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I want to know the craziest, most unorthodox sounds in your conlang. If you have multiple, share them in progressing order. I want at least sounds on the levels of [t̼] and [ʡʜ] and [ʈˤ] and whatnot, but the crazier, the better. If you've seen human1011's pronunciation videos, I'd love sounds like those. The craziest. I want to discover new places of articulation and diacritics and everything else. Honestly, though, anything is fine. If the rarest sound you have is [ə] or [n], share it too.

This is an update on this post.

He (no context for you if you don't read the prequel) has returned with the massive, 3-volume book (and the other). I look at its thin pages and there's a sort of mysterious air about the rather regular characters, since there's still some sort of knowledge of the full extent of them. I know some words, but I don't know most. Rivers, flowing, Adam, some woman (I know she is Eve, but I can't tell from the characters), badabada...something something. It's hard to recognize, but it's almost another experience, staring at letters upon footnotes and gently grasping the concepts. He said he might read it to me (similar to a bedtime story, I guess (quite fitting, I suppose)). That's another thing entirely. Maybe one day I'll have fully learned to read Chinese, and I'll have yet a third experience with (t)his book. Even right now, I can just look at it and appreciate the clearly daunting task of translation. At the very least, I have this wonderful book that has travelled the world, and landed on the top of my bookshelf, which I will reserve for my favorite books.

Oh, and, it's absolutely beautiful. The cover reminds me of a collage.

As you may or may have not read, Finnegans Wake has been translated in Chinese (apparently finished 2025.) Knowing my dad was going to China for a bit, I asked him to pick up 2 books (one of the 2 being a dictionary of just about, you know, every one of the less than 80000ish Chinese characters [though he did get me 1 volume only of the hefty {and rather expensive} 9-volume dictionary].) Asides aside, the other was 芬尼根的守灵夜, also known in English as Finnegans Wake. Do I read James Joyce? No. Can I read Chinese? Only a little. Will I finish it? Most likely (and perhaps a bit sadly), no. But as a self-proclaimed lover of certain pleasantly strange things, and Chinese characters and languages and whatnot, I thought that it would be nice if he could pick it up for me. It now stands to me as a compendium of strange Chinese constructions and a rather lovely and pretty three-volume series that I will hopefully study and pore over (a little, whether that is an oxymoron or not) and that will stand nicely on my bookshelf. I will share some notes with you once I get it (for example, bababa...thurnuk is translated into a long string of what I can only briefly describe as mouth-characters [if you are in need of clarification, they're for, among other things, writing out sounds for whatever reason needed]. For now, I am excited as I am waiting to see my book. Tell me if there's anything you want to see from this translation and I'll see if I can pull it out for you later to look at. I am very excited to have this book!

Any artist on Youtube or preferably Spotify with the least views/subscribers/monthly listeners. Not ones that you've just listened to once, though you can mention those too. I'm asking about the ones you listen to pretty routinely. For me, it's 박주화, they have 6 monthly listeners on Spotify.

This is a kind of neat little feature I have in my """conlang""". Now that I think about it, it's just conjugation, but it's MY conjugation, okay? Well, with that over, I present to you: the twin consonant system! My conlang (a work in progress, for a non-conlanging competition) has cases. This is my first one that I'm actually getting into, so I figure, why not test things out? It's halfway just a joke language. Besides that, I made some cases (which, of course, are the most strange ones I could think of.) The way to add them is with twin consonants. Each word is exactly four CV syllables. There are counterparts to each consonant; usually, these are voiced and unvoiced, but because (somehow,) I still can't do any voiceless nasals, m̼ and r̼̊ are counterparts, along with some other consonants I decided I didn't want to figure out how to do unvoiced. The cases are marked by which syllables do and don't have a voiced consonant, ex. the conformative case is represented by UUVV, so "in compliance with the law", would be kat̪iruʊzə, as the base form of laws is kat̪iɾuʊsə. This is one of my favorite parts of the language, just because I've been thinking about it for a while, first as when I tried and failed to make a vertically written conlang with the same consonant system, but for animacy. I didn't actually even know manners or places of articulation.

Has anyone made anything similar, and if you have, what was it? I'm wondering if anyone has had the same idea as me.

i don't know if this fits, but i've written two passages. if you can decode them, you'll get... well, I don't know. but i can nearly guarantee you can't. it's really obscure.

mi ꉂ 作 མོཀུ. and my likee 米其 chow chow 和学 saina side 的 nasin pi 罩罩卑剪. ni li make 我 pilim хорошеньки 𥡦𢦡𧠔. learnado about 𝧿𝨾𝤆𝣴𝪧 es chiste multe kepada saya. jedzenie jest bôm, don't you ᏈᎵᏅ sama? sôm li favorito mi

 སིན mituni плохо ꁧ mi a! mi ratang sin la 你可以无礼貌吗？ 㕭都乜治 afinadoya 𝈵ᑭ 【照片】 tan pi talkee bilong yu. 㕭卑剪糯巴罅巴. I 呾話 uma قِطْعَة  ᑕᓐ ni: 挨灣治 ⱀⰹ to [tɚn] suuri.

decode one passage, or two. anyways, if this breaks the rules, i will take it off of here. sorry in advance if this is the wrong kind of puzzle!