I'm finally joining the cool kids in 2011 and getting myself a scratchpad. Expect clonging and worldbuilding stuff to be posted here intermittently. Or not.
To start out:
Nouns in the Lessan language are collective-singulative, with a polysingularizing noun class system, listed and exemplified below:
Sacred concepts: deities, radioactive chemicals, most magic/psionics terminology
Persons: names of sapient species, personal names, names of ethnic groups, sophont body parts
Pack animals: birds, termites, fish, animal body parts
Wild animals: dragons, boars, shellfish, cuts of meat
Fruits: includes all native food plants, even if not fruit
Including by reference this post about number words in Classical Āirumāli, and soliciting feedback on everything that was, is, & will be in this thread.
Hālian wrote: ↑06 Feb 2021 07:50TODO: assign a meaning to every possible single-syllable Lessan word.
Progress report: 237/312!
Seeking feedback on word choice and suggestions, with the guidance that this language is for forest- and jungle-dwelling, predominantly premodern, psionic space elves on a terraform moon.
I feel like there was a post that mysterioulsy vanished. Maybe it was just a dream. As requested (in my dream), some feedback on the presentation and the language.
The noun class system looks cool, I would just like to see some examples in context. I have to admit that I don't know if I understand the table in your last post. Is this conlang oligosynthetic? Why do you organise the meaning in a phonological chart?
On the presentation: I don't like clicking links, I must admit. I also like a small explanatory text with conlang stuff and if possible some examples on the usage. Honestly, I am not so much a fan of scratchpads, but de gustibus non est disputandum.
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Creyeditor wrote: ↑20 Mar 2021 21:17I have to admit that I don't know if I understand the table in your last post. Is this conlang oligosynthetic? Why do you organise the meaning in a phonological chart?
Because I intend for every possible syllable to also be a word. Oligosynthesis is an interesting idea.
eldin raigmore wrote: ↑21 Mar 2021 01:27
Your Hoennese Realm link leads to commercial spam.
Oop, I forgot to change it when I had to change Hoenn's URL. It's been fixed now.
No, it isn't.
Guess who has two thumbs and is irredeemably stupid‽ I had updated the Website field of my profile but not my signature. Now both should point to the right place.
eldin raigmore wrote: ↑21 Mar 2021 01:27
Your Hoennese Realm link leads to commercial spam.
Oop, I forgot to change it when I had to change Hoenn's URL. It's been fixed now.
No, it isn't.
Guess who has two thumbs and is irredeemably stupid‽ I had updated the Website field of my profile but not my signature. Now both should point to the right place.
I see. I was relating to the link in your signature. Not that there was much to see yet on your site, but it is better than a web site unrelated to your conworld and selling baby dolls ;)
Made a new verb conjugation paradigm for Classical Âirumâli! \o/
Now one can make such words as alundiřecìĺiqâ “we could hypothetically have not, earlier today, helped to telekinetically move it [an inanimate object]”.
Hālian wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022 06:00Made a new verb conjugation paradigm for Classical Âirumâli! \o/
Now one can make such words as alundiřecìĺiqâ “we could hypothetically have not, earlier today, helped to telekinetically move it [an inanimate object]”.
I hate it. (TBH I always hated it, and want Classical Âirumâli verbs to be fusional instead of agglutinative, but am too stupid to figure out how to make it work.)
Hālian wrote: ↑23 May 2024 06:19 (TBH I always hated it, and want Classical Âirumâli verbs to be fusional instead of agglutinative, but am too stupid to figure out how to make it work.)
Not stupid! You just haven't worked out how to make it work yet.
Maybe its as simple as asking yourself "How do I understand this word, and what do I think is the difference between this word and that one?"
After all, its harder for me to to make something work, if I don't know what it is.