#IPA Chart

[bonefall]

hey so i uh. i saw the lack of an official ipa chart, and got carried away and made my own

notes:

no dental consonants or rounded vowels/semivowels, consistent with what you've said about the phonology

i've seen ⟨ss⟩ described on here both as [ç] and as the welsh ll [ɬ], so i put both in

not sure about the identification of ⟨'⟩ as [ʔ], but i put it in anyway

tumblr's search system is broken enough that i'm relying exclusively on memory for id'ing ⟨ch⟩ as [x]; i haven't put in any entries for ⟨ff⟩ or ⟨aa⟩ at all for similar reasons

the [e~ɛ] in the entry for ⟨e⟩ means it can be pronounced anywhere from [e] (close-mid front unrounded) to [ɛ] (open-mid front unrounded)

i did not include phonemes only found in loanwords like the ⟨j⟩ in ⟨jyg⟩

This is SUPER helpful, thank you for this, let me see if I can help more;

Yep, no dental consonants. I try to model the words by keeping my mouth stiff, limited range of motion like a cat.

Ss is the Welsh ɬ, can confirm, I explicitly modeled the ss off Welsh lessons I am taking. If I ever described it differently that's a goof on my part

I've been using ' as a sort of soft stop AND as something to separate dipthongs, which is a bad habit I need to break. Hrra'a for Breeze is a stop that mimics a wind stopping and picking up again, but I was also using it in a case like, Snakestripe (Sis'seek), to make the phonology clear. I'll start using hyphens (-) for making names clear. Apostrophe (') is a pause.

CH is rolled on the roof of the mouth, like Welsh "Diolch." Ff is an arbitrary softer, longer f and Aa is just "A" held longer.

That's fine for E, I think I've been inconsistent with it to be fair. I mean for it to be pronounced as the first E in Elephant. "Eh." It's never silent. "Swole" is "Sw-oh-leh"

Good call; J is Townmew exclusive. "Jyg" has phonemes found only in Townmew. (If you're curious, it's similar to the Tch in Tchochke, like the Ch of Chirp. In English I would write Jyg as Tchig and it rhymes with Pig.)

I love this chart, absolutely will be keeping it on hand, thank you!!

#clanmew #ipa chart

[lingthusiasm]

What if the IPA looked like weird nerd art and you could put it in your pocket?

The International Phonetic Alphabet chart is sometimes called the periodic table of linguistics -- an important technical diagram that's also visually interesting and which many linguists hang up on a wall, carry around inside a notebook, or simply know the exact keystrokes that'll get them to a page to type or listen to it.

Like with the periodic table of the elements, the layout of the IPA chart is a key to what the symbols mean: from top to bottom, the chart goes roughly from sounds where the mouth is the most closed to the most open, and from left to right, it goes from sounds where the constriction is the front of the mouth to the back of the mouth. This means that many linguists only know well the parts of the IPA that they encounter regularly in languages they work with, and rely on their knowledge of the overall structure to retrieve other parts on occasion. Hence the need to have it handy to refer to.

But there's also an important way in which the IPA chart and the periodic table differ: art. If you want a handy reference chart of the elements for your wall or your pocket, there are hundreds of possible designs, ranging from subtle, minimalist designs that look like cool nerdy art to intricate, maximalist designs with all the technical detail you might possibly want to refer to.

With the International Phonetic Alphabet, most people are still printing out (or occasionally stickering, or laminating) the same greyscale diagram from the International Phonetic Association. We, your Lingthusiasm cohosts, have a lot of affection for this classic design, which we've spent many hours poring over (especially the forbidden grey areas, ahem), but we also wondered, wouldn't it be cool if there was a more subtle, minimal version that would look more like weird-yet-stylish nerd art and less like a diagram from an academic paper?

Well...we know a linguist-artist. So we put this idea to Lucy Maddox, who's brought you previous Lingthusiasm art such as the space babies, the schwa never stressed pins, the "thanks" and "congrats" greeting cards, the bouba/kiki shapes, and more. And Lucy was excited about it too!

After many months of back-and-forth on coming up with and refining the design, we're very excited to share the near-final design with you! 

[Image description: an abstract, minimalist* rendering of the International Phonetic Alphabet as a grid of white, sans-serif letters on a midnight blue background, with no row or column headings. Bright green is used as an accent colour, for solid green circles around the voiceless consonants; white circles with green font for the rounded vowels, and narrow green borders around the lateral sounds. There's a small lingthusiasm logo in the bottom corner and a translucent "demo" watermark splashed in the background.]

*Yes, we know there's a syntax theory called Minimalism as well, which this has no real relationship to because it's a different subfield. Consider it a bonus easter egg!

(By the way, the design still has "demo" on it because, while we've checked it with several very helpful phonetics/phonology friends, there remains a possibility that there's a typo somewhere which the linguistics internet at large will tell us about before we get it printed. Hey, did we mention -- if you notice a typo here, now would be a GREAT time to tell us about it before we print a zillion copies.)

We've actually recorded a whole episode chatting with Lucy about the design process, which will be September's bonus episode, but a few brief notes about our design inspirations until then:

First, we were inspired by the ad-hoc IPA diagrams that linguists draw quickly on blackboards and notebooks when they want to discuss a point, which just have the minimal amount of information, and which generally don't have any labels for the rows or columns. So we ditched the labels. This is an IPA chart for people who already understand the general principles of reading an IPA chart, even if they don't quite remember all the symbols -- everything should be figure-out-able based on its position relative to common, well-known symbols. Same with the various circles for non-positional information: if you know that the difference between /p/ and /b/ is that /p/ is voiceless and /b/ is voiced, you can deduce that the solid green circle also indicates voicing for less familiar symbols. Or, if you're inclined to puzzles, this is an IPA chart for people who enjoy the challenge of decoding what some cool-looking symbols mean based on some familiar ones with maybe an assist from Wikipedia or a clickable IPA chart.

But wait -- this left us with a conundrum. The main consonant and vowel charts are totally decodable based on position. But there are also two other extra consonant charts which contain a grab-bag of other symbols arranged in no particularly decodable order. Simply removing the headings from these charts left them confusing. But after all, the IPA sounds are all produced with the same vocal apparatus...could we just fit them all into one diagram? It turns out that this (eventually, after much tweaking) looks really neat. And, we think, even makes these oft-disregarded consonants easier to remember.

Oh and by the way, since the 1900 version of the IPA chart had the consonants and vowels all on the same diagram, what if we included the vowels on there too? (We could not, alas, figure out a way of arranging the diacritics to make their meanings decodable from position only, so in the end we omitted them. If anyone does figure this out, please do let us know and we can talk about a revised version.)

With such a cool-looking IPA design, we also wanted to make it exist as a durable, tiny, lightweight object that you could carry with you everywhere and which might even be useful for secondary purposes. Which brings us to...lens cloths!

Lens cloths are a small, durable format for a reference image and you can use them to clean glasses, sunglasses, screens, camera lenses, and so on. Plus, they're a kind of merch we've never been able to do before, because lens cloth printing companies want you to place orders in the hundreds or ideally thousands.

Thousands? Oh, that brings us to The Plan:

We're going to place ONE (1) massive order for aesthetic IPA chart lens cloths on October 6, 2022. If you want one, be a patron at the Lingthusiast tier or higher on October 5th, 2022, timezone: anywhere in the world. If you’re already a patron at that tier, then you’re set! (That's the tier where you also get bonus episodes and the Discord access, we've never run a special offer at this tier before but we think this time it'll be worth it!)

If you want several IPA lens cloths, to give to friends or to make double extra sure you never leave home without one, you can also join the higher tiers (or stick around if you're already there). Patrons as the Ling-phabet tier will get 4 lens cloths and patrons at the Phil-ling-thropist tier will receive 12, in addition to the other rewards at those tiers.

We've ordered sample lens cloths from several different companies and we're really pleased with the quality of the company we're planning on going with -- the design will be entirely sublimated into the microfibre material so there's nothing to scratch your lenses, and it has a satisfying thickness and image resolution. The lens cloth production company estimates about a 2 week turnaround on ordering, so we expect we'll be mailing the lens cloths in late October or early November, which *should* be plenty of time for the major winter gifting holidays, assuming the supply chains cooperate.

We do also want to make this sleek aesthetic IPA chart design available on posters and possibly other objects (tell us what you'd be excited about in the comments below!) but that's going to take a second phase of design work to also make the design look good as a rectangle in addition to a square and figure out some additional colour options to go with a variety of decors. To be honest, running the square design as a special offer is also a bit of a test-run/fundraiser for the rectangular stage of the design, since we've already put quite a lot of our own energy and paying-the-designer into it. If people aren't as excited as we are about this idea, then maybe a rectangular version and/or more colours don't need to exist. Which would be fine too! But, I mean, c'mon.

If you know other linguists or linguistics fans who might be excited to have a snazzy aesthetic IPA chart that they can carry around with them (plus, y'know, get access to the usual Patreon perks like bonus Lingthusiasm episodes and a Discord server that's enthusiastic about linguistics), please help them find out about this before it's too late! We are not planning to ever order a second batch of IPA lens cloths, so this is your one chance to get them.

Whew, that was a long post! Here's the highlights: 

[Image description: What if the International Phonetic Alphabet looked like weird nerd art? Get this design (arrow to previously-described abstract IPA demo) on a handy-to-carry lens cloth (image of those microfibre cloths you clean glasses with; these are not the actual cloths but just to give you an idea of the genre). (Tiny abstract drawing of Lauren & Gretchen silhouettes from the website.) We're placing one bulk order for everyone who's a Lingthusiast patron or higher as of October 5, 2022. Sign up at patreon.com/lingthusiasm]

Stay lingthusiastic!

Gretchen and Lauren

#linguistics #phonetics #International Phonetic Alphabet #IPA #IPA Chart #art #linguistics art #linguistics merch #lingthusiasm #patreon #patreon special offer #special offer #special offer 2022

[saffronnoodle]

It makes me really angry when I’m just casually talking about another language and someone else just randomly speaks up and makes some kind of racist comment.

“I’m learning the Vietnamese alphabet! It’s really cool—”

*My dad proceeding to make the really stereotypical “Chinese” speech and then being mad at me when I don’t find it funny*

Or another example is just when I’m talking about sounds made in other languages that don’t exist in English and people feel the need to insert something like “that sounds like you’re trying to throw up”. It happens a lot when I teach other people the [x] sound on the IPA chart and it makes me even angrier because people will go on and on about how “it sounds weird and unnatural” even though it is among the most common sounds in world languages. It’s in Greek, Russian, Arabic, Scottish Gaelic, Hebrew, etc.

Even past the fact that it’s annoying I personally don’t like it either because it’s just not really encouraging. I just want to have a space to share my interests and bond and I don’t want to have to be met all the time by people stating that it’s weird or stop the flow of the conversation entirely just to make a “joke”.

Anyways, that’s it. Thank you for reading my rant post.

#ipa chart #language learning #rant post

[nyanconlang]

IPA chart

For those new to conlanging and/or linguistics, here is the IPA chart for most consonants:

I'm not the best at describing how to read it but basically, the boxes further to the left are closer to the lips (with the bilabial consonants being made just with the lips) and the further right, the closer to the throat (with glottal consonants being made deep in the throat). From the top to the bottom are different manners of articulation, or how the sound is made.

Those letters in the boxes in pairs are different in voicing, with the voiced version on the right, and the unvoiced on the left. Voicing is just whether your vocal cords are vibrating. Say p versus b, and lightly touch your throat; you'll feel the vibrations in your throat when you say b but not when you say p. There are other variations on sounds (phones) that can work similarly to voicing, but voicing is one of the most common. I'll bring up others as they come up.

One to look forward to, due to it being common in Old Japanese, is prenasalization. But as a quick rundown, it's when two consonants are differentiated by whether or not the sound starts with a nasal bit. Think like saying nt, but as one sound. Sometimes it occurs as a nasal aspect on the previous vowel, or just as a sound that starts nasal and ends without it. Different languages act differently!

There's also a chart for vowels, and some symbols for common sounds that are actually a little weird. (w in English and a few other languages has TWO places that it restricts the air, and so it can't go in just one box. Instead, it's called a labial-velar consonant, constricting at the lips and at the back of the mouth. Sometimes it patterns with the labials like p and b, sometimes with velars like k and g.

As a last note, when writing out the sounds of a word, / / is for a broad transcription, when you just want to get the basics across, while putting symbols between [ ] is for narrow transcription and requires a lot more detail. For this project, I'm almost always going to use / /, but occasionally when smaller details help explain something happening, I'll add a transcription between [ ].

#linguistics #IPA chart #references

[hydn-jpg]

based on this stupid pick-up line that i have no business liking so much but do anyway

(idc how you say his name in other stuff but for this joke it's specifically pronounced Noël/'no-elle')

#i just found out that for boys 'noel' is typically pronounced as 'nowl'/'no-uhl' and that is so fascinating to me !!! #i've personally always pronounced it as no-elle #it's spelt '노엘' in korean which is pronounced 'no-elle' so that's how i say it #ig the pronunciation mostly differs on location? but the consensus shows that /ˈnoʊəl/ is what's typical of males apparently #didn't expect to have to pull up the ole IPA chart for a tumblr post #whatever man this is just a stupid pun that i like lol it's not that deep #playchoices #choices cop #choices crimes of passion #crimes of passion #choices fanart #trystan thorne #the loml #mc: noel rose #my art #hydn.jpg

[angelboybreakdowns]

#im too tired to go through ipa charts so you get these random explanations/examples of each #polls

[gatoplanet]

do you think dave was there when klaus got the klaus loves dave tattoo? what wouldve been his reaction?

“You don’t actually have to tell me what it means,” Dave says. “If you don’t want to.”

He’s looking at the tattoo again, mostly as an excuse to touch Klaus’s bare stomach, not that he needs much of an excuse at this point, but also because it’s the most beautiful tattoo he’s ever seen in person. Every line is delicate, perfectly balanced between his ribs. It’s symmetrical, but when Dave gets close enough, he can spot all the little natural variations in strokes that show it was done freehand.

“Nah, I’ll tell you,” Klaus says.

Dave should probably check over his shoulder to make absolutely sure they’re still alone, but Klaus’s skin is right under his nose, so he leans in the rest of the way and kisses it before he pulls back.

“Okay, Klaus says, scooting up until he’s nearly in Dave’s lap in the dirt, “keep in mind that my Thai is rusty, and dad only really ever taught us how to do PR and negotiate hostage release anyway, so I’m taking Phichit’s word on some of this, but it looks right, I think? It doesn’t not look right. The top line is right, I know that.”

“Start there, then.”

Klaus leans back on one hand, which stretches out his whole torso, and Dave almost reaches out and grabs his waist, but Dave’s been asking this question for five days, so he doesn’t immediately derail things by getting handsy. Klaus’s hips will still be there in a few minutes, probably.

“So this,” Klaus says, pointing to ยู with his free hand, “that’s U - basically U, an english U - and that,” he points to เอ, “is A.”

“Umbrella Academy?”

“Yep,” Klaus says, popping the p.

“I love that,” Dave says. “It’s like - it’s a tattoo for your family?”

It’s not surprising. For all that Klaus insists he doesn’t mind hanging around in this decade until Dave can finish his tour, there’s a look he gets when he talks about his brothers and sisters. It’s probably why he understood so easily when he asked Dave to come home with him, and Dave said he would, but that he needed to go home first, too.

“Sort of, I guess,” Klaus says. He taps the ยู with his finger again, then the เอ.

“So the rest is - what, all their names?”

“My name’s the next line,” Klaus says. He runs his finger along the boxes that spell out เคลาส์. “That’s pretty close to Klaus, which is cool. Maybe that’s why dad had me do Thai? I always thought Thai, German, and Tamil were a random main three to give me, but - yeah, that’s K, L, these little guys,” he points with two fingers at เ and า, “that’s like, owu.”

“Is this Hargreeves?” Dave touches the เดวิด along the bottom row, which is maybe playing with fire in terms of keeping them on topic, but also, Klaus is nice to touch. “It doesn’t look long enough.”

“Not, um,” Klaus says. “Not Hargreeves, no.”

“It can’t be everyone’s names, there aren’t enough spaces for that, either. Is it Ben?”

“Not Ben.”

“I recognize this,” Dave says, and he traces over the character at the start of the row. “Owu.”

“Part of it, yeah.”

Dave glances up at Klaus’s face, which is a little more flushed than it usually gets while Dave’s still above the belt. 

“This one was sort of the hard one,” Klaus says, all in a rush, “because like, obviously when you’re going between languages, there are sounds they have and sounds they don’t, there are a ton of sounds in Thai that it takes like a million English letters to make, if you even can, so this - we had to get creative, I guess, and we, here,” he points at วิ, “this is technically a W sound? Because there’s no, um. There’s not really a V.”

Dave looks at it.

“So it’s not perfect,” Klaus says. “These are D, though,” and he points to the ด on either side, “and that - I think it mostly gets the point acro-“

Dave grabs his waist and kisses him.

Klaus makes a soft noise and slips his arms around Dave’s shoulders, and they do what they inevitably end up doing whenever they have time to themselves. They’re both scratchy with stubble and Dave’s mouth probably tastes how the rest of him smells, but Klaus presses forward and licks between his teeth anyway. Dave likes Klaus’s body no matter what state it’s in. Maybe that goes both ways.

“You are crazy,” Dave says, when he can bring himself to pull away.

Klaus nips at Dave’s lip. “S’that the good kind of crazy?”

“The best kind of - Klaus, you got my name,” Dave says, and then he laughs, he can’t help it. “You better hope we don’t piss off anyone who reads Thai.”

“If we do,” Klaus says, “I can - well, I can either be really formal or really aggressive, and I might accidentally call you a prisoner? But-“

Dave kisses Klaus some more.

They have time together tonight, but not that much time, so they let the kisses trail off after a while. Klaus is fully in Dave’s lap now, his legs wrapped around Dave’s hips, his fingers in Dave’s hair. He’s beautiful, even coated in a layer of dirt from the last four days of marching. He’ll be beautiful after four more weeks of it, four more months, right up until they march all the way out of here.

“You’re not mad?” Klaus asks, softly.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been less mad.”

Klaus hums and tucks his nose into Dave’s curls.

Dave rests the tips of his first two fingers on the รัก at the very center of the temple. “What’s this one?”

“Ah,” Klaus says into Dave’s forehead. “Well.”

“It’s just one letter, right? Or two?”

“No, that’s actual Thai.” Klaus sits back enough to look at his own belly again. “Yeah, rạk.”

“Rak.”

“Loves,” Klaus says, “is, um. Is what that means.”

Dave opens his mouth, but nothing comes out of it, so he shuts it again.

“Oh, sweetheart,” Klaus says, “don’t-” and he swipes his thumbs over Dave’s cheeks, which are wet. “You already knew that. I tell you all the time.”

“I know,” Dave says.

“Do I need to tell you more often?”

“No,” Dave says, and then he sniffs, embarrassingly. “No, it just.”

He’s not actually sure what it just was leading up to, so he lets Klaus pull his face into the curve of his neck instead. He wraps one arm around Klaus’s waist, and keeps the other between them. The skin is a little raised everywhere the tattoo gun landed. Maybe Dave can learn the shapes of the letters by touch before they heal.

“This is it,” Klaus says, “just FYI. This is, like - this is the gesture. I don’t know if I really have another one in me.”

“I don’t think I could handle another one.”

“I do,” Klaus says. “Love you, a lot, so.”

“I love you, too.”

“I know, baby.”

“I really,” Dave says, “really, really wish we had a door that locked, right now.”

“I’m not saying I’m counting down,” Klaus says, “but-“

“Four months,” Dave says into his collarbone.

“My lucky number.”

Dave lets Klaus hold him a little longer while he gets himself together. He doesn’t start bawling the moment he pulls back and sees Klaus’s stomach, which is a good sign. That’d get inconvenient, with Klaus’s shirt allergy.

He steers Klaus back off his lap and onto the dirt so he can get in close and look at the tattoo some more, and then he kisses it again, right where it says how Klaus feels about him.

“I’ll get one for you,” Dave says. “Once we’re home.”

“Nah, you don’t gotta.”

“I want to. Does anyone in your family speak Yiddish?”

“Just Five,” Klaus says. “He used to, at least. I dunno, forty years in the apocalypse, conjugation is probably the first thing to go.”

“So if I get something really romantic-“

“Oh god, do it, I wanna see his face.”

“Okay,” Dave says. “I’ll get it, and then I’ll wait five days to tell you what it means.”

Klaus says, “Fair’s fair,” and kisses the tip of Dave’s nose.

#kat fic #klave #please tell me if the thai is wrong!! i did my best but in the end it was a collab between me and an ipa chart on wikipedia

[fivenightsatcorans]

gently holding the hands of the author of any wikipedia phonology article for a language that uses the latin alphabet: it’s okay, you can use your IPA here. yes i know a lot of the symbols look similar. this is a phonoooollloooogyyyy article, so we have to use standard symbols or people who don’t know the language won’t understand

#if you do not specify what ipa symbol the letter of the alphabet represents i will not understand it #every european language uses the ö symbol to represent a different sound. just because it’s in the article for finnish doesn’t mean i know #where the finnish ö is on a vowel chart in comparison with like. the german ö or something

[courtingwonder]

Chart Showing Mouth Locations Used for Phonetics in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) along with English Examples

#phonetics #english #language #communication #IPA #alphabet #infographic #infographics #chart #charts #interesting #fascinating #fun #educational

[j-hawthorn]

god, a bitch reads ONE section in a book about Arthurian legends and they decide to learn old english for fun, pfft loser

#its me i'm the bitch btw #breaking out the IPA chart as we SPEAK #those two linguistic papers are coming in handy after all #I am DEEP in the special interest hole

[lingthusiasm]

Bonus 67: Behind the scenes on making an aesthetic IPA chart - Interview with Lucy Maddox

The International Phonetic Alphabet chart is an iconic reference image which many linguists have pinned up somewhere to refer to. But its most familiar form is a not-especially-aesthetic technical diagram and we wondered, what if we made a more artistic version?  

In this episode, Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic with Lucy Maddox, Lingthusiasm's resident artist, about redesigning the IPA! We talk about how Lucy got interested in linguistics, how she got into art, how we started working with her, and the many design considerations that went into making a redesigned IPA chart: using New York City subway icons as inspiration for the circles, adding colours and a sans-serif font to differentiate it from the classic IPA chart (and why we definitely couldn't use capitals), and integrating the vowel chart and the two consonant charts all into one diagram.  

Announcements:

We’ve teamed up with linguist/artist Lucy Maddox to create a fun, minimalist version of the classic International Phonetic Alphabet chart, which you can see here (plus more info about how we put together the design). It looks really cool, and it’s also a practical reference tool that you can carry around with you in a convenient multi-purpose format: lens cloths!

We’re going to place ONE (1) massive order for aesthetic IPA chart lens cloths on October 6, 2022. If you want one, be a patron at the Lingthusiast tier or higher on October 5th, 2022, timezone: anywhere in the world. If you’re already a patron at that tier, then you’re set!

Lucy Maddox

Historical versions of the International Phonetic Alphabet

A thread from Gretchen on alternative versions of the IPA

Listen to the episode about our process to make an aesthetic IPA chart, get the lens cloth itself, and get access to our archive of many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon. Sign up by October 6, 2022 for the lens cloth special offer.

#linguistics #bonus #bonus episode #interview #bonus 67 #bonus episodes #special offer #patreon #international phonetic alphabet #art #Lucy Maddox #ipa chart #desiblr

[locallibrarylover]

conlang girls when theres the ipa 💗💞

#musings #im literally just listening to an interactive ipa chart this js making me so happy

[dreadlord-mr-son]

Everyone who gets real hot on hard-G GIF has the same weirdass argument about it being short for GRAPHICS. As if we don't change the pronunciation between acronyms and their component words all the time.

#i still say if anyone tries to argue about gif directly to me #i'm going to SOFTEN my G even further #from d͡ʑ to ʒ and y'all can deal with it #and yes i did go dig through a couple IPA charts to get those symbols

[thornshadowwolf]

"The IPA does not usually have separate letters for two sounds if no known language makes a distinction between them" well fuck you too then

#I'm not a linguist but I believe the sound this is about would be considered a dental tap #*pointing at dental tap section of IPA chart* this is where I'd put the symbol for <sound> IF I HAD ONE!!! #ThornShadow.said #posting very niche content tonight #it's a sound halfway between a t and a θ (unvoiced th) #discovered it many moons ago when trying to decide whether the name 'matthias' was pronounced 'mathias' or 'mattias' #and decided on halfway in between #theoretically there's a voiced one too btw that's just not what I'm talking about rn

[horizonandstar]

at first i based the sounds sun and moon could make off of noises i thought that were neat. now im basing them off of lyrebirds because of the whole mimic thing and

#I CAN USE ANY SOUND I WANT! #TERRIFYING! #THERES TOO MANY OPTIONS #how do i decide phonemes when the phonemes is every sound you can hear #the ipa chart is meant for humans anyway!!!! #i dont have a damn clue how to make a non-human ipa chart!!!! #im currently looking at the syrinx but its not helping me!!!!! #i might treat their language and vocal cords like human to make it easier

[difeisheng]

well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my actions (didn’t do my work earlier in the day so i have to study now when i want to write fic instead)

#fanfiction #fandom #writing #writer problems #goddammit i just wanna write the five gender crisis fic #i want him and klaus to talk!! but no im trying to memorize the english parts of the ipa chart instead #is this the real life #ashton originals