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- 07 Oct 2014 12:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Pancake (working title) - Collaborative conlang
- Replies: 90
- Views: 22063
Re: Proposing to create a conlang with multiple people
A guess a big problem is that everyone might enjoy making decisions on word order and semantics, but everybody hates sitting down and write the vocabulary. That might be a reason why collaborative conlangs often don't go very far.
- 03 Apr 2014 19:37
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Contechnology
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2121
Re: Contechnology
This religion is not the way you expect it to be. Usually God is used to keep order as it functions as a Deus ex machina to solve all problems, but this religion has no sentient God. God is the Law and the Law is God . This is the Law . Malethi’s original poem - [1] May the Energy flow by your mind...
- 31 Mar 2014 00:06
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Anaforuana and Abakwa: what are they?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2387
Re: Anaforuana and Abakwa: what are they?
Mh. Thank you for taking the time to actually respond. I will try looking that up and see if I can make out something more about these things!
- 24 Mar 2014 10:32
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: SapirWhorf
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2186
Re: SapirWhorf
I hate to be an advocate of the theory, but I've noticed that I'm starting to be able to hear the differences between tones and length now of vowels. Perhaps my studying of linguistics has been opening up neuropathways?I haven't noticed this before and its creating some exciting ideas for languages...
- 24 Mar 2014 10:30
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Anaforuana and Abakwa: what are they?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2387
Anaforuana and Abakwa: what are they?
After listening to a talk about the African writing heritage, I remained very impressed by a certain kind of writing the speaker had displayed, because it looked like some kind of nonlinear, maybe pictographic alphabet (?) that he called Abakwa. Little research on google shows (I think) that Abakwa ...
- 14 Jul 2013 16:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Eil - My Conlang
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1425
Eil - My Conlang
Here is the first public draft of my conlang, Eil. It's been now several years into development. There's more of it but I don't think it's all ready to be judged... Let me know what you think so far. More will come.
http://www.2shared.com/document/O_W9fXT ... atica.html
http://www.2shared.com/document/O_W9fXT ... atica.html
- 04 Jul 2013 16:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Creating a multipurpose alphabet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2449
Re: Creating a multipurpose alphabet
Sorry for digging up this old thread but I thought it was better than creating a new one altogether! In fact, I have a big update as I have finally put shapes in place and I wanted to get some feedback on the script! Here it is: Introduction : This script isn’t at all complete and doesn’t aim to be,...
- 14 Apr 2013 21:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Trust based "honorifics"
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6244
Re: Trust based "honorifics"
Yeah italian works kind of like that
- 14 Apr 2013 21:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Exaggerated Victorian English Conlang
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2096
Re: Exaggerated Victorian English Conlang
I think the idea is nice, but I'm not really getting how a conlang can be resembling english, but have a priori lexicon...
- 08 Apr 2013 23:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Trust based "honorifics"
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6244
Re: Trust based "honorifics"
Some natlangs have levels of formal~informal interaction (I'm thinking of Romance languages). Italian L1 speaker here. We do have different forms to speak to people, which correspond roughly to ancient english you / thou contraposition. We use "lei" form (more respectful) for strangers an...
- 03 Apr 2013 16:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Share your Conscripts
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10655
Re: Share your Conscripts
XXXVII that sounds like good advice! I might also have like people in my family write stuff for me so my hand is not the only one that influences it and I can kinda study what happens to the forms... You wanna participate? KOMON crap that does look a lot like it. I'm kinda confused on what to do now...
- 02 Apr 2013 23:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Share your Conscripts
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10655
Re: Share your Conscripts
This is a very immature and rudimentary version of the conscript for Eil. The rules it follows are extremely rigid and programmatic so I really need feedback on how natural (or unnatural) it looks, because before it will evolve into looking like something that could actually be used as a script a lo...
- 14 Jan 2013 22:46
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Corso d'Italiano - Italian Lessons
- Replies: 162
- Views: 52010
Re: Corso d'Italiano - Italian Lessons
It's funny because italian it's my L1 and it's still interesting to read this :P
- 28 Nov 2012 20:22
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: What's happening in your conworld/concountry right now?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 19656
Re: What's happening in your conworld/concountry right now?
Massive genocidal warfare. All the world's governments are collapsing... more or less simultaneously. Hundreds of power-hungry Magisters plot to conquer the world and reshape it in their image. The boundaries between the world and the realm of demons are weakening, allowing untold numbers of them t...
- 26 Nov 2012 20:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Why do you do it?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5102
Re: Why do you do it?
Thank you for all the great responses. It helped me relate and understand why I do what I do. If any of you care, I think I conlang because I want a way to get my ideas out there as they are, without further complexity added by language. In a way, I'm trying to create a language that gets language o...
- 23 Nov 2012 17:38
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: I can speak
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10880
Re: I can speak
Posso parlare (my mouth and tongue are free & I am permitted to speak)
So parlare (I know the language)
So parlare (I know the language)
- 23 Nov 2012 17:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Why do you do it?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5102
Why do you do it?
Hey boards, So I was looking at this very section of the boards just a moment ago, and I realized there are A TON of constructed languages out there. So it came into my mind, why do you conlang? I know this is probably a very cliche question to ask, and many of you might just answer you do that for ...
- 09 Nov 2012 19:16
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Meritocracies
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4963
Re: Meritocracies
I wish to quote the Empire in Rome, where for a long time the power was passed on from father to adoptive son; the emperors used to choose a "son" they deemed adequate to be an emperor, basically deciding who was going to be the next in power.
- 25 Oct 2012 21:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Creating a multipurpose alphabet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2449
Re: Creating a multipurpose alphabet
I knew about visible speech; however I have to admit I totally forgot about it while thinking about LoGA. Now, in retrospect, I think it can still work out. The symbols in LoGA are originally generated by a table whose rules are extremely easy to remember: a study (conducted in an extremely unscient...
- 24 Oct 2012 16:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Creating a multipurpose alphabet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2449
Re: Creating a multipurpose alphabet
Ooh, that's *extremely* interesting! Thank you for pointing that out. I didn't know about it. Striving for simplicity in the basics often makes the whole thing more complicated. I will keep that in mind. As a matter of fact, I'm trying to define a set of rules that could possibly lead to a little mo...