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A Bittic Researcher
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Designer and space dreamer.

Creator of a binary pictographic conlang known as Bittic.

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#ConlangNovember 26: (1/2) Technically, everything in Bittic is a composition that has been preserved. In-universe, Bittic is the only record of the Iridian civilization. I'm making myths and stories about them, and there's one in Basic Bittic. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Near a moon not too far away. On a day not too long ago. There was Book Lover on a ship. Something broke in that ship. The other crewmembers beat the machine to repair it. Instead, Book Lover read a manual to it. A great spirit came from the machine (lit. of the machine’s outwardness, the great spirit rose). They thanked Book Lover and offered a romantic relationship (lit. two hearts). Book Lover agreed. After many days, Book Lover wanted to go home. The great spirit tried to stop them, but gave a warning. “Do not touch matter. Why? You won’t be able to return to me.” Back at Book Lover’s home island, everything was different. The island was incomplete. People were making it. Thoughtlessly, they approached an airlock. It opened and the oxygen touched them. The time from before came to them and they became a baby (lit. new child).
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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#ConlangNovember 25: This is the best inappropriate phrase in Classic Bittic that I can come up with right now. Turns out, it's hard to make crude words in a pictographic language without it becoming NSFW. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
person dry mass "A person relating to "useless" mas." i.e. "idiot" Example: me
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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24: The Iridians (the people who used Bittic) being a space-faring culture, Bittic's nouns ended up representing things that would be transported in a cargo ship with some extra nouns thrown in for more complete coverage.
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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#ConlangNovember 21: Bittic only has only 12 nouns. Here's the glyph for "bone" combined with every noun. Not every combination is productive, but that might just be an imagination failure on my end. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
(1/2) Here are some examples of the word “bone” combined with Classic Bittic’s nouns. The red question mark (?) indicates a possible invalid combination. From left-to-right top-to-bottom. bone “bone” thing bone “bone” bulk bone “fertilizer” person bone “osteologist” machine bone “bone machine”? cold bone “bone coldness”? vehicle bone “bone-mobile” plant bone “bone plant”? (2/2) Here are some examples of the word “bone” combined with Classic Bittic’s nouns. The red question mark (?) indicates a possible invalid combination. From left-to-right top-to-bottom. animal bone “bone animal”? document bone “bone law”? “the idea of bones” gerund bone “boning” place bone “crypt” handheld bone “tiny bone”?
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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#ConlangNovember 20: Bittic, being a language of a spacefiaring culture, has some space-related idioms. Here are some of them. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Here are some idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! REL person gerund vent “Person who vents.” Someone who leaves a space habitat without permission from the habitat’s authorities. This is different from "person vent" which means “Someone who works on vents”. LOC place void be place hangar all place home “In the void, all hangars are home.” Don’t seek perfection when any solution will suffice. Here are some more idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! and thing conjunction thing different two “A conjunction and two different things.” Two things that happen to look related but are otherwise different. 49 (base 16) Farewell
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#ConlangNovember 17: Polish Notation was a huge inspiration for the grammar of Classic Bittic. All the colors here are to make reading easier for you. Normally, all the glyphs would be two colors. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
In Classic Bittic, operators precede their operands. Relative clauses work the same. REL person finish see 1sg “The person whom I saw.” Relative clause markers must always have the thing they are referring to right after them, even if it’s an empty “dummy” noun. do know 1sg REL person finish see 1sg “I know the person whom I saw.” Recursion is possible, but it gets confusing after a while... ...the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom...
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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#ConlangNovember 15& 16: Playing catch-up... Classic Bittic uses VSO word-order and is strictly head-initial in both nouns and verbs. I'm planning on using the locative particle as a sort of topic-marker but that's for later. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Classic Bittic forms questions by using the question glyph. [question glyph] Yes/no questions are formed by bracketing the statement with question glyphs. question do see 3sg 1sg question “Do they see me?” Open questions are formed by replacing the thing being asked about with the question glyph. do see 3sg thing question “What do they see?” **Note the use of “thing” as a dummy noun to “carry” the question glyph.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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#ConlangNovember 14: The closest word Bittic has to "stand" is "stable". I've combined it with all of Classic Bittic's verbs. They're not as minimalist and elegant as Kēlen, but I still like them. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
(1/2) Here are some examples of the word “stable” or “stand” combined with Classic Bittic’s verbs. (from left-to-right top-to-bottom) stable “stable” or “stand” be stable “is/am stable” do stable “is/am standing” go stable “going to stand” take stable “stand (for own benefit)” give stable “stand (for someone else’s benefit)” come stable “stand and repeat” insert stable “recklessly stand” (2/2) Here are some examples of the word “stable” or “stand” combined with Classic Bittic’s verbs. (from left-to-right top-to-bottom) sit stable “foolishly stand” able stable “able to be stable” hold stable “firmly stand” finish stable “finish standing” rise stable “begin standing” fall stable “accidentally stand”
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#ConlangNovember 13: Depending on the interpretation, Bittic has about 12 nouns and 13 verbs. Nearly everything else are content words that need to follow a noun or verb to have meaning. More complex ideas are expressed through compounding. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
be eat 3sg AND REL plant animal below dirt thing zero "They habitually eat plants for groundhogs (lit. below dirt animal) and nothing else. Note that "plant" "animal" and "thing" are the only true nouns in the sentence. They require compounding content words to develop more specific meanings.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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#ConlangNovember 12: Bittic has two verbs that can be used to convey that the action has happened sometime in the past. Otherwise, it uses prepositional time phrases. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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#ConlangNovember 11: Bittic uses Direct Alignment. The reader must rely only on word order to infer who is doing what to whom. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
do see 1sg 3sg "I see them." do see 3sg 1sg "They see me." Note the lack of change in the pronouns as they swap roles.
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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#ConlangNovember 10: Bittic is an isolating language. The form of the glyphs do not change depending on grammar. Classifiers, simple verbs, and particles are common. Classic Bittic is special in that its grammar resembles Polish Notation. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Classic Bittic is distinct for its heavily prefixing grammar. It classifies all words as operators or operands. When forming phrases, operators precede their operands, and heads precede their dependents. Some words can be operators or operands depending on the phrase. For example, the basic word order is verb-subject-object. The verb is an operator that takes two nouns as operands. Subjects are more salient than objects. make 3sg machine “They make a machine.” Note that the operator precedes the operands. Noun phrases follow the same pattern. Operators like nouns, case particles, and determiners are at the front with the operands following them. More “salient” operands preceding less salient ones. GEN animal person “The person’s animal.” GEN and animal plant person “The person’s plant and animal.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#ConlangNovember 8: Since Bittic does not have a phonology, here is are the rules that govern what is a valid glyph. The idea is that every glyph fills out the whole space it occupies, making boundaries between the glyphs clear. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Glyphs in Bittic are four-by-four grids made up of bits (borders are here to show the individual bits). Ones are represented by white pixels. Zeros by black pixels. Every glyph must have at least one “one” bit in every no or column In other words, rows or columns containing all “zeros” are not allowed. A comparison of glyphs, the first is valid and the other two aren't.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#ConlangNovember 7: I haven't decided if the Iridians knew about birds or not, but this might be their best approximation for "feather" using Classic Bittic's current lexicon. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A translation of Classic Bittic word meaning "feather". The word is comprised of three parts: a general "thing" classifier, a word for hair, and a word for the concept of flying.
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#ConlangNovember 6: Glyphs in Classic Bittic are 4x4 grids of binary digits which represents a thing or a concept. These evolved from larger and more literal pictograms that had simplified and shrunk for more information density. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A Classic Bittic sentence that translates to: "They habitually eat plants for groundhogs (lit. below dirt animal) and nothing else." The coloring is to demonstrate phrases or groups of words.
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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#ConlangNovember 5: Bittic,being an international pictographic language, does not have a phonology in the traditional sense. On the radio waves, the message is encoded in bits of high and low frequencies. The total number of bits in a message must be a semi-prime for decoding.
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Some quick catching-up for #ConlangNovember.
Day 1: Bittic is a binary radioglyphic language that was used by a space-fairing people called the Iridians. While the culture is gone, the people left their history in the 1s and 0s of Bittic. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A text crawl of Bittic binary text with the white squares representing 1s and black squares representing 0s.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Well, this has been frustrating. At least I'm making progress, I think.
An intermediate step of my first attempt at UV unwrapping in Blender. I'm highlighting a seam that seems to overlap with itself in the UV Editor. Hopefully, I can fix that.
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Some idioms in Classic Bittic reflecting the conculture's spaceflight tradition. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
Here are some idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! REL person gerund vent “Person who vents.” Someone who leaves a space habitat without permission from the habitat’s authorities. This is different from __ which means “Someone who works on vents”. LOC place void be place hangar all place home “In the void, all hangars are home.” Don’t seek perfection when any solution will suffice. Here are some more idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! and thing conjunction thing different two “A conjunction and two different things.” Two things that happen to look related but are otherwise different. 49(base-16) Farewell.
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I bought a new laptop and took a dive into Blender. I made a simple beginner's mesh of a spaceship, and I'm excited to develop my skills. #art #blender
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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(3/3) You can read more about this on reddit. Thanks for reading this! www.reddit.com/r/worldbuild... #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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(2/3) A translation of the above image along with a breakdown of the art. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
September 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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(1/3) An ad for the Commonwealth Medical Pilots Corp in Classic Bittic. I'm working on trying to create more radioglyphic art to compliment Bittic. Hopefully it turned out well. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
September 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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A translation that shows how Classic Bittic orders its phrases. A translation that would better fit English would be "They finished it without us knowing." #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
LOC far GEN knowledge 1sg 1sg finish 3sg something "Far from our knowledge, they finished it."
August 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A rat. #art
The image depicts a chubby brown rat viewed from different angles.
August 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM