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Lecture: Toki Pona for Hackers by jan Toma
https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:updateringarWhen: 2026-05-09, 19:00 CEST
Where: Svartbäcksgatan 65, 75333 Uppsala
Stream: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8Toki Pona is a constructed language. According to its author, Amatullah Lang, “It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. There are now thousands of speakers and 137 essential words.” Attendees will get an introduction to Toki Pona focused on words relating to the hacker scene.
See you there!
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they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
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they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
#conlang #music #cover -
they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
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they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
#conlang #music #cover -
they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
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I will say that I was intrigued by the effort that was put into developing the Belter #ConLang even though, to my ears, it sometimes came off as a mish-mash of Afrikaaner/Jamaican affectation at times.
I definitely appreciate the commitment to its use here.
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toki ni li tan tenpo pini. taso kulupu pi toki pona li awen kama suli li awen sin.
lipu sin pi pona mute li kama lon: https://pona.la. mi pilin e ni: sina wile kama sona e toki pona la, ni o lipu nanpa wan.this is an old post, but the toki pona community keeps growing and making new things. since writing this post, a great new resource was created: https://pona.la. IMO this is the first page a toki pona learner should visit.
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#TokiPona now has a new website:
https://tokipona.net/(if you want to know why, please read the following statement. as someone who has followed this development, i ask that you take this all in with kindness and understanding. https://tokipona.net/wile-pona)
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I have just learned of this and IMustTryItOutForTheFunness!
Conlang Adventure 2026
https://mailchi.mp/b7ef80439d17/rl6241xjo9Nada #LangBelta....fo da anyiye xiya. 😉
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Hm, maybe I should give tokipona a try? I mean, I know the concept of it but that's pretty much all I know about it. Unlike lojban though, it seems actually learnable in a sane amount of time 😁 What's it like speaking in it I wonder
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Partially in light of the polysynthesis discussion, I've also decided to write up the test I apply when I encounter discussion of an "exotic" feature in a non-European language: to ask whether it is genuinely stranger than the verb _to rickroll_.
Link: https://kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2026/04/20-the-rickroll-test.html
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Should've prefaced this with
0. Everything is a verb. The 'nouns' are embedded into verbs, either in their 'core' or in their arguments. You can 'extract' them. This makes for some interesting mental gymnastics sometimes.
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Decided to write about what I like about lojban, for the sake of balance :D
1. 'Focusing' on a particular argument of a verb (and in L, everything is a verb); English does that as well to an extent, via the passive voice; but L has it on steroids. This is also used to turn verbs into nouns.
2. 'Partially applied' verbs; e.g. 'X gives Y to Z' you can pre-fill any of the X, Y and Z. That with the previous point makes a powerful mechanism to express complex relations tersely.
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3. Dialects. There are several (incompatible) varieties of lojban; some seem more adopted than others. This is probably not so bad and sort of expected in a conlang but, I wish there were disclaimers like "we're using version X.Y.Z in this text"; I mean, lojban has words for paragraph breaks ffs, yet no words for such metadata?
3.1. BTW yes, the verbalized paragraph breaks are just silly 😁
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2. Lack of consistency in the gismu places. I've been classifying the gismu places by semantics and they are basically all over the place. One example is in the screenshot. Just, why!? This might seem contrived or fixable but, there are more examples like this. For instance, they couldn't decide on the order SOURCE - DESTINATION vs DESTINATION - SOURCE. This makes it harder to learn the words and is just, well, pas comme il faut for a 'logical' language
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my gripes with lojban are, currently, the following:
1. Lack of noise robustness. This includes both the literal noise when speaking and the digital noise, for example typos. My favourite example: `so'i` means `many` while `so'u` means `few`. They are literally next to each other on the keyboard yet are the exact opposites. This is the result of a very tight morphology coupled with a certain knack for loading the alphabetic order with semantic meaning
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I've recently begun studying Greenlandic, and it has made me wonder just how useful "polysynthetic" actually is as a term: https://kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2026/04/16-greenlandic-and-polysynthesis.html.
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🤔 so I tried synθesizing ðe Vowel Cuboid^tm for a parallel universe where ðe 3rd formant makes as many distinctions as ðe first 2 😳
#cursed #linguistics #sounddesign #worldbuilding #conlang #surreal
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most overrated phoneme your cringe conlaŋ probably has because how cud you not θrow it in ðere 🙄
#conlang #cringe #linguistics #VoicelessTrilledAfftricateGang
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I realized that by varying the mapping from character classes (roughly, phoneme groups) to characters, I can generate the same word/name as different language speakers would spell it.
For example, in mock-Arabic a city could be called Frykult, whereas in mock-Spanish it would be called Fgicolt instead.
This has gameplay potential!
This feature comes for free with my #ProcGen approach outlined on https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/8/9/around-the-world-19-constructing-languages/
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Tice - Spiel mir das Lied von der Wahrheit | baji me gana de veritaa | https://youtu.be/L9SWsZRgSKw
#rap #lidepla #conlang #schnipsel #toripes -
Lidepla historisch: Eine lokale Kopie der Webseite lidepla.esy.es (ex-Lidepla.org = #Lideplandia) die 2016 von einem Drupal-CMS ausgeliefert wurde: https://drive.proton.me/urls/VVE94008AC#bTjySnSL3dWz | Ordner 06-03-Lidepla-org-(ex-DrupalCMS)
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Second close up with the map inside included :3
:flag_hyyh: :flag_hyyh: :flag_hyyh:
#b3d #Blender3D #3dart #Blender #digitalart #worldbuilding #conlanging #conlang #fiction #map
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Stayed up late working on my conlang's script again. It's a mixed writing system: some of the glyphs are unique and represent whole affixes and common words, while others are composed of consonants with diacritics that mark vowels.
The text in purple reads "wow! wao! now my text is shorter! amazing!"
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A little while ago I read an interesting blog post about #TokiPona idiolects. The author's thesis was that because of the limited vocabulary, individual toki pona-speaking communities - like the author's own household - will inevitably build up their own habitual ways of representing concepts that aren't shared with other speakers worldwide, and might not even be mutually intelligible. This is, as I understand it, a controversial take.
Does anyone else remember the article I'm thinking of? I don't think I saved it anywhere and would like to revisit it.
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Grasime & Nino el Dino – Ein Scherz | un joka | "... Ich mache viel außer das was ich soll ..." | Me mah mucho krome to kwo me treba | https://youtu.be/rrr0WaHpp3s
#minga #rap #Lidepla #conlang #schnipsel #toripes -
:flag_hyyh: :flag_hyyh: :flag_hyyh:
#b3d #Blender3D #3dart #Blender #digitalart #worldbuilding #conlanging #conlang
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I do not want to check how long I've been working on this scene. Waaayyy tooo long. xD But it's DONE now!
Honestly, the actual 3D work was done fairly fast. It was all the conlanging I needed to do for the various screens that took like half a year. Upside is that the vocabulary is now huge.
I rendered a bunch of different angles in both daylight and at night time with some fog for atmosphere. I'll post all of them in the coming days. Viewport will also be included because... why not. Some may like it.
:flag_hyyh: :flag_hyyh: :flag_hyyh:
#b3d #Blender3D #3dart #Blender #digitalart #worldbuilding #conlanging #conlang
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Native Tongue is a 1984 #feminist #sciencefiction novel by American writer Suzette Haden #Elgin, the first book in her series of the same name. | Janmalingwa es feminista-ney vigyanfiktia roman skribi-te bay Suzette Haden Elgin in yar shi-nin sto otshi-char. Un-ney kitaba fon elay seria hev sam nam. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Tongue_(Elgin_novel)
#Láadan #conlang #lidepla #toripes -
Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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Louna - Кто, если не мы? | wer sonst, wenn nicht wir? | hu, si bu nu? | https://youtu.be/2TJNM1OXrgY | https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://genius.com/Louna-who-if-not-us-lyrics
#WallofFolk #MurdeJenta #Metalcore #lidepla #conlang #toripes -
Seit einiger Zeit spiele ich ein bißchen mit #GhostBSD (VMWare) herum. #MATE Desktop-Umgebung | depos kelke taim me experimenti kun GhostBSD kompa-sistem. |
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostBSD
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New Instance: New 'About Me'. SO here ya go, folks.
Hello internet critters, I am Red. Short for redtail.works because the site came before the socials.
I am a Nonbinary Red Panda who lives in your computer and eats your cookies.
I prefer They/Them pronouns but if you call me a good girl/boy, I won't complain :steppy:
I am twenty-something years.
(not so) Interesting facts about me:
I am in college, working on an English degree.
I build websites sometimes. My home page is: https://redtail.works (pretty dope URL huh?)
I have lots of hobbies turned unfinished projects.
I am building a TTRPG (Like D&D but furry and not expensive)
I invented a language (You will see me speaking it from time to time)
I am tired of all these 'I' statements.
Why you should follow me:
Cute critter
Funny
Red
I follow back! (Unless you are an AI cuck)
Sometimes I go Wah!
Mental Health-y things you might care to know, I guess?
BAD ADHD
Down bad with the autism
Crippling mommy issues:steppy:
Bad at maths
Furry (the worst one on this list):HEYYY:
Pretty please retoot/blog/whatever this so more cool folks can interact with me (I am lonely and crave attention from strangers)
#furry #aboutme #newaccount #awoo #hello #conlang #rpg #webdev #nekoweb #html #tag -
If you write #poetry in a #ConLang, are you a #ConArtist? 🤔
(This post could have been a raptor meme.)
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Here's the opening sentence of #WhiteNights by #Dostoevsky, translated to Ru̇u̇ťalis as I promised!
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Ze ne Nahť ďeehlis, ne Nahť szvaalik vo, vėn vir hunlis, maaglis eenťlis, o Loker lu̇u̇flis.
DUMP ART.M.INDEF night-ABS delightful-ABS , ART.M.INDEF night-ABS such REL , when 1P young-ABS , possible only , VOC reader lovely .It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
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I wanted to begin working on a new translation project for the Ru̇u̇ťalis language, so after much deliberation, I chose to translate one of my favourite stories: White Nights by Fyodor #Dostoevsky.
I'll post excerpts regularly (check #lang_ruut and #ruutalis), and the whole thing when I'm done!
#ruutalis #WhiteNights #Literature #conlang #conlanging #conlangs
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Does anyone know any other active or budding #conlang communities out there, except on Discord?
I don't want to deepen my dependency on Discord even more.
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JP: 昨日は私の誕生日でしたが、誰からも祝ってもらえませんでした。
EN: Yesterday was my birthday, but no one celebrated it for me.
G3: wa imu lahilopalibe kahape inu eka igayumo ino yuhila wa iniba.
G2: wa imu lahilipalibe kahape inu eka igayumo ino yuhila wa.
Z4: kahape osa la^lahili:palibe inu iga:yumo lan yuhila ino eka.
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Perfect tense is the default tense to recall past events in Ru̇u̇ťalis, unlike English, where simple past is typically used for this purpose.
To put a phrase into perfect tense, the verb is replaced by hefa (to have) + the perfect participle infinitive form of the original verb.
Compare this present-tense sentence...
Di Maavie na Zup bru̇u̇fet.
ART.F.DEF maid-ERG ART.F.INDEF soup-ABS brew-3S
The maid cooks a soup.... to this perfect-tense sentence:
Di Maavie na Zup heft gebru̇u̇fa.
ART.F.DEF maid-ERG ART.F.INDEF have-3S PPART-brew-PPART
The maid cooked a soup.#lang_ruut #ruutalis #linguistics #conlang #conlanging #conlangs
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For those of you without much #worldbuilding attached to your #conlangs:
What time period is your dictionary tuned to, approximately?
Like, do you have words for 'computer' or 'internet'? Do you have chatting abbreviations like "BRB" or unique ways to text and write smileys? Do you have a complex feudal caste system reflected in your grammar? Magic? Creatures? Cars?
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i have decided to focus on this idea and develop it further. i have refined my phonetical inventory and discovered some concepts i should
learn more about.
so, now we only have [cv]*[vc]* words, cv part for meaning, vc - for grammar. this will be an agglutinative language with as long words as you want, but usually around 3 cv + 2-4 vc
now, about phonetics. now its more structured:
sounds using english alphabet:
stop - nasal - fricative - approximant
back: k - ng - kh - y
palatal: ch - ny - sh - l
front: t - n - s - r
labial: p - m - f - w
one-letter representation with an accessible latin-based alphabet:
stop - nasal - fricative - approximant
back: k - q - h - j
palatal: c - y - x - l
front: t - n - s - r
labial: p - m - f - w
my custom abugida:
stop - nasal - fricative - approximant
back: < - c - b - ɛ
palatal: ʌ - n - d - m
front: v - u - p - w
labial: > - ɔ - q - ɜ
vowels - opennes and roundness (a open unrounded, i close unrounded, o open rounded, u close rounded, e middle). in the conscript with diacritics - open on top, close on bottom, unrounded - line, rounded - v-shape, e not written
then ive descovered a concept of semantic primes and natural semantic metalanguage by anna wierzbicka and cliff goddart, and longman dictionary of contemporary english. these studies will help me to map necesary semantics to my cv and vc syllables, and will help me to build my dictionary, first defining short words that are close to semantic primes, then developing vocabulary explaining it with these short words, as that is done in the longman dictionary
semantic primes are universal for every language, so my conlang will be equally accessible to everyone. phonetic is not that hard, but rich enough for the language. it has four nasals tho (english ng as in playiNG, spanish n~ as in aN~o, english n as in Nasal, and english m as in Mouse). first three might be hard to distinguish for someone, but they can be said as consonant clusters (ng, n~k', nd, and mb) for easier distinction. other phonemes are pretty much easy for everyone (r can be any r that is not l, h or y, both english and spanish can suffice)
all semantic primes will be 1-2 cv long, and molecules - 2-3 cv long. some can be vc, additionally or exceptionally. more complex words - 3-4 (potentially longer) cv, but words longer than 3 cv are rarely used in daily conversations
next step for me is to read books of anna w and cliff g and learn more about their concept, and research the longman dictionary
discovery of these authors and concepts made my belief in the possibility of the language, and the determination to actually create it, stronger
ps btw there are conlangs based on this natural semantic metalanguage, like minimal english, minimal french, and others like 65 finnish
#apriory #conlanging #conlang #linguistics #languages #language #tokipona #esperanto -
Uiii, an aUI card game!
(aUI = the Language of Space, a philosophical visual language by Dr. John W. Weilgart) -
i wanna learn #lojban, what resources would you recommend to me?
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Does anyone else feel like the more you know about languages and linguistics, the less fun conlanging is?
I miss being 15 and creating some Slavic-inspired language with a dictionary full of Sino-derived roots with ten crazy cases and some poetic OSV-S-repeat word order. I translated the whole book of Genesis!
I had no idea about predicative expressions, non-finite or infinite phrases, participals, anything. Everything was a main clause or at most a secondary sentence with a simple conjunction.
Nowadays I can't do any of that anymore because I just know too much about linguistics, degree and all. Every little conlang aspect I create ends up stressing me because I know I'm misrepresenting a syntactic concept, I'm introducing some eurocentric nonsense or I just don't know how a certain concept would work in an edge case.
Even creating a copula for the most basic sentences in a new language is an exhausting task.
I used to do things like "He is a horse", where "is" was simply a verb that happened to have both its arguments in, say, nominative case. Nowadays I have to take into account that "a horse" isn't the argument to a transitive verb at all, but that it's a subject complenent and that "is" is in fact intransitive.
And then I need to research dry syntax for hours until I'm demotivated and scrap the whole language.
It's so tiring.
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Am I the only one feeling somewhat conflicted about #ConWorkshop?
(For those not in the know, I'm talking about the online conlang creation toolkit you can find on https://conworkshop.info/ 😊)
I've been using it extensively in the past for my projects, but eventually jumped ship to just my own local text files on my computer. Were I to start a new conlang project today, I would not use Conworkshop anymore.
I think the reason is that while it's an amazing toolkit to manage every aspect of a language in excruciating detail, it also doesn't make any of that detail optional. It's in part more of an engineering software than something supporting me in a creative journey. On the other hand, I love some of the features, like a plethora of word lists and a detailed and functional dictionary.
I find myself enthusiastic about only some parts of the conlanging creation process, not others. I also lack knowledge about some linguistic subdomains. When working on my own languages locally, I therefore handwave some aspects away.
Conworkshop doesn't let me though. It gives me warnings and to-do lists.
I don't want to work on phonotactics, historical linguistics, obscure syntactic constructions or in-depth morphology.
But really, is that an issue?
It feels somewhat like modern audiences of #fantasy fiction focusing overly on the logics, realism and logistics of "magic systems" rather than the characters, narrative and overly pleasantness. And yet, inconsistent and incompletely defined "magic systems" like Harry Potter's or LoTR are incredibly popular.
If conlanging is an art form, I am allowed to make illogical languages. Ones that work on vibes. Or ones that are inconsistent, unrealistic or unnatural. Or ones that I just haven't defined some linguistic aspects for.
And Conworkshop tries to shoehorn me into one single conlang creation style: the ultra-scientific, overexplained, academic one. When really, I maybe want to make the equivalent of Klingon, toki pona, Newspeak or Parsel.