my name is hayden! in toki pona i go by jan Etan, and for lojban la .xeidyn. i'm agender and my pronouns are they/them!
i'm currently an undergraduate mathematics student, and linguistics is just a big side hobby of mine. i find math and linguistics to be interesting in the same sort of ways!
i started getting into languages about three years ago when i taught myself german, and i found that having a more fundamental understanding of linguistics facilitated the natural language learning process. around the same time, i heard about toki pona, and i have been in and out of the community a couple of times since then. i recently started learning lojban as well, but my biggest hurdle with language learning is just having the motivation to obtain more vocabularly, hence why i resonated with toki pona the most.
my other interests come and go, but some of the more currently persistent ones are creative writing, digital art, and video games! i'm an avid enjoyer of cryptography and code-breaking as well, though i've done very little formally with that interest besides learning conlangs and neography.
my profile picture is an image i made myself, and it's supposed to be a wizard character in a story i'm writing. (i say writing, but i've mostly just done a lot of planning so far)
other fun facts for more commentary: i've had lots of pets over the years, a dog, three cats, two turtles, but currently i have two cats named Leo and Kate (and no they're not from Titanic). my favorite ice cream flavor is mint oreo, and my favorite color is purple! i'm also autistic and suspected ADHD as well.
i'm typically a lurker in all respects, but i really appreciate the vibe of this community and the conlang community in general, so i have no doubt that i'll have questions of my own at some point!