::the discourse on linguistics::
     Fordsmender's Dictionary of Proto-Germanic This little baby was created using a table of sound shifts within the Germanic Family, Chamber's Etymological Dictionary, a copy of the American Heritage Dictionary, and various online wordlists and dictionaries. It's a thin volume: only about 1150 words (about half size of the Cepperjoleddicg dictionary), but for something that required such extensive research, I'm proud of it.

     Fordsmender's Guide to Indo-European Roots Within the Germanic Family I created this as a personal aid while working on Thiazic. You see, out of all the IE families, Germanic contains the fewest actual IE roots (most linguists agree that somewhere around 75% of Germanic is non-IE). Now that Thiazic's basic vocabulary has been created, I just think this little list is kinda cool.

     Fordsmender's Tocharian B Dictionary I created my Tocharian B dictionary (really, it's a worldlist) using good ol' Chamber's and internet resources. It's modest, but it's the only Tocharian dictionary - of either A or B - I know of. If anyone has any other notes on Tocharian B, please email me -- I'd like to add a grammar when I learn a little more of the language. Entries marked with "Unknow to Author" are words known to be Tocharian B but the defintions are unknown -- to me, at least. (The dictionary is Tocharian B - English, but I also have a slightly smaller Tocharian B - German version here).

     Wörterbuch der Indogermanischen Sprachen: Dritter Teil: Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit This is was one of the most ambitious language projects of its day. Unfortunately, as it was written in 1909 (it's now public domain) a lot of the PIE is now obsolete. The Proto-Germanic is still good, though. I'm translating this too, as I HTML it, and I plan to have the entire dictionary (all 573 pages worth) in HTML by 2004, and the English by 2005.
     The title page reads Ja, wir sind eines Herzes, und eines Blutes - this should creep me out, right? Well, at least it's a good scholarly work...

My Essays
     How Wales Came To Be a Christian Nation (Formerly entitled "The Christianization of Wales" -- the name was changed because it was confused as "The Christianization of Whales") This is a nifty little essay I wrote a year and a half ago. It's all about the mingling of two very different groups of European people.

     Linguistic Ability as a Process Separate From Vocal Animal Communication This paper relies heavily on information read in Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species. I'm just not a neuroscientist. I've gotta get Sarah C to sit down with me sometime and explain exactly how the brain works...

Linguistically-Themed Songs
     English Has a Subjunctive Case - lyrics by Paul Carter Actually, the song's incorrect. English has a subjunctive mood...