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by Chagen
16 May 2017 22:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Double post, but I just came up with this and I love it: savurayyaśamāmi... Since (he) will want to visit (soon)... And if you need to make it even longer... savurayyaśamallītāmi.. Given that (he) (soon) will want to visit (us) so strongly... Actually I think I can stretch these participles even fur...
by Chagen
16 May 2017 19:53
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I've run into yet another problem with Pazmat ablaut. So, <a> and <e> normally have the grades a > ē > ey and e > ī > ay. However, arC and erC have completely different grades (arV and erV do not, they behave as normal): vat- "look at" > vētana "I am looking at" > veytubbī "...
by Chagen
16 May 2017 18:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044001

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Is there any correspondence between the inflectional complexity of a language, and whether it tends towards ambitransitive verbs or distinct transitive and intransitive ones? For instance, English usually has ambitransitives: "I turn on the lights", "the lights turned on", wherea...
by Chagen
12 May 2017 20:11
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

So . . . what's the issue with 30 verbal classes? Surely the more the merrier? :mrgreen: Ridiculous complexity in a language that is already super complex. And worse: complexity that adds no new grammatical or syntactic wrinkles, just more brain-burden. I'm sure if anyone can uncover ever new ever ...
by Chagen
12 May 2017 01:45
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

So . . . what's the issue with 30 verbal classes? Surely the more the merrier? :mrgreen: Ridiculous complexity in a language that is already super complex. And worse: complexity that adds no new grammatical or syntactic wrinkles, just more brain-burden. Are you reworking Polish or something? [xD] N...
by Chagen
09 May 2017 20:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I worked on Pazmat today.

I ended up somehow ballooning the verbal classes from 7 to 25.

...no wait, I forgot the syllabics. That means we get 30+ with ease.

This is gonna need some simplification.
by Chagen
28 Mar 2017 19:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044001

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

If a language distinguishes transitive verbs from intransitive morphologically (that is, one verb can't be used for both valences as in English), what is more likely for derivation: transitive derived from intransitive, or intransitive derived from transitive? I'm going to guess the latter, since th...
by Chagen
24 Mar 2017 00:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044001

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Is it plausible for a language to mandatorily mark number on demonstratives/determiners but not nouns themselves?
by Chagen
22 Mar 2017 04:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044001

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I think they're talking about marked vs unmarked phrases.
by Chagen
21 Mar 2017 17:44
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I'm starting to realize this Sunbyaku reboot isn't going well. Well I knew that all along. Actually to be honest I barely conlang anymore. Stupid me! I guess it's time to go back to Pazmat. Now if only I didn't forget damn near everything. What I find funny is that the basic grammar never leaves me,...
by Chagen
10 Mar 2017 23:41
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

...I've just realized that with a minor tweak to the new morphophonology rules I've made for Sunbyaku, I can derive an equivalent to Japanese's -ru verbs with it. Basically, internal hiatus verbs which end in -e or -o would suffix an epenthetic -r- or -y- between their themes: hame-a-ri > hamerari >...
by Chagen
10 Mar 2017 22:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Having not conlanged in a while, I feel like picking up Sunbyaku again. I think this time I will not obsess over the specifics of diachronic phonology as much--I know that seems like a cop-out, but dealing with it is sometimes incredibly annoying as you have to keep in mind both the ancient forms an...
by Chagen
27 Jan 2017 22:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Pazmat has a new imperative. buntarus! "eat!" (sg.) bunturre! "eat!" (pl.) -urre is a contraction of earlier -aruse : -aruse > -urse* > -urre *: In Pazmat, it's common for a syncopated vowel to "jump back" and "replace" a preceding /a/--this also often happens...
by Chagen
22 Jan 2017 22:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I am back after another disappearance out of nowhere. Discord is taking up all of my time! Also, I'm not going to school this semester, which should give me lots of more free time. I want to actually continue work on Pazmat now. Of utmost importance now: -Straightening out the nominal system: I want...
by Chagen
02 Jan 2017 23:19
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

...Think I just figured out a paradigmn for er-stems I actually LIKE. Wow. vagurū "the book" vagūrram "in the book" vagūrros "next to the book" vagayyū "the books" vagayyāram "in the books" vagayyāros "next to the books" The plural e.g loca...
by Chagen
02 Jan 2017 22:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
Replies: 2876
Views: 446984

Re: Yay or Nay?

Yeah. I just thinkg <ai> looks nice, but the others are...eh. <ei and oi> don't really sit with me-- meitubbī "I begin to speak" is just....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. It feels like the <ei> has no "presence" to me, compared to meytubbī , whatever the hell that means. It also gives Pazmat ...
by Chagen
02 Jan 2017 21:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Uuuuugh working on Schwebeablaut is gonna be a lot more complicated than I thought. This language has WAAAAAAAAAAY too many rules my god. Each rule has like five different permutations depending on surrounding factors. ...I also want to introduce gemination in the overlong forms of er-roots. So wers...
by Chagen
02 Jan 2017 21:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
Replies: 2876
Views: 446984

Re: Yay or Nay?

Which is a better romanization for Pazmat's dipthongs--using <w y> for the semivowel components or <u i> /aj ej oj au/ <ay ey oy aw> <ai ei oi au> Right now Pazmat uses a inexplicable mix of <ay ey oy> and <au>. The second way can't be confused for hiatus because hiatus does not exist in Pazmat at a...
by Chagen
02 Jan 2017 20:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Talking with my little sis has made me realize I don't really have a clue on how babytalk/childish mispronunciations are in Pazmat. Honestly, I doubt most conlangers have ever cared about that kind of thing, but I do now! Also I still hate the goddamn -er stem nouns why can't I ever make them look n...
by Chagen
01 Jan 2017 20:22
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631711

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I'll think about it. Speaking with my friends on RoCB and now Pazmat has some basic kinship terms: Father: parsā Dad: pōsasā/pōssā (haplology is common in CVC sequences of suffixes, though not roots, especially in childish speak/babytalk: pōssā is really more like "daddy", but even adults ...