I woke up this morning to discover that Lexember has crept up on me once again. And once again, all of the old arguments of “it’s a bad time of year for this,” “I’m probably just going to run out of steam after a few weeks,” “…but the holidays…” “but I haven’t got a language in mind to work on…” Meh. No angst this year. I’ll join in and play along, and when it gets overwhelming, I’ll stop. I might skip a day here and there. No use working myself into knots about it.
After a great deal of thought – well, as great a deal as I’ve had time to think since the first #Lexember hashtag floated by on my screen this morning and I realized what month it is – I’ve decided to avoid working on Europic, because everyone is probably sick of seeing it, and I’ll be working on it throughout the month anyway without making it a part of Lexember. Gothic Romance isn’t any better off than it was 350 days ago. If I were smart, I’d work on Ox-Yew (Adzaay), because I’m going to need to get it beefed up soon so I can start using it to influence future Europic, but… I don’t wanna.
I think instead I’m going to spend some quality time with Valthungian, which I’ve been ignoring for a while now. Before I got too wrapped up in Europic (and descendants), I had implemented a liquid exflunctification rule in Old Valthungian that rejiggernated a lot of words containing L’s and R’s, but I never sat down and sorted them all out properly, so even though there are a lot of words that aren’t really “new,” they’ve definitely never been seen before in their current pokéform.
With that in mind, here’s new Valthungian word for Lexember Day 1, updated for new L rules…
šuvaþljúþ, n. vowel.
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