. I really like the feel of this paper and how it behaves with the ...

As of today, I have a short story available in The Society of Misfit Stories Presents… February 2019 issue! In “Ash Shades,” two women survive the ...

This is the final leg of #Lexember! If you’ve been following my account @eamarubhe, you may be interested in following ...

In which I review major things I accomplished this year. I wrote 321,000 words and spent ~354 hours in creative ...

This week, how dark it is outside really hit me. The library where I work is in a basement, and ...

Updates from Days 8-14 of #Lexember. This includes more content than Twitter for #eamarubhe. Specifically, despite no cats being on ...

https://twitter.com/kayeboesme/status/1007754259352510464 This is the language that I am building. ɛ͡ɒ̈.ˈmɑ.ˌðy.βɛbh = βr = /ɾ/ in all places but before /u/, /ɒ̈/, and /ɑ/, ...

I’ve worked from maps for science fiction stories since I was in my mid- to late teens. According to writers ...

Before I get going: read my poem (and all of the other stories and poems) in the summer issue of ...

I’m moving a few older posts from Tumblr to my main conlang blog. This is a sketch of a language ...

I saw a question on Twitter that was posted on Metafilter about words for librarian in “geek languages,” which was ...

For those of you who loved my podcast Epiphany, guess what? I’m working on a podcast called Ossia right now, ...

So, after 54 chapters and one cultural primer on the systems of gender in the country Tveshė, Epiphany: The Story ...

When I was in my mid/late twenties, I transitioned from writing stories that used he and she to writing stories where I ...

Writing-wise, 2017 was an interesting year. This is the part where I talk about a variety of projects related to ...

I have a lot of lexember stuff below, most of it from Twitter. Since I have more than 280 characters ...

First off, Happy Winter Solstice to everyone! ☀️🌃 In Tveshi, that would be Keshehio Oinnuporåsėo mesah! — You.DAT Winter Solstice.CAUS solidarity/hello/salutations. Indirect objects ...

Lexember has been going well, and one of its biggest benefits is that I’ve started rendering things in IPA. Going ...

I only have one LaTeX page of my incredibly poor late-teens-early-twenties dictionary decision to go in the A section. Then, ...

When I was reading the 56 Hikol piece about Tehjen, I did not render Narahji in the IPA — although ...

I spent about an hour and a half working on my Tveshi dictionary and wrote up about 10-15 entries, which ...

I wanted to translate “lexember” into Tveshi. It would have been an ideal Day One, but yesterday, I participated in ...

This is (another) partial repost from Tumblr, but it’s relevant to the past few Epiphany episodes — a proverb came up ...

Tomorrow is #lexember. I’m not a #NaNoWriMo person because, as an academic librarian, my achievable word count the month I ...

To conclude, we believe views about the beauty and ugliness of languages and dialects are built on cultural norms, pressures ...

(A partial repost from Tumblr with some new content.) The Narahji spoken in Epiphany is not always internally consistent because it’s the ...

2016 and 2017 have been draining years. The social media cycles of alarm help us build coalitions, beg for basic ...