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I used someone else's conlang
to remind an old friend
to bring some wood
to the sacred fire

[:)]
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Someone woke up a :lat: muscle or two of mine,
and had me flex them.
[:D]

It felt great, :mrgreen:
But it also felt like I hadn't flexed them since the Middle Ages [:$]
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I've written drafts for the first two posts in the upcoming Sōkoan Revisited thread.

Hold your breath! 敬请期待!
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I wrote:You make a compelling case for the fountain pen, and I may look into it.
gach wrote:Get an affordable one and try for yourself.
Found and bought one. [:)] I don't know what iridium adds to the mix, but ooo, aah.

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Prepositions in HyPry now decline like nouns to indicate the perspective they refer to. This is useful for various spatial things (your left or my left) but the real purpose is to make tense-marking in a time-travel-enabled culture operable with minimal headache (your after or my after). The prepositions and tense markers themselves are shamelessly taken from an earlier version of Alál's axis marking, because (1) it's a system I'm quite fond of, and (2) it treats time as just another dimensional axis, which makes good sense given the speakers' culture.

So now tense works.
Spoiler:
[ʔel̥s nen tʰɜrʷo, nɜre ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ tʰ-r̥ʷo n-r̥e ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def 2-ref(-) 1-ref(+) ind
I was on fire at that time in your past, which is still in my future.

[ʔel̥s nen r̥e mʷu, imʷuj ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ r̥e mʷu j̊<mʷu>j̊ ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def ref(+) ev(-) 3<ev(-)> ind
At that point, I will have been on fire; to him, I already have been.

[ʔel̥s nen r̥ʷo meʔe ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ r̥ʷo meʔe ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def ref(-) ev(++) ind
I was going to be on fire (and I'm not yet) / I'm not on fire yet.

[ʔel̥s nen tʰɜrɜm tʰɜre, nɜrʷo ŋ͡meʔe ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ tʰ-r̥ɜm tʰ-r̥e n-r̥ʷo n-meʔe ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def 2-ref 2-ref(-) 1-ref(-) 1-ev(++) ind
From your perspective, I'm still on fire; from mine, I'm not yet.
The agreement leads to longer strings of tenses spanning multiple timelines having an amusing sing-song effect.
Perhaps "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" was just a translation error.
Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.

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kiwikami wrote:Prepositions in HyPry now decline like nouns to indicate the perspective they refer to. This is useful for various spatial things (your left or my left) but the real purpose is to make tense-marking in a time-travel-enabled culture operable with minimal headache (your after or my after). The prepositions and tense markers themselves are shamelessly taken from an earlier version of Alál's axis marking, because (1) it's a system I'm quite fond of, and (2) it treats time as just another dimensional axis, which makes good sense given the speakers' culture.

So now tense works.
Spoiler:
[ʔel̥s nen tʰɜrʷo, nɜre ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ tʰ-r̥ʷo n-r̥e ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def 2-ref(-) 1-ref(+) ind
I was on fire at that time in your past, which is still in my future.

[ʔel̥s nen r̥e mʷu, imʷuj ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ r̥e mʷu j̊<mʷu>j̊ ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def ref(+) ev(-) 3<ev(-)> ind
At that point, I will have been on fire; to him, I already have been.

[ʔel̥s nen r̥ʷo meʔe ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ r̥ʷo meʔe ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def ref(-) ev(++) ind
I was going to be on fire (and I'm not yet) / I'm not on fire yet.

[ʔel̥s nen tʰɜrɜm tʰɜre, nɜrʷo ŋ͡meʔe ɑ]
ʔ-el̥t n-e n-ɑ tʰ-r̥ɜm tʰ-r̥e n-r̥ʷo n-meʔe ɑ
DUR-BURN 1-1 1-def 2-ref 2-ref(-) 1-ref(-) 1-ev(++) ind
From your perspective, I'm still on fire; from mine, I'm not yet.
The agreement leads to longer strings of tenses spanning multiple timelines having an amusing sing-song effect.
Perhaps "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" was just a translation error.
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Lambuzhao wrote:I used someone else's conlang
to remind an old friend
to bring some wood
to the sacred fire

[:)]
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kiwikami wrote: The agreement leads to longer strings of tenses spanning multiple timelines having an amusing sing-song effect.
The harmony of the spheres.
[;)]
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elemtilas wrote:
Lambuzhao wrote:I used someone else's conlang
to remind an old friend
to bring some wood
to the sacred fire

[:)]
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Serendipitously stumbled across a neat sounding scale and also an instrument appropriate for the task and so worked on some Daine meditational music this week.
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Funny you should mention that.

I was youtubing/googling some stuff about Solresol.

It was supposed to be a IAL, right?

Well, not to be a bee in the bonnet, but was the scale that it was based upon a little too Eurocentric?


Conversely, I imagined a dialect of Solresol with quarter-tones, like in Arabian (and other) music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBpdDKP3beU

Would that our extraterrestrial neighbors were child-sized cherubim speaking a weird dialect of Esperanto.
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Lambuzhao wrote:Funny you should mention that.

I was youtubing/googling some stuff about Solresol.

It was supposed to be a IAL, right?

Well, not to be a bee in the bonnet, but was the scale that it was based upon a little too Eurocentric?
Perhaps not Eurocentric so much as diatonicentric? Certainly biased against all pentatonic & octotonic musical domains!

But you do indeed make a valid point. Most Western musics are based on a seven note scale; and Solresol seems also to be so based.

Conversely, I imagined a dialect of Solresol with quarter-tones, like in Arabian (and other) music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI
Ah, loved that movie! The music is terribly European in that scene, but I'm not complaining!

If you can forgive my terrible playing: http://www.frathwiki.com/images/d/d2/Contemplation.ogg.
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Cedillas for palatalizing. So clear. So digraph-avoiding. Aesthetically pleasing.
Also minor things like a tone sandhi rule, TA(M) forms, a classifier, solidifying on a number for genders, the former of attributive adjectives vs predicative ones and so forth. I was unusually productive today without investing much time.
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MrKrov wrote:Cedillas for palatalizing. So clear. So digraph-avoiding. Aesthetically pleasing.
Show us! [:)]

As for my own accomplishments: I now have three /i/s. [:D]
Edit: Except two of those /i/s turned out to be the same /i/. Regardless, as a result of this, is now a permissible, albeit marginal, diphthong in Sōkoan.
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This feels anticlimactic, but:
/ɲ c ɟ ç ʝ ʎ/
<ņ ţ ḑ ş z̧ ļ>

Beats Cj diagrams because I don't have to worry about ambiguity with clusters or awkward silent h's to prevent said ambiguity. Also doesn't compete visually with tone diacritics above vowels. <z̧ál> over <žál>.
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elemtilas wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI
Ah, loved that movie!
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lsd wrote:
elemtilas wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI
Ah, loved that movie!
The eternal search of SSpielberg: the lost childhood (down to fetus...)
Well, good thing about looking that far back is you know there ain't no further back to look!

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Interrogatives and equative constructions are a thing now. The latter uses a conjunction rather than a copula, and the former draws from the increasing stock of particles. The argument slot pattern for verbs is relatively solidified (patient, agent/instrumental, agent/causative) and I've been slowly expanding the lexicon and fitting new entries into that framework. Not sure if I'm happy with how it's turning out, but it's leading to some interesting divisions of semantic space.

Ex.
Spoiler:
kʰøj̊ - √ASK [(1) be presented with a problem, (2) rely on ARG1 to determine truth value [if clause or statement] or unspecified information [if NP], (3) pose a question]

[tˣøj nen os tɑ ne, tʰɑn æl j̊orɜj]
tʰ-kʰøj̊ n-e n-ɑ o t-o t-ɑ n-e tʰ-ɑ n-ɑ æl̥ j̊-or̥ɜ j̊-ɜ
conc-ASK 1-1 1-def arg2 2-2 2-def 1-1 conc-ind 1-def eq sap-TIME sap-indef
You just asked me whether I'm a Time Lord (and got your answer).

[kʷˣøj tʷʰo ʔos tɑ, ʔel̥s kʷɑs ʔɑ]
kʷ-kʰøj̊ tʷʰo o t-o t-ɑ ʔ-el̥t kʷ-ɑ t-ɑ ʔ-ɑ
mom-ASK iter arg2 2-2 2-def dur-BURN mom-ind 2-def dur-ind
You're asking around about whether you're on fire (and no one's answered you yet).

[kʰøj nen ʔɑ] (or [ne kʰøj nɑʔ])
kʰøj̊ n-e n-ɑ ʔ-ɑ
ASK 1-1 1-def dur-ind
I'm considering [a problem or question].
I'm thinking things over.


[kʰøj nen to ʔɑs æl j̊orɜj]
kʰøj̊ n-e n-ɑ t-o ʔ-ɑ t-ɑ æl̥ j̊-or̥ɜ j̊-ɜ
ASK 1-1 1-def 2-2 dur-ind 2-def eq sap-TIME sap-indef
I wonder whether you're a Time Lord.

[kʰøj i el̥s j̊ʷɑ tos ʔɑ]
kʰøj̊ i el̥t j̊ʷ-ɑ t-o t-ɑ ʔ-ɑ
ASK arg1 BURN stat-ind 2-2 2-def dur-ind
You being on fire is in question.
You may or may not be on fire.
HyPry V1 had a single click, /!/. It only appeared in the definite article, and at the time, I knew nothing about allophony (or non-pulmonic consonants). I've kept it in V3's phonology as a solemn :roll: reminder of what not to do with the 'lang this time around (a relic of the kitchen sink from whence it came), but until now I've been uncertain what to do with it. I've decided at last to toss it into a single particle - the honorific /!/, which appears after arguments (unlike every other particle) and has a very specific, though somewhat inexplicable, translation...

Ex.
Spoiler:
[j̊e j̊ʷuk͡pʰet͡ɬ kʰøj, irɑn ŋɜpʰr̥eɑj̊ʷ ... ! ŋæl?]
j̊-e j̊ʷu-k͡pʰet͡ɬ kʰøj j̊-r̥ɑn ŋɜ-pʰr̥eɑ j̊ʷu-ɑ ! ŋ-æl
sap-3 stat-SPEAK Q arg2 sap-def.pl abst-LANGUAGE stat-IND of_Rassilon abst-def
Do they speak the language... of Rassilon?

[ʔuæhɜ t͡sɜlʷøŋɜ, ! ʔuxɑmɜ tos o t͡sɜi]
ʔuæhɜ t͡sɜ-l̥ʷøŋɜ ! ʔuxɑmɜ t-o t-ɑ o t͡sɜ-i
BEC.MATTER cess-EAT of_Rassilon BEC.def.mass 2-2 2-def arg2 cess-imp
Stop eating the Bose–Einstein condensate of Rassilon.

[ʔel̥s ! ! ! nen ʔɑ]
ʔ-el̥t ! ! ! n-e n-ɑ ʔɑ
dur-BURN of_Rassilon of_Rassilon of_Rassilon 1-1 1-def dur-ind
Holy #@$% Rassilon's !#$%@ing $!@&#% I'm on fire!

Let's say it started as a euphemism, so that people weren't defiling Rassilon's name. You say /!/, but everyone knows you "really" mean /r̥æsɜlɑn/. And then, eventually, it becomes a stand-in for his name in everyday informal speech. In all cases. You can tell I'm taking this very seriously.
Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.

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I finally posted original stuff on my Tumblr sideblog. In this case it's the proto-language for two conlangs I'm working on for a novel. I'll put my side-blog in my signature if people want to take a look at the stuff that's up there.
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After almost one and a half years, I decided to start on a new conlang. Well, not technically - Ular will combine ideas from two older conlangs of mine, Proto-Ular (originally made for the Teles collab project) and Anto (nice grammar, but horrible wording). Plus I will write it with Han characters so I don't waste this time, but instead can practise the characters for my (I hope) continuing Chinese studies.
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