ceargaest

[tʃæɑ̯rˠɣæːst]

linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.

since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!


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the fucking SIL and their ilk documenting people's cultural heritage just so they can use it as a weapon to kill the rest of their culture in the name of Oily Josh

if you ever want to get really angry go look around on the Joshua Project website


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oh btw also! a lot of the software support for low-resource languages is developed by missionary orgs too! Software tools for field linguists for organizing language documentation, but also just essential parts of the open-source font support ecosystem; like the Open Font License, the Graphite rendering system (used e.g. in LibreOffice and Firefox); a bunch of Unicode fonts for less-supported scripts; and some of the most widely used fonts to support the range of symbols in the Latin alphabet needed by linguists, named after the Biblical Greek words for "grace" and "slave"