New research paper directions <4


I am yet again refocusing my research projects- for my BIG project that has been stressing me out til no end I was talking with other heathens about it and it would be cool to focus on multilingualism in our practices, blots, and prayers! Cos when I was talking about it I have seen people talking about their use of Latin and Old Norse and Spanish and Italian and hell someone who is of Indigenous Mexican descent was talking about wanting to use Nahuatl! It is so cool :O

My other research project is THANKFULLY just a lit review :'] it is a follow up to my workshop from yesterday, and has to be related to linguistic typology! BUT IDK WHAT SPIN I WANNA DO WITH IT! My first thought was to do a typology of scripts! How grapholinguists classify scripts, and how they relate to their languages to form writing systems! BUT AFTER THE WORKSHOP MY PROF WAS TALKING ABOUT SMTH CALLED DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY AND HOLY SNAP AND DUCK SHIT THAT SOUNDS SO FUCKING COOL AND INTERESTING LET ME WRITE A PAPER ON IT SO I CAN LEARN ABOUT IT AND EMBRACE IT!!! Maybe I can do a hybrid between my two initial ideas OwO diachronic typology of unsophisticated grammatogenies (gods I hate how it is a split between "sophisticated" and "unsophisticated" =~= essential scripts that were formed by people who were illiterate, these are typically your writing seeds, think Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Chinese Oracle Seals, the pre-cursors to Olmec and Mesoamerican writing, etc.). So this would be looking at the baths these scripts tended to follow as they expanded in their usage and encountered languages outside of their native language (so like how Cuneiform, originally a morphography for Sumerian, developed into a syllabary for Hittite, Akkadian, and Babylonian, and even ended up as an alphabet for old Persian iirc).

SO MANY VV EXCITING THINGS BUT SO LIL TIME AND MENTAL RESOURCES! WHY MUST THE GODS CURSE ME SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


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