Olisiko 'biologia' suomeksi _elämä(n)tiede_ tai _elo(n)tiede_?
Kieleni kallistuu _elontiede_-sanan suuntaan _elonkirjo_:n mallin mukaan, mutten ole myöskään äidinkielinen puhuja.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music
Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial.
I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.
Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @puujalkavihrea@mstdn.social.

Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Olisiko 'biologia' suomeksi _elämä(n)tiede_ tai _elo(n)tiede_?
Kieleni kallistuu _elontiede_-sanan suuntaan _elonkirjo_:n mallin mukaan, mutten ole myöskään äidinkielinen puhuja.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
I've recently begun studying Greenlandic, and it has made me wonder just how useful "polysynthetic" actually is as a term: https://kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2026/04/16-greenlandic-and-polysynthesis.html.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
I wrote up a blog post on various strategies for naming Git branches in light of the push to move away from `master`: https://kechpaja.com/blog/2026/04/15-naming-git-branches.html.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
It's genuinely amazing how inaccessible many parts of a modern city often are. Even parts that seem _less_ bad to the untrained eye.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Do you cook bark bread in a woof pan?
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Tämän päivän huijaussähköpostista: "noitacifiton".
Noita cifiton? Noita kihvitön?
Mikä on _kihvi_, ja miksi noidalla olisi sellainen?
(Ehkä conlangereita ei pitäisi päästää lukemaan huijaussähköposteja. Ei siksi, että tulisimme huijatuksi, vaan siksi, että teemme tällaista.)
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
#Trans #Linguistics question: how best can one utilize their linguistics training to train their voice to match their desired gender presentation?
And same question for #musicians #music people too I guess.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Accessibility should be built in to UI frameworks, so that developers get it automatically: https://kechpaja.com/blog/2026/04/07-accessibility-should-be-built-in.html
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
This Easter, if you find yourself using embryonic galliformic keys in an associative array, remember that there is no way to determine if an individual object will be equivalent to another until the shell has cracked, the chick has fully emerged, and the appropriate ffunction has been run to determine the object's slot in the underlying array. This can have significant implications for the ultimate size of the map.
Or, in other words: don't count your chickens before they hash.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Rejecting AI does not mean falling prey to "not invented here" syndrome: https://kechpaja.com/blog/2026/04/03-on-not-invented-here-syndrome-as-an-anti-ai-developer.html
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Okay, I just almost ended a Desktop Signal message with :wq. That's enough #Vim for the night.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
I think this year my April Fool's Day boundary is this: _jokes_ are funny, as long as they are clearly recognizable as jokes, but actively trying to _mislead_ me is not, even if you're planning to tell me later.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Musikaali on semmonen vihannes, joka on vähän kuin parsakaali, eikö niin?
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Just deleted the last of my GitHub repos, except for the fork of Mastodon that still has a pull request open. I can't delete the account entirely yet, but hopefully in the near future.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
The only take I'm interested in giving on _Project Hail Mary_ is that I'm increasingly uninterested in first contact stories where the aliens do most of the work of making communication happen.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Nobody is asking you to break the law. Nobody is implying that you even hypothetically _might_ break the law. But we _are_ trying to make it clear that you can always not break the law in a way that clearly communicates how stupid the law is and how little interest you have in complying with the spirit of the law, or with anything more than the bare minimum that the letter of the law requires.
People have been half-assing compliance for as long as compliance has been a thing. Do some research, talk to a lawyer, and then build only the half of the ass necessary to keep lawsuits off your back.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Over the last couple of weeks, I have started studying Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) with the unforgettable Per Långgard.
I'm interested in following accounts that post in Kalaallisut on fedi. I'm open to a wide range of topics and types of people, and will sympathize with anti-Trump and anti-colonial political takes.
I wouldn't _object_ to following (or at least checking out) accounts posting in other Inuit languages as well, so long as it is clear who is speaking what.
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .
Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial. I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username. Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see @ puujalkavihrea .