Tommy Bones

I was originally going to put Timelapse (1996) or Zork II after Myst but then I realised they actually had a listing for The Forgotten!! :D

Timelapse and The Forgotten: It Begins taught me from a young age to never expect a sequel to games you love lol

my9games.com

There is no hello!

While there are questions we might use as a greeting in English, there is no designated greeting in SENĆOŦEN. This address is on W̱SÁNEĆ peoples’ land called ḰEȽSET (meaning ‘to drift’; Sidney, British Columbia, Canada) or SETI¸NES (Sidney, British Columbia, Canada). This language’s digital characters are based on a typewriter with extra marks, so it is known for having some uncommon characters compared to other First Nations languages. You also have local immersion schools and a texting app for SENĆOŦEN!

HÍ SW̱ KE for participating!

Interested in getting your own Just Say Hello postcard? Postcard request instructions here.

Sources:

SENĆOŦEN A Dictionary of the Saanich Language - Timothy Montler (2018)

BC Assembly of First Nations Interactive Map

Sidney Museum

Saanich dialect on Wikipedia

SENĆOŦEN Classified Word List - University of North Texas

When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of three Tides.

The birds sit silent in the Sixth Western Hall

From 1 January–31 December in 2026, politely send a mailing address to @pleaseholdpublications and we’ll send you a postcard with a way to say hello in a language indigenous to that area. Yes, for free! Yes, anywhere on Earth! And yes, it will have references for that language!

Postcards will be shared on this blog along with relevant language resources whenever possible. Feel free to join in and share your knowledge, too, through reblogs or tags.

Sometimes keeping a language in living memory can be as simple as just saying hello!

Some disclaimers:

By sending a mailing address, you are consenting to receiving mail at that address. Please do not submit anyone’s mailing address without their consent. The submitter is responsible for acquiring the consent to mail to the address they submit.

We will be using the mailing address offered to research indigenous languages as close to that area as possible. The address will be discarded after sending the postcard. We will not share it with anyone else. We will not share it on this blog. The region that the language is associated with will be recorded and publicly shared along with those language resources, but the mailing address will not be.

This project is run by hobbyists, not language experts. Words will be researched to the best of our ability, but should not be taken as expert information. Doing this as a hobby also takes time, possibly weeks before a reply can be mailed let alone successfully delivered. Please be patient.

a mage who fears her magic cannot master it.