The CBB

The reason I put <ea> for /E/ is because I think the schwa is the most commonly occurring sound in the English language, whether actually phonemic or not, so it has the shorter spelling. Certainly, I wouldn't suggest using <ea> (or any other digraph) for /@/. The point is that you could just use <e...

This is my best effort so far at reforming English spelling. It may not be pretty It's not too bad, IMO, at least not the first version there. [:P] I personally don't really like using digraphs for commonly occurring short vowel sounds, though, so I'd replace at least <ea> with just <e>. Of course,...

This is my best effort so far at reforming English spelling. It may not be pretty, but I think it's functional, with one letter or digraph representing one sound consistently. It is based on General American, the kind spoken in the Pacific Northwest if that matters. Consonants: /b/ b /d/ d /g/ g /p/...

I think the languages with the least aesthetically pleasing orthographies are Albanian and Vietnamese.

What's your take?

Modicone: Topic Merged.

I'm a fan of ablaut myself

I count stems in my lexicon (Lexique Pro wooo!), which, for me, means that I define every derivation of the roots into different parts of speech, because it is not always obvious what a derivation will do to a noun's meaning. For example, I have three entries for the root cij-. As a noun, it is ciju...

I'm not fond of tones, personally, in my conlangs. HyPry uses them, but they're rare enough that they're used to inflect the whole sentence, not just the words, which sounds much more fluid in my opinion. kiwikami, I like your sig, so I'm gonna steal it and change it to apply to me. Heh heh. Fine b...

What I think are too common are people who think tones are cool. The majority of human languages are tonal, though, so ... As far as I know most human languages have varying degrees of intonation. I see it as a continuum. On one end are languages with very little intonation that is not a direct res...

What I think are too common are people who think tones are cool.

Maybe I'm blandly European or just lazy, but I think logographic systems seem overly difficult to use, especially due to the amount of memorization needed to use them. Abjads are cool because they're probably not very hard to read if you know the language, and they're different. I just don't like th...

My idea for now is to just have a change in prosody for any kind of question. I don't know if I will make words for yes and no yet.

With the advent of global communication, can languages continue to fracture into dialects and then new languages? Or does globalization inhibit that? Just a thought I had.

OP: That could be as much a question of telicity as of prepositions. I haven't entirely figured out the system of prepositions in I Ichi yet, and it also takes place too early in human time to have a word for shoot. There may be a similar word for shooting arrows whenever I decide to make it.

Alias(es): C.J., Hrothgar, Hroþgarð (hmm where did I get those?), Jesus Location: Port Orchard, Washington, United States Date of birth: May 6, 1995 Gender: Male Occupation: Team Member at Pizza Hut Interests: Playing guitar, reading, conlanging, and certain 'extracurricular activites' Favorite mus...

kiwikami, I like your sig, so I'm gonna steal it and change it to apply to me.

UPDATE:
Syntactic rules:
SOV in independent clauses, SVO in relative clauses, and OSV in questions, but the dative can go anywhere. Adjectives follow nouns, but numbers come before. Nouns in the genitive case appear before the noun being referenced.

More later.

The premise for I Ichi is an agglutinative protolanguage spoken by ancient people, so human.

I personally hate accents when I attempt to create languages. If there's any other way I can express a phoneme, I will. Accents tend to be visually distracting and, in my opinion, ugly.

But what's your opinion?

Some I Ichi:
Huvata huvah, sa puthuta taur busil ahin.

Apparently this is Finnish.

Besides, as someone else said, it only matters if you plan to publish your conlang for profit. Which seems very unlikely, even though it would be cool to do that. But most publishers wouldn't pick the book up and most consumers wouldn't buy it if they did.