Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in Shifted Speaker's LiveJournal:

Sunday, July 6th, 2003
2:38 pm	Not much to report... ...but I found a convenient way to handle diacriticals in lj, and have incorporated them into previous posts. (Comment on this)
Friday, July 4th, 2003
10:56 am	Shifted Speech: Babble 2 Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hatred; hatred leads to suffering." - Master Yoda, Star Wars Episode 1: the Phantom Menace I'm not using that specific progression, but I like the idea of a 'genealogy' of qualities - both nouns and adjectives - reflected in the etymology of Shifted Speech. Naturally, some qualities will be 'neuter', of course; after all, 'salty' or 'purple' show no ethical bias. However, most emotional and ethical adjectives (and their corresponding nouns) will etymologically 'descend' from one of two words: MËR and NGOR. ME"R and NGOR (note the 'unclean consonant') could be translated as 'Love' and 'Fear', but in the broadest possible sense. MËR is 'turning outward'; it encompasses curiosity, love, loyaly, valor, compassion, understanding and all things which derive from embracing what is beyond oneself. NGOR is 'turning inward'; it encompasses fear, wrath, spite, cruelty and all things which derive from shunning what is beyond oneself. Incidentally, some say that French is the 'Language of Love', some would give Italian that distinction. When I began to create the vocabulary of the Shifted Speech, MËR was the first word in the language. I therefore contend that Shifted Speech is truly the Language of Love, for it is a matter of record that Love, in its most all-encompassing form, was the first word ever written or spoken in Shifted Speech, and is therefore the parent or step-parent of all that follows. That said, NGOR was the second word. Make of that what you may. (Comment on this)
10:25 am	Shifted Speech: Babble 1 "Babble" is essentially the "Designer's Notes" part of Shifted Speech. When the project is finished, I'll decide whether to scoot it all into an appendix or to append each bit of babble to whichever part of the syllabus it concerns. Today's Babble: tense. In English, tense is indicated by verbal conjugation: "Yesterday, I went to the post office." "Now, I am going to the pet store." "Tomorrow, I will go to the gym." In Shifted Speech, tense is indicated by the declension of the noun. Literally, one says: "My past-self of yesterday is going to the post office." "My present-self is going to the pet store." "My probable-future-self of tomorrow is going to the gym." This sounds horridly awkward in English, but in Shifted Speech, it is in fact more compact than most English grammar. It reflects the cosmological perspective of the original Shifted Speakers. Actions are immutable; walking is walking; loving is loving; dying is dying. People, places, things and even ideas change over time; therefore, it is the noun which alters in order to indicate tense. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003
12:01 pm	Shifted Speech: Phonetics 1.0 I have completed my first draft of the phonetics of Shifted Speech. ( Phonetics ) (Comment on this)