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It can be dry and tedious stuff, replete with obscure jargon like “digraph” and “trigraph.”

With messages in English, for example, the pairing that turns up most often may well represent “TH,” the most common digraph in ordinary English.

Four weeks ago, the Empress asked the Greater Loser Community to come up with new terms in which a digraph — a two-letter single-sound block — was replaced with another digraph.

And so, as a True Loser, he suggested a contest with digraphs — blends of two letters, either vowels or consonants, that make one simultaneous sound.

The scholars on the language commission, led by Erden Kazhybek, the head of the Institute of Linguistics in Almaty, then suggested using digraphs, or several letters to indicate a single sound, like “ch” in English.