Conlang all year round - Augovernust in August

Hey, we're up to August!!

I'm going through 365 Conlang thingies beyond #Lexember (which is missing October...) one month a day up to August. Not sure which way I'll go in September.

August is Augovernust - Write down a clause of your user agreement, license, patent, copyright notice, lawsuit, Community Commons notice, membership rules, mailing list behavior guidelines each day of the month.
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Morphambruary 1
Febmanteau
Polysemarch
DisMayCourse
Juneme
Julectury
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Morphambruary 2
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Augovernust 2

Finding the Target

a story of Doomsday/Cloverleaf

Directly after Passing the Torch.

Sunny left Red Doomsday talking to Luke - Luke! He was a legend! - and wandered over to the group of kids - students, barely younger than she was - loitering by the picket fence.

Not Howard-, Leo- or Cabal-type, Cya had said, and Luke's eyes had drifted over to the tall blonde with the cow horns and something had looked like relief in his posture. So not the cow-blonde that looked a bit like Howard. She looked through the rest of them.

Cya had talked her through this part. "You do what you can with your Find power, and then you try to do more than you can. So.... start with Finding the guy you can live with or the guys you can help and live with. And keep adding on qualifiers until you're looking for a left-handed elf ranger who's good with his tongue and knows when to shut up."
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Regarding Tír na Cali and Technology

This month's Patreon theme is Tír na Cali, which got me thinking...

One of the things that always gets me about Tír na Cali is the way it started out slightly sci-fi and, more and more, ends up being modern-era in terms of the technology.

When I started working on Cali, smartphones had not yet come into existence. I thought I was making somewhat magical technology:

Collars with a chip that could be read by any police officer with a reader (probably a smartphone ap now) and tracked by anyone with the right information. Collars with technology small enough to carry all of a slave's "papers" in an easily-transferable format right on the collar. Electronic "keys" the size of a pen (micro-usb?) with a thumbprint reader and the ability to change a collar's permissions, update or download the data therein, and so on.

And those permissions: collars that "knew" where a slave was allowed to go and, in one case, a "smart home" with doors that would not unlock if the collar approaching it didn't have the right permissions.

Certainly, Cali still has a wide range of things that can’t be done by modern tech — changing someone into a cat-person hybrid, changing someone’s gender at the genetic level, complete rebuild of a limb, just for a few examples — but that is all covered under their magic, not under their tech.

Basically, in the time I’ve been playing with this setting, their tech has gone from being cutting-edge stuff that didn’t exist in the mainstream to being — if I hadn’t updated it as I went along — a little backwards. I mean, really, shouldn’t that collar be able to serve as a Bluetooth headset? What do you mean, you can’t text from your slave collar? No streaming videos?

...okay, now I’m wandering off on a whole new brainstorm. *wanders off, muttering about wi-fi hotspots*

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*pops back in* New to Tír na Cali? I updated the landing page with a few suggestions for starting places.

Edally Academy Chapter 40a: Findings

Enrie didn’t wait until Gianci and Taiki were gone before she started searching the shelves.  She’d been over many of these books before, but with Gianci’s new lullaby, they had a new direction to go in.

Saydrie was muttering to himself as he flipped through books.  After a minute, he asked, “Di

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http://www.edallyacademy.com/2016/08/23/chapter-40a-findings/