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- 09 May 2024 00:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'd be interested in this too, as I've reworked the conjunctions and particles of all of my languages lately, and I'm still kind of just messing around. As a fallback, Play has a morpheme -(v)e that turns any content word into a subordinating conjunction, with meaning like "having an X of [what...
- 08 May 2024 21:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 28095
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play nāpaa , to bump into someone; to make a broad contact with the body. The meaning of this word might expand later, as I need it for a specific culturebound concept, meaning to start an aggressive encounter with someone, without necessarily intending to. The etymology is from the MRCA word sequen...
- 08 May 2024 10:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 911
- Views: 216179
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Tuba wece nake. stone[ERG] woman[ACC] hit. The stone hit the woman. Well, this is interesting, I'll say that. But it seems that inanimate objects are agents by default while humans and other animates are patients. i've explored similar ideas, such as having noun classes that are higher on the anima...
- 07 May 2024 23:25
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Help detect language?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 516
Re: Help detect language?
it might just be AI art .... AI art will produce jumbled shapes like that and it's certainly possible that someone might use it as a basis for the design of a physical product.
edit: sorry, i misread the original post .... if this is an OLD blanket it's clearly not artificial intelligence.
edit: sorry, i misread the original post .... if this is an OLD blanket it's clearly not artificial intelligence.
- 07 May 2024 08:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 28095
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play vabačima , "composite; made of two things mixed together". New in the sense that I had it wrongly listed as *vabakima until now. This is made of vaba , "to mix, marry, mate; to link strongly together" and čima , whose etymology strictly speaking doesn't occur on its own but ...
- 06 May 2024 21:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Teka: New Romance conlang
- Replies: 74
- Views: 8946
Re: Teka: New Romance conlang
a big part of the reason i left around Nov 2020 (or was it 2021?) was that the software here doesn't allow me to post inline images the way I do on Discord. I could sign up for an image hosting service, but that's an extra step and only some of them allow inline posting. phpBB in general has limitat...
- 05 May 2024 17:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 28095
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play mumpuba , a sharp point at the end of an object; a pointed tip. In general, I dont seek sound symbolism, ... each language sounds like itself. A few words in Play that are short enough to feel like sound effects to me and that relate to sharp objects are pis , fu , and fis , none of which have ...
- 04 May 2024 16:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1537
Re: Play scratchpad
Trying to rescue an old idea for superlatives that originally belonged to a different language. This construction doesn't fit well in Play, but I really want to use it ... it may therefore be the less common of two possible ways of expressing superlatives, if I decide to keep it at all. The gimmick ...
- 02 May 2024 12:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 163784
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Do you mean me, or in general? I dislike marking allophones. Whenever possible I use a Romanization that copies the native language's orthography, except when that orthography is needlessly complex, as some of mine are. For example Play has two rows of gylphs for the /ʃ/ syllables, depending on how ...
- 02 May 2024 11:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1537
Re: Play scratchpad
kudos on the great work! Vanuap šatetavibe, vapa tis. I apologized for the mess, and I did something to you. . Maybe using both of them together, is from the days when a speaker had to say "vapa tis" is order to distinguish it from "tis" when it was a well-used (and possibly oft...
- 02 May 2024 10:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1537
Re: Play scratchpad
Play as of yet lacks the ability to distinguish between sentences like English "say no [to dirt and war]" vs "say no [to dirt] and [to war]". I made the post up above without realizing this. Its possible that, like English, Play speakers will use the first formula when the second...
- 01 May 2024 12:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 163784
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Dreamlandic: CONSONANTS: /b n s r/ /p m k l/ Those on the top row are more common. VOWELS: /a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū/ Diphthongs are /eu oi au ai/ and /iV uV/ where V is any different vowel. The latter type, which are rising diphthongs, may be parsed as sequences; see below. Syllable structure is (C)V wi...
- 28 Apr 2024 16:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1537
Re: Play scratchpad
Terms for humans. Morphemes in dark green are fusional rather than affixal, and thus typically don't appear in their underlying form. Most of these are derived from unetymological rebracketing, as particularly in initial position, a great many parent language forms all merged into the Play syllable ...
- 27 Apr 2024 11:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1537
Re: Play scratchpad
fivāpia "dirt" vapias "war" Possibly fivāpia be vapia fu "dirt and war". Thus the expression for "and; with; accompanying" is X be Y-fu . I don't see a way for me to do it without a suffix at the end, since otherwise any inflections on the phrase would only a...
- 25 Apr 2024 14:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 28095
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play pūmmu , to be good at something one is doing; to do easily. From pūm "stab, thrust" plus a dummy verb I haven't assigned a specific meaning to yet. From this I derive pūmmutaus , to be good at something; to be an expert. In other words, it's another example of Play having a word for s...
- 24 Apr 2024 16:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1084
Re: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
I really like this! Super creative. Thanks. I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read these posts. _____________ Today I've written down an idea that's been floating in my mind for a while ... for how to make Dreamlandic even worse. This idea is to make it mandatory for most verbs to indicate ...
- 23 Apr 2024 17:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1537
Re: Play scratchpad
Although I say all Play verbs have two arguments and thus are transitive, I admit there is a large class of verbs that I've been using essentially intransitively. This is not an intractable problem, as English has equivalent constructions like "this one gets you" where a generic you is mea...
- 23 Apr 2024 15:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 28095
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play petupipatuba , a timepiece such as an hourglass or sundial. I see no reason for a culture such as this to have a shorter word for such a thing, nor a more specific one. The Players mostly work by the cycles of the sun, and living at the edge of the tropics the day length doesn't vary much from ...
- 21 Apr 2024 12:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 370238
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
3) t > k > ć=č > p 4) ṭ > ḳ > ḱ=ǩ > ṗ (NB: acute = lateral obstruents, caron = postalveolar obstruents, dot = ejective/guttural) Im just curious what the difference is between the consonants with C and those with K. Are the C's affricates and the K's stops? Or are you using the K to stand for eject...
- 19 Apr 2024 05:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Anybody else working on conlangs with non-human phonologies?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1285
Re: Anybody else working on conlangs with non-human phonologies?
My speakers are humans, but my languages tend towards exotic phonologies. I've never really had a good explanation for this, but lately I've been saying that it's because humans in my world are just now evolving the anatomy necessary for speech, and therefore each group of people is evolving towards...