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Micamo wrote:(fascinating and incredibly enlightening as always, btw)

Maybe I'm just not cut out to be a conlanger (or maybe it's too late at night, lol).

Sankon wrote:Saanich has the official award for worst orthography.

Haha that's legend! And I thought Maltese was bad.

Brynţ eggox deŵøgg vħůbeqolð œ rķos!
I hope I haven't killed this thread again!

Artaxes wrote: Przepraszam, nie mówię po polsku. Mówisz po angielsku?

I believe that from the context, you're likely not familiar enough with the person to forgo the formal 'Pan/pani'.

Przepraszam, nie mówię po polsku. Czy Pan/Pani mówi po angielsku?

I tried something like this once. The problem is English has far too many vowels, and I don't like digraphs or too many accented characters. Is there another way to represent the large inventory of vowels in the English language?

Eldin Raigmore, please forgive my ignorance of advanced grammatical terminology, but I understood about 20% of everything you wrote before the green line. Why does 'While in prison, I wrote a letter to my friend' could work, though it still leaves a degree of ambiguity, have any ambiguity at all? It...

What distinctions does your system have that syntactically-bound systems can't do? How about verbs where the subject and object are in two different locations? I wrote a letter to a friend in prison most likely means that the friend is in prison, but how would you refer to yourself as the one in pr...

First of all I have to question why such syntactic freedom is even desirable. It's not no much the syntactic freedom I'm after, but the ability to express distinctions in meaning that English can't, or isn't as inclined to do. Secondly, you could have a procedural system that turns numbers into str...

Micamo wrote:Lemme get this straight: You want modifiers to be completely syntactically free from their heads, yet make the system have no ambiguity as to what dependent goes to which head?

Precisely. My main problem is how to conveniently implement such a system morphologically and phonetically.

You forgot /lol/ /rotf/ /lmao/ /omg/ and /wtf/.

I'm not an active conlanger, and this idea is rather vague and hazy even in my mind. I've been toying with the idea of 'mapping out' sentences graphically, similarly to how Ilaksh does, but simply to show two different but related morphological categories; modifier-dependency (whether a modifier ser...

Hum-fanóå mir weä wä kónsa mevasaí-cóåm-lóòná
ADV-obvious that good SUP Spain world-country-PL.GEN

Gvior unnä kqiis to eftaa xrÿ kmeppa uveři odyk xresl.
Now you understand why oral sex is forbidden on the planet Gvior.

Enripp veu ghezzin u fheg dwinga. Ynswod gnjel brioss fethte.
Goodbye sweet short-lived game. You were fun, at least to me.

:deu: Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken, Drei Ecken hat mein Hut. Und hätt' er nicht drei Ecken, Dann wär' er nicht mein Hut. :nor: Hatten min, det har tre hjørner tre hjørner har hatten min og om den ikke hadde tre hjørner skulle den ikke være min hatt. :eng: My hat, it has three corners, Three corners ...

As with abstract nouns, how would verbs, adjectives and adverbs be handled? And what about complex nouns, such as parts of human anatomy, such as the brain, the nervous system, the digestive system, etc? What about a house, a bicycle, a rollercoaster, a chessboard, a keyboard, a micro-processor, a M...

When I was an active conlanger working on a conlang which used a combination of characters not present in other keyboard layouts, I used Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator . I'm still quite impressed and baffled that this software exists, and a free program by Microsoft too! I don't know what its int...

Just to tell you, when you give a translation for a conlang, always give the name of the conlang with it. :eng: My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! :pol: Mam na imię Ozymandias, król królów. Spójrzcie na moje dzieła, wy potężni, i rozpaczajcie! :roc: 我的名字是...

Why is everyone criticising the idea just because historically, in all known human civilisation, speech was invented before writing? This is a conlang, based on an imaginary, theoretical species and civilisation, therefore anything is possible. What if they're deaf or mute, making verbal communicati...

Svernu li hegg kiag kjut ostera fua piars endul rhesk.
If the previous one is too long, skip it and post one yourself.

Sod all, as usual. I don't have an active conlang.