#user's guide

There are three kinds of stems in Iñupiaq: verb stems, noun stems, and demonstrative stems. 

An Iñupiaq stem may be either basic or extended. An extended stem contains one or more postbases, and a basic stem does not contain postbases. The example niġiruq “she is eating” has a basic verb stem niġi- “to eat” and a verb ending ruq “she/he/it”.

niġiñiaŋitpalliqsuq “she probably will not eat”

verb stem niġi- “to eat”, postbase +ñiaq “will”, postbase -ŋit “not”, postbase +palliq “probably”, ending +suq “she/he/it”

An Iñupiaq noun in singular form acts as a stem to which postbases may be added.

Noun and verb stems may acquire nominalizing or verbalizing postbases. 

igluqpaniktuq “she acquired a big house”

Iñupiaq is a polysynthetic language. This means that an Iñupiaq word may be changed with the addition of derivational and inflectional affixes (postbases, verb endings, or enclitics) to create a new word. In the following example, nanuq “polar bear” is a word. It is a word because it represents a complete thought. That is, when the word nanuq is uttered, there is no question that it represents a polar bear. When the postbase -k- “to acquire” is added to the word nanuq, it changes the nominal word into a verb stem nannuk- “to kill a polar bear,” which now requires an inflectional ending. When the inflectional ending “tuq” is added, it becomes a new word, nannuktuq, a verb that translates into the sentence “she or he killed a polar bear.”

I just joined Pinterest because my collaborator on a fic-writing project is using it as a memory board for character/location ideas.

But it forced me to choose 5 ‘interests’ before it would let me actually access the group board for the fic.

got comics! wicdiv continues to punish, jem continues to be the best thing ever.

stopped by the pharmacy for the adhd meds we’ve been wrassling insurance over for weeks.

BAKERY. there is a really excellent patisserie across the street from the pharmacy and they had pear tarts. they never have pear tarts. do you know how much I love pear tarts? it is so much. so I had a pear tart and went home and I was so bizarrely exhausted.

I got up this morning and showered and poured some water and took my meds for the first time in a billion years and it’s amazing. I had forgotten how good it is to have a brain. I honestly want to cry a little? I have fed myself when I got hungry and I have been catching up on things I meant to read and I haven’t been constantly squirming or trying to do twelve things at once and is this what it’s like for other people? it is so great. it is so great being like this.

I hope it won’t always be a battle with insurance. this is going to make school so much easier. it’s going to make school start being what it should have been.

Just look at that smile.

a King of Cats looks like adventure. they look like they know things you don’t know, and they smile like they know a really good joke, and if you can look past their sharp edges long enough, they just might tell it to you. it’s gonna be REALLY FUN. they tease, they bite, they’re actually a little mean sometimes, but they’re not wrong.

a King of Cats will most likely wreck you but you know it’ll be worth it. and once they choose their person, they are fiercely loyal and protective. there’s probably some slytherin overlap there honestly, but they’re so much more fun than slytherins are usually depicted.