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Robin @inthescales.com · 24/09/2026
You can see it shows several different forms, as well as some added grammatical information - it's conjugation. Internally, the word has three "stem" forms, which combined with the conjugation type can be used to generate every possible form of the word. These can be arranged in a table like this:
Top part of a full inflection paradigm for the Latin non-word "florpo". About three dozen different forms of the word, "florpo, florpis, florpit, florpimus", and so on. Just like you learned in Latin class.The bottom part of that inflection table, with imperative, infinitive, and participle forms.
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Robin @inthescales.com · 24/09/2026
My work so far on Lyre's 2nd ed., after setting up some basic foundations of word structure, has focused on generating inflection paradigms for words — that is, all the different forms a word can take depending on how it's used. As an example, here's an entry for the Latin non-word "florpō".
florpō, florpere, florpsī, florptus - verb (3rd conjugation)
to florp
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Robin @inthescales.com · 22/08/2026
It's just better this way
Headline from news publication Hell Gate, titled "Hochul heads Into Nail-Biter Reelection With...Criticism of Mamdani?". The word "reelection" is spelled with a diaeresis: "reëlection"
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Robin @inthescales.com · 22/03/2025
Here's what I've been working on this last month: a web tool for designing spelling systems for English. If you've ever been frustrated with how hard it is to spell and read English, now's your chance to fix it. inthescales.com/pages/spellk...
Screenshot of a web page. A table of English sounds with letters and letter combinations next to them, and a short text written in the typical style, and then again converted into the new system.
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Robin @inthescales.com · 20/03/2025
Page with the title "English Spelling", above a medieval illustration of an angel rescuing little naked people from hell, depicted as the fanged and fiery mouth of a giant beast
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Robin @inthescales.com · 10/03/2025
what am i doing reinventing the wheel, our friends on the continent have already developed perfectly functional systems for writing germanic languages in the latin alphabet
Screenshot of just the text conversion input output of this page. A paragraph about the history of childhood education in Britain, rendered in a spelling designed to imitate German. For example, the "sh" sound is rendered s-c-h, the vowel in 'line' as e-i, etc.
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Robin @inthescales.com · 05/03/2025
fuck i used a twice ok i'm fixing it
Similar screenshot, converting text from the Wikipedia entry on Ronald Kingsley Read.
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Robin @inthescales.com · 04/03/2025
it's ok i'm fixing it
Screen capture from a roughly made web page. At the top, under a tab labelled "Custom", a form. Name: "English 2". A table with text fields representing each sound in English (US pronunciation) filled with one or two letters each. Individually they might appear conventional, except for one stray umlaut and one incongruous double 'r'. Below, a button labelled "convert", a large text field pasted in with that speech from Macbeth with "full of sound and fury" and all that in it. Beside that box, an output of the same text converted into the spelling system detailed at the top, looking completely stupid (but phonologically consistent)
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Robin @inthescales.com · 21/12/2024
Your ass got digitized
pixel art reinterpretation of one of the above imagespixel art reinterpretation of the other image
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Robin @inthescales.com · 06/12/2024
there's something poetic about this language from LRP
this man's WIFE (e.g. John's wife).

a. someone, a woman, people can say about her "the is this man's wife"
b. people can say about a woman "she is this man's wife" when they can know that it is like this:
this man can live with this woman as a man can live with a woman when it is like this:
the is the mother of a child, he is the father of this child
c. people can know that it is like this because they can know that some time before, some people di some things
as people often do when they want it to be like this
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Robin @inthescales.com · 27/11/2024
for a nice effect, I recommend opening as many of the files from each folder as you can at once and collaging them across your screen
Screenshot of desktop with various image and text files spread across it, creating a collage-like scene of an armed guard in front of a stone gate, a dog on cobblestones, descriptions of sounds and nervous thoughts
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Robin @inthescales.com · 23/11/2024
little person who lives in a web site
pen doodles of a person with long wavy hair

one, sleepy-faced, head in hand. another, looking upward presenting a flower
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Robin @inthescales.com · 20/11/2024
doing some research for a little project, it's adorable to me that some 15th century cook decided to write their recipes out in rhyme
Screenshot from a PDF discussing two Middle English words for broth, and two short recipes written in Middle English rhyming verse
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Robin @inthescales.com · 29/10/2024
getting a late start but going to try playing around with braid/knot patterns for #procjam
simple web page showing "width" and "height" fields and a "generate" button, and a canvas showing a pixel-y rendering of a two-corded braid pattern in red and blue
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Robin @inthescales.com · 20/10/2024
Mocking up a new design for the Lyre's Dictionary homepage. Would appreciate any feedback on which of these feels best, or how it could be better
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Robin @inthescales.com · 08/10/2024
NYC: 2 Hour Game Jam Club, making interactive fiction with Tinychoice, is happening at Wonderville this Saturday Come make a little game, no experience required!
Flyer for "Monthly two hour game jame club"

Tiny choice hypertext interaction fiction

Wonderville saturday october 12th
Doors at 1pm
Workshop at 1:30
Jam from 2pm to 4pm

There's also a scribbly drawing of a cow and a pig labelled "cow" and "pig"
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Robin @inthescales.com · 01/10/2024
Screencap from the OED: a long list of historical forms of the word 'porcupine', including the ones from the preceding postMore of the same
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