#AristillusSpoilers
So one of the themes in Aristillus 3 and 4 is the intentional creation of culture vs the emergent contingent creation of culture.
As part of this, there are groups of Dogs developing a new language (conlang = constructed language).
I'm doing lots of >
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2/ research on dog vocalizations (no whistling, more palatal locatbconlions, perhaps less fine lip control so less resolution in bilabial fricatives ? no emouchure, so no whistling) and also on dog sensorium and its potential impact on mental concepts BUT ANYWAY that's all
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3/ beside the point that I want to make today, which is that in-book Dog conlang (a) needs new sounds and thus new letters, (b) is developed by very high IQ sperg dogs, who are massive nerds, and who code, and thus know unicode, and thus (c) they will, in-book, use >>>
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4/ Private Use Areas in unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas#Private_Use_Areas … and maybe even the corner of PU areas that are already colonized by conlangs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConScript_Unicode_Registry … and thus code points e.g. D0000–D00FF could be used for both Dog Script both IN THE BOOK AND IRL TO DESCRIBE THE BOOK
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5/ ...and this tickles me to no end.
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6/ not for another ~90 yearshttps://twitter.com/hatefollows/status/1296531866455928832 …
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