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- 02 Jun 2024 13:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Weird Dream Thread
- Replies: 318
- Views: 147219
Re: Weird Dream Thread
i kept a dream diary from about 2016-2020 and it's still online although i no longer link to it since it escaped into the wider internet and i had not intended that. i stopped in part because i realized that i liked sleep better than dreams, and sometimes the attention required to correctly write do...
- 01 Jun 2024 14:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1674
Re: Play scratchpad
Essentially just reminding myself that my intent is to have words for some emotions use the trivalent verb structure, so for example one would say Pāme ŋāppam , ve papii. If I hope on you successfully , you will kiss me. Because, like other Play verbs, emotions are transitive. That alone doesn't imp...
- 27 May 2024 21:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 29259
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play yivamnu , that which may become something; a "potential ____". Right now it is only used in one entry, fatusu yivamnu , which means an opinion, where fatusu means an opinion made law, as opposed to, for example, fatuŋu , a law perceived as impartial or indifferent to politics. Thus ag...
- 23 May 2024 11:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the most weirdly specific concept that your language has a single-morpheme word for?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 850
Re: What is the most weirdly specific concept that your language has a single-morpheme word for?
it's occurred to me i'd have more to post here if I hadn't wedded myself to keeping the Play lexicon "alive", in the sense that i favor compounds where both morphemes retain a clear meaning rather than becoming fossils. For example i just created tapinaša , which refers to the practice of ...
- 15 May 2024 20:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Your first conlang
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14469
Re: Your first conlang
When i was 8 years old i wrote a story where i defeated a villain named Estarolacamastorolifingestalormatyeñaseñores . It looks like I was trying to say "I'm the bed" at the beginning, then went into babbling, and then back to Spanish at the end. In that same story is a word Goodaleastonar...
- 15 May 2024 17:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the most weirdly specific concept that your language has a single-morpheme word for?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 850
Re: What is the most weirdly specific concept that your language has a single-morpheme word for?
Ive been making a list of oddly specific culturebound words, but few if any of them could be single morphemes unless they were eponyms, and I wouldnt count those as real words. A culturebound word that could nonetheless see good use in our world is Play see , referring to an ability that others cann...
- 14 May 2024 20:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 29259
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play nup , to prey while standing still; an animal trap. Almost certainly this root will appear mostly in compounds, but it retains its meaning in each one, and so is not a cranberry morpheme. I formed it by analogy from naup "prey, chase", and while I havent picked a date for the analogic...
- 13 May 2024 15:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1674
Re: Play scratchpad
Play's word order is relatively fixed, which is one of the pillars of its surprisingly compact efficiency. Tamā tataep tāfeatīs? Pi žaŋaa tis. What does the boy think of the girl? He thinks that she loves him. Here tāfea means "to think or say about", which I've glossed in English with &qu...
- 09 May 2024 00:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1801
- Views: 379698
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'd be interested in this too, as I've reworked the conjunctions and particles of all of my languages lately, and I'm still kind of just messing around. As a fallback, Play has a morpheme -(v)e that turns any content word into a subordinating conjunction, with meaning like "having an X of [what...
- 08 May 2024 21:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 29259
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play nāpaa , to bump into someone; to make a broad contact with the body. The meaning of this word might expand later, as I need it for a specific culturebound concept, meaning to start an aggressive encounter with someone, without necessarily intending to. The etymology is from the MRCA word sequen...
- 08 May 2024 10:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 911
- Views: 217445
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Tuba wece nake. stone[ERG] woman[ACC] hit. The stone hit the woman. Well, this is interesting, I'll say that. But it seems that inanimate objects are agents by default while humans and other animates are patients. i've explored similar ideas, such as having noun classes that are higher on the anima...
- 07 May 2024 23:25
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Help detect language?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 843
Re: Help detect language?
it might just be AI art .... AI art will produce jumbled shapes like that and it's certainly possible that someone might use it as a basis for the design of a physical product.
edit: sorry, i misread the original post .... if this is an OLD blanket it's clearly not artificial intelligence.
edit: sorry, i misread the original post .... if this is an OLD blanket it's clearly not artificial intelligence.
- 07 May 2024 08:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 29259
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play vabačima , "composite; made of two things mixed together". New in the sense that I had it wrongly listed as *vabakima until now. This is made of vaba , "to mix, marry, mate; to link strongly together" and čima , whose etymology strictly speaking doesn't occur on its own but ...
- 06 May 2024 21:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Teka: New Romance conlang
- Replies: 74
- Views: 9066
Re: Teka: New Romance conlang
a big part of the reason i left around Nov 2020 (or was it 2021?) was that the software here doesn't allow me to post inline images the way I do on Discord. I could sign up for an image hosting service, but that's an extra step and only some of them allow inline posting. phpBB in general has limitat...
- 05 May 2024 17:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 29259
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play mumpuba , a sharp point at the end of an object; a pointed tip. In general, I dont seek sound symbolism, ... each language sounds like itself. A few words in Play that are short enough to feel like sound effects to me and that relate to sharp objects are pis , fu , and fis , none of which have ...
- 04 May 2024 16:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1674
Re: Play scratchpad
Trying to rescue an old idea for superlatives that originally belonged to a different language. This construction doesn't fit well in Play, but I really want to use it ... it may therefore be the less common of two possible ways of expressing superlatives, if I decide to keep it at all. The gimmick ...
- 02 May 2024 12:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 609
- Views: 167205
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Do you mean me, or in general? I dislike marking allophones. Whenever possible I use a Romanization that copies the native language's orthography, except when that orthography is needlessly complex, as some of mine are. For example Play has two rows of gylphs for the /ʃ/ syllables, depending on how ...
- 02 May 2024 11:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1674
Re: Play scratchpad
kudos on the great work! Vanuap šatetavibe, vapa tis. I apologized for the mess, and I did something to you. . Maybe using both of them together, is from the days when a speaker had to say "vapa tis" is order to distinguish it from "tis" when it was a well-used (and possibly oft...
- 02 May 2024 10:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1674
Re: Play scratchpad
Play as of yet lacks the ability to distinguish between sentences like English "say no [to dirt and war]" vs "say no [to dirt] and [to war]". I made the post up above without realizing this. Its possible that, like English, Play speakers will use the first formula when the second...
- 01 May 2024 12:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 609
- Views: 167205
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Dreamlandic: CONSONANTS: /b n s r/ /p m k l/ Those on the top row are more common. VOWELS: /a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū/ Diphthongs are /eu oi au ai/ and /iV uV/ where V is any different vowel. The latter type, which are rising diphthongs, may be parsed as sequences; see below. Syllable structure is (C)V wi...