The CBB

Building the lexicon isnt a priority for me with Leaper, although I'll need to have some basic words. Here's an example of what the sound changes do to the bisyllabic parent language roots that in Play are mostly still bisyllabic: gʷ "child; baby; female property" ô "sword" lă &q...

Three of the Leaper mood markers can be matched to four of Play's. Play's tau tata tiu tetu correspond directly to Leaper's kʷa kʷa kʷi kʷo , assuming that the forms were created before the two languages separated (and they need to be, for reasons I wont explain now), and assuming that they all surv...

I'd like to evolve a verbal paradigm that blends fusional and agglutinative morphology for Leaper , the language of world diplomacy. Leaper separated from Play 2,300 years before the present time, each evolving rapidly along their own path with little influence in either direction despite their rema...

and today I added Play bappa , filling a lexical gap that has been open for years. It means to remove the remains of someone (or something). This avoids the need for a third noun in some sentences, such as English "I clean up after you". Indeed, used alone, Play bappa can vary in meaning f...

Piausape , a short message written on the back of one's hand, typically with an item in nature such as a small twig as the writing instrument. The writer presses gently so that the very outermost layer of skin is peeled, without injuring themselves. This is because most Play speakers do not have ac...

Yeah, I like that, though Im a bit surprised you used /gm/ twice instead of using both clusters from the pattern word. -------- Play pamāi "(just) the way (you) are; as it is". This is polarity-neutral like all content words in Play, and ideally emotion-neutral as well although that's impo...

I came up with this a month ago but posted it on Discord only and forgot about it until now. In Play, objects possessed by SAPs are still considered third-person arguments. This is unlike some related languages, including some of its descendants, where the equivalent of "your key" would ta...

Because all Play verbs MUST have two arguments (stated or unstated; usually agent/patient or identity/observer), another thing I struggle with is handling intransitive verbs like English "I'm sorry" / "I apologize". There is simply no way to translate this into Play; I will need ...

I cant really offer help, but I can say that working in the conlang first might be a good strategy, because you'll see possibilities that English rules out. Working with Play I struggled a lot with particles, but recently I've decided that the same Play morpheme -m overlaps in meaning with English &...

My world has male lactation and women who can suspend their menstrual periods. Neither trait is universal, but people with each ability enjoy a higher social status than those of their sex without it. Also, women in most societies are taller than men. Among some cultures, such as the Moonshines, wom...

A note on the naming of my languages .... all of my newer projects use English words as exonyms, and a longstanding tradition in this world was to unite the concepts of tribe and political party, making most (though not all) nations single-party ethnostates or nations where one tribe has most of the...

The womb ship idea is interesting. I remember seeing you mention them when i was here for Lexember but wasnt sure if it was based on the shape of the ship or on something else. I suppose the newest word in Play is nuše , a near point in the future, since Play has no grammatical future tense, and the...

Im honestly not sure. If it can, it's worth noting that the 1st person always occupies the first slot (by being omitted) and the 2nd person always occupies the second slot. Thus, the 1st person is higher on the animacy hierarchy than the 2nd person. This is attested in the wild, but uncommon. I thin...

OCCUPATIONS As with most other words, Dreamlandic uses phrases to denote various human occupations. These phrases seem overwrought compared to Play, where most occupation words are formed from a one or two-morpheme word plus the agentive suffix -(t)a . By contrast, in Dreamlandic, they are built ar...

I never understood the copyleft as being a political statement .... to me it's just about being different in one way but the same in another. Still just as much a pun, but not in the way you described it. Wiktionary just leaves the explanation open besides saying that it's a pun. ---- A woman named ...

Dreamlandic is a hatelang in the sense that I would hate to have to speak it, but not in the sense that I hate to work on it. (I have some languages that qualify as both, but to nobody's surprise, I never get anywhere with them.) Dreamlandic separated from its common ancestor with Play , called MRC...

I've partly rescued my time-counting system from a writeup in which I didnt put down most of the etymologies. For the time being, I dont have words for "today" or "yesterday" but I do have a word for "tomorrow" and the other two will be built the same way as this, so th...

Right, but the list that you get when you go to the download page is a list of the individual words that have pages, not a list of the definitions on those pages. Searching for "doughnut" gives me S: (n) ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor ring (a toroidal shape) "a ring of ships in...

Like many other Lava Bed languages, Play not only uses person marking on nouns, but these markers can be transitive, meaning that nouns are marked for the donor and the recipient. These in turn can couple to mood markers, so one can say šappem hiking boots Šappiŋup. I have my hiking boots. (Note tha...

I'd like to return to posting here, perhaps not as frequently as I was during 2017-19 when I had mobile-only Internet and not much else to do. I'm mostly on Discord nowadays, but it seems lately I fill up the conlangs channel with notes that are mostly for myself, so I thought I could put those here...