What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I used someone else's conlang
to remind an old friend
to bring some wood
to the sacred fire
to remind an old friend
to bring some wood
to the sacred fire
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Someone woke up a muscle or two of mine,
and had me flex them.
It felt great,
But it also felt like I hadn't flexed them since the Middle Ages
and had me flex them.
It felt great,
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!
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.
Found and bought one. I don't know what iridium adds to the mix, but ooo, aah.gach wrote:Get an affordable one and try for yourself.
(Just locked down the Majestic 4th without warning?)
☯ 道可道,非常道
☯ 名可名,非常名
☯ 名可名,非常名
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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.
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.
So now tense works.
Spoiler:
Perhaps "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" was just a translation error.
Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.
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That's sick!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.
The agreement leads to longer strings of tenses spanning multiple timelines having an amusing sing-song effect.Spoiler:
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
Re: What did you accomplish today?
The harmony of the spheres.kiwikami wrote: The agreement leads to longer strings of tenses spanning multiple timelines having an amusing sing-song effect.
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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
Re: What did you accomplish today?
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.
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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Perhaps not Eurocentric so much as diatonicentric? Certainly biased against all pentatonic & octotonic musical domains!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?
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.
Ah, loved that movie! The music is terribly European in that scene, but I'm not complaining!Conversely, I imagined a dialect of Solresol with quarter-tones, like in Arabian (and other) music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI
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.
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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Show us!MrKrov wrote:Cedillas for palatalizing. So clear. So digraph-avoiding. Aesthetically pleasing.
As for my own accomplishments: I now have three /i/s.
Edit: Except two of those /i/s turned out to be the same /i/. Regardless, as a result of this, oı 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>.
/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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The eternal search of SSpielberg: the lost childhood (down to fetus...)elemtilas wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI
Ah, loved that movie!
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Well, good thing about looking that far back is you know there ain't no further back to look!lsd wrote:The eternal search of SSpielberg: the lost childhood (down to fetus...)elemtilas wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI
Ah, loved that movie!
Unless you subscribe to Bu Ttong's theory about gestational senescence, which states that a person is at his oldest and crankiest just before and after birth. After that, it's all smooth sailing through on stormy seas and far away.
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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.
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 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.
Ex.
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Ex.
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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.
Wipe the glass. This is the usual way to start, even in the days, day and night, only a happy one.