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We have a word for this kind of language; it is oligosynthetic . Typically they start out well, but they get unwieldy in a hurry. Sometimes people create an oligolang from the angle of wanting the meaning of every word to be easily derivable just by knowing the meaning of the root set. That pretty ...

What would your conpeople think of democracy? It is our opinion that treating everyone as equal is such a nonsense. We do agree that anyone should be able to fight to become a warrior and to study to become a wiseman, therefore acquiring the right to be accepted in a higher class, but we sincerely ...

[tick] What do your conpeople think about capital punishment? Most folks of the Mannish persuasion in the Eastlands of the World approach capital punishment with what can only be called a reserved sense of anticipation. Typically accompanied by sacks of half-rotten fruit with which to zing the conde...

Has anyone ever thought of trying to create basic semantic syllables like /pa/ or /so/ that have a core meaning and then can be combined to form more complex words? like if /pa/ meant 'sun' and /so/ meant 'go up/ascend' then /paso/ could mean sunrise I feel like that would be an interesting way to ...

I'd like to know how you feel about the NEW Resources Thread . So, if you have the time, please post and answer one or more of the following questions or give any additional comments you may have. Do you know about it? Do you use it? Would you use it? Do you give a shit? Do you think it should be o...

I found NCGGL terribly handy when coming to grips with Talarian. Was also pretty helpful in dispelling the myth of the "Latin verb system" we were taught in grammar school as applying to the English verbal system. It never sat well with me, but S. made it much clearer as to why. What myth...

[...] if you can't be bothered to read it as is, well, I guess don't read it! Unfortunately, this puts me in a horrible conundrum! I love reading about scripts for conlangs! [:P] Well, that's worse, as I don't want to conundrificate you in any way! Let me ask: what one or two things exactly would m...

IIRC Sihler's New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin ... :?: :!: [O.O] WOW! THANK YOU for sharing, Chagen. This book looks like a lot of fun!!!! :mrgreen: Now I definitely know what to ask Santa for Christmas :idea: Well, maybe if you've been very very good this year, perhaps Yeolfather will br...

I don't mean this to be rude, but I'm afraid that's how it will sound... I think you may want to take some time to learn the wiki markup language a bit better before presenting your page for mass consumption. I find it very difficult to navigate and read. If I were you, I'd spend some time browsing...

Do you have any charts, phonological or otherwise of the script? Or is it random examples with no actual script behind it? (which would be cool, just curious) Alrighty, I have added a chart of the usual "upright" or "square" form of Talarian syllabics (haven't made a clean versi...

Do you have any charts, phonological or otherwise of the script? Or is it random examples with no actual script behind it? (which would be cool, just curious) This might satisfy curiosity just a bit -- I changed the image to one with superimposed notations that give the names of the glyphs on the f...

Do you have any charts, phonological or otherwise of the script? Or is it random examples with no actual script behind it? (which would be cool, just curious) No indeed!, there is an actual writing system. I will have to sort out a nice chart, though. I also have to find my notes on those text samp...

Ha ha ha ha ha... [:'(]. Indeed, Serena. One of my very first :con:, Wuschnikaak , was composed entirely of five vowels [a e i o u] plus various diphthpongs and triphthongs of the same basic sounds. Later, some sort of glottal stop and a rhotic (/r/, /l/ ?) appeared. The script was, for most of the...

Not an easy exercise. :con: Mentolatian has a verb for being, siyan , but not a copula. Idiomatically, most of these sentences require verbs other than be anyway. Issues of alienable v. inalienable possession cloud matters at times; verb endings have tended to migrate to the pronoun before disappear...

So, I admit it. I'm a filler- I have created a conworld and put many languages and language families on it. This gives me little time to make full grammars for the languages and they will probably stay in highly-developed sketches. Thus, I've been thinking- instead of writing a grammar for each con...

I have placed a couple of examples of Talarian script at http://www.frathwiki.com/Talarian along with a short description of the language's three main writing system components.

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…. I've been working on this for only a little while now …. More irony? Or is it understatement this time? [:)] Now that I think on it, probably both. There are folks I know who've really been working on their secondary creations for a very long time (Sally Caves comes instantly to mind as someone ...

@elemtilas; You did see the [;)] :mrgreen: [;)] , didn't you? Oh, sure, sure! Had no idea what the concatenation meant, so promptly ignored! [;)] Or perhaps I misspelled one of the smilies? (I don't have an irony mark. But my last post was irony in the pure, strict, original sense; saying the oppos...

Do any of your Conpeople/cultures have any kind of martial arts? If so, please give a rough description of their character. In the World, there are many kinds of martial arts -- some more martial than others. Almost anything that can be used as a weapon probably has a martial art attached to it. (A...

In many languages the first part of this sentence is in an imperfective, progressive, or durative aspect; while the later part of the sentence is in a perfective, non-progressive, or "aoristic" aspect. How would your lang handle this sentence? In :con: Talarian , the first part places the...