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by Sasquatch
19 Apr 2015 13:36
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Distinctions and mergers in your conlang
Replies: 13
Views: 5104

Re: Distinctions and mergers in your conlang

Since I prefer creating concepts and it is boring to invent words xx - watch/see (TV, performance) xx - observe (keep seeing while something changes or until it changes. Guard and biologist do it.) xx - meet for the first time xx - meet (reunion) I also dislike lexigenesis. I really like the subtle...
by Sasquatch
05 Apr 2015 04:11
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Manifest thought
Replies: 6
Views: 2514

Re: Manifest thought

I hate calling it a "language" because communication hasn't been purely lingual for thousands of years. Could you elaborate on this? "Language" has it's etymological roots in the Latin lingua meaning "tongue". This just doesn't seem suitable to me after thousands of ye...
by Sasquatch
05 Apr 2015 02:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Manifest thought
Replies: 6
Views: 2514

Re: Manifest thought

I hate calling it a "language" because communication hasn't been purely lingual for thousands of years. Could you elaborate on this? "Language" has it's etymological roots in the Latin lingua meaning "tongue". This just doesn't seem suitable to me after thousands of ye...
by Sasquatch
05 Apr 2015 01:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Manifest thought
Replies: 6
Views: 2514

Manifest thought

After more than a year of stalking and asking billions of questions I think I've finally gotten to the point I'm prepared to start my language thread. Much of the delay was actually due to trying to sort out how to post the phonology. Which meant figuring out which symbols I needed for the sounds I ...
by Sasquatch
04 Apr 2015 17:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: updated Siwa
Replies: 25
Views: 8644

Re: updated Siwa

I'm mostly annoyed by the seemingly epidemic proportion of people who simply never keep going long enough to get to that sweet spot where you have done enough work that starting over is not an option. But then I'm just projecting my own goals and reaping the frustration. Speaking strictly for mysel...
by Sasquatch
04 Apr 2015 17:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Distinctions and mergers in your conlang
Replies: 13
Views: 5104

Re: Distinctions and mergers in your conlang

Superclasses and subclasses of colors, fruits and animals. read (read the text, read the text of a book) vs. read (read a book, which contains text) Some cases lead to more distinctions that do not have the original meaning: come, go, leave (get out), leave (do not prevent something from staying in...
by Sasquatch
29 Mar 2015 07:48
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil
Replies: 27
Views: 7219

Re: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil

Actually, the raspberry makes me think of Calvin & Hobbes, where it frequently appears as "PPHHHBBBT" or something like that. And muchas gracias for the awesome compliments on Kankonian! Ah! Calvin & Hobbes. Great American literature there. For a while, my wife and I used raspberr...
by Sasquatch
29 Mar 2015 07:35
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil
Replies: 27
Views: 7219

Re: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil

Heh, that looks like my Kankonian grammar. It makes it absolutely unambiguous as to how each sound is pronounced. Do you have it posted somewhere? I'm all about unambiguous. Sure. http://khemehekis.angelfire.com/basic.htm Danke. And any language that has the raspberry in its phone inventory needs t...
by Sasquatch
29 Mar 2015 07:06
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil
Replies: 27
Views: 7219

Re: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil

Well, the phonology of what appears to be the most recent form of Ithkuil doesn't look too bad. Looking on Wikipedia, it looks like the 2004 version was more out there though. Heh, that looks like my Kankonian grammar. It makes it absolutely unambiguous as to how each sound is pronounced. Do you ha...
by Sasquatch
29 Mar 2015 03:58
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil
Replies: 27
Views: 7219

Re: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil

Personally, I'd love a relexed Ithkuil. Other than the absurd phonology and the even more absurd orthography I am a huge fan of Ithkuil. Noun cases are your friend. Embrace the case! Well, the phonology of what appears to be the most recent form of Ithkuil doesn't look too bad. Looking on Wikipedia...
by Sasquatch
28 Mar 2015 23:42
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil
Replies: 27
Views: 7219

Re: I swear my conlang is becoming a relex of Ithkuil

Personally, I'd love a relexed Ithkuil. Other than the absurd phonology and the even more absurd orthography I am a huge fan of Ithkuil. Noun cases are your friend. Embrace the case!
by Sasquatch
28 Mar 2015 22:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.
Replies: 69
Views: 10893

Re: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.

I recline corrected! I guess I was thinking more along the lines of formal experiment -- you know, scientific method and all that. The above kind of experimentation is more along the lines of "wonder what happens when you throw a bottle of lighter fluid into a fire . . . oh $h|+! That's what h...
by Sasquatch
28 Mar 2015 17:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.
Replies: 69
Views: 10893

Re: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.

I wouldn't even know where to begin in the matter of conlangs-as-research-tools! I bet you've done it without even realizing it. If you've ever said "what would happen if..." and then proceeded to try it you have performed an experiment... you have done research. The only real difference ...
by Sasquatch
28 Mar 2015 14:59
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.
Replies: 69
Views: 10893

Re: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.

[Zamenhof] was certainly a learned man, and knew a lot of languages. That helps more than being a linguist, I think, when it comes to conlanging! I agree with this. I find that my actual knowledge of languages I can speak aids me much more when conlanging than knowledge of linguistics. The latter o...
by Sasquatch
27 Mar 2015 17:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.
Replies: 69
Views: 10893

Re: Conlang/Artlang/Toylang, etc.

I say artlang definitely has to have an aesthetic aspect to it. If it's only done exclusively for giggles it's a toylang . Art indicates an aesthetic motive. I do have the very primordial beginnings of a jokelang . It's the anti-auxlang thread I started here. Of course, I'm only half joking with it....
by Sasquatch
27 Mar 2015 15:47
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters
Replies: 39
Views: 128486

Re: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters

I mostly use MATE which has inherited its keyboard settings tool from GNOME. Its tool has a rich range of layout related shortcut selections including the very useful ones of selecting the position of the compose key and setting a switching key to another layout. At work I have XFCE running on Ubun...
by Sasquatch
27 Mar 2015 02:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Word generators
Replies: 22
Views: 4568

Re: Word generators

The issue I have with Awkwords is that it won't properly filter illegal strings. If I add "^lll" after the pattern it will only filter "lll", not any word that *contains* "lll". If you post your current syntax for Awkwords and a basic phonology, we might be able to hel...
by Sasquatch
27 Mar 2015 02:37
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters
Replies: 39
Views: 128486

Re: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters

...I'm not aware that anyone would have done a user friendly keyboard editor for Linux.... Thanks for the info and the links. This has become my project for this weekend. I'll be sure to update with any progress I make. One thing I noticed from a quick glance at the first link you posted is that it...
by Sasquatch
26 Mar 2015 00:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Word generators
Replies: 22
Views: 4568

Re: Word generators

but the trick I use for diphthongs and clusters is to add a new category for them (say, D for diphthong), use an unused symbol for each, and then use the rewrite rules to turn them back into diphthongs/clusters/whatever I really want. So, for example, I might have: Categories: D=ăĕ etc. K=ṗḳ Rewrit...
by Sasquatch
24 Mar 2015 23:43
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters
Replies: 39
Views: 128486

Re: How to Add/Insert/Type Special Characters

I'm searching for how to do this with Linux. It looks, in principle, like I should be able to tweak a file and get each key to type the desired IPA symbol when I hold the correct button. So my "windows" button could be the IPA button. But I'm having difficulty finding the exact information...