ADANEWs

[HoskhMatriarch]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

My most recent ADANEW is probably not that impressive. I just noticed once that in English and especially in German people will sometimes end their questions with "or", sometimes without changing the syntax or anything, like "You are going to the store, or...?" So, I thought, I'll make a question particle that's the same as the word for or, because that seems really reasonable somehow, and maybe I'll make it into an affix, but I really don't want to use some sort of ridiculous construction where people have to say things like »tesarnsolännḷnse tesarnsolännḷnżorse?« (that only works well when your verbs can't get quite as long IMO, and if you think that's bad, the ones with incorporated compounds or even just more roots and interfixes than the measly 2 roots and one interfix of that one are worse). As it turns out, the word "or" is the most common source of (at least sentence-final) question particles, so I wasn't being very original at all.

[DesEsseintes]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

I believe it's ANADEW.

A Natlang Already Does Even Worse

Or

A Natlang Already Does, Except Worse

Or similar.

[qwed117]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

I believe it's ANADEW.

A Natlang Already Does Even Worse

Or

A Natlang Already Does, Except Worse

Or similar.

A Natlang already does, except weirder.

Desssss

[DesEsseintes]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

I believe it's ANADEW.

A Natlang Already Does Even Worse

Or

A Natlang Already Does, Except Worse

Or similar.

A Natlang already does, except weirder.

Desssss

We're speaking English here, not Qwedspeak.

Christ

[Ahzoh]

This language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju%C7%80'hoan_dialect

[qwed117]

DISHASHTA SHALL NEVER BE ANA-wait, what? You're telling me Hebrew does that?
Well, nothing as weird as Dishashta.

Edit: It's so lovely, how in my phone it actually renders the size 5 text as size 5.

[Prinsessa]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

My most recent ADANEW is probably not that impressive. I just noticed once that in English and especially in German people will sometimes end their questions with "or", sometimes without changing the syntax or anything, like "You are going to the store, or...?" So, I thought, I'll make a question particle that's the same as the word for or, because that seems really reasonable somehow, and maybe I'll make it into an affix, but I really don't want to use some sort of ridiculous construction where people have to say things like »tesarnsolännḷnse tesarnsolännḷnżorse?« (that only works well when your verbs can't get quite as long IMO, and if you think that's bad, the ones with incorporated compounds or even just more roots and interfixes than the measly 2 roots and one interfix of that one are worse). As it turns out, the word "or" is the most common source of (at least sentence-final) question particles, so I wasn't being very original at all.

Scandinavian too. It still sounds like a Swedicism in English to me tho. It doesn't sound genuine to me. Is it really that common in English? I can only really remember hearing it a couple of years ago when a Swedish friend of mine was speaking in English over the phone and I thought "geez, you can't do that in English!", precisely because I never hear it in English, at least not in the same way...

[GrandPiano]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

My most recent ADANEW is probably not that impressive. I just noticed once that in English and especially in German people will sometimes end their questions with "or", sometimes without changing the syntax or anything, like "You are going to the store, or...?" So, I thought, I'll make a question particle that's the same as the word for or, because that seems really reasonable somehow, and maybe I'll make it into an affix, but I really don't want to use some sort of ridiculous construction where people have to say things like »tesarnsolännḷnse tesarnsolännḷnżorse?« (that only works well when your verbs can't get quite as long IMO, and if you think that's bad, the ones with incorporated compounds or even just more roots and interfixes than the measly 2 roots and one interfix of that one are worse). As it turns out, the word "or" is the most common source of (at least sentence-final) question particles, so I wasn't being very original at all.

Scandinavian too. It still sounds like a Swedicism in English to me tho. It doesn't sound genuine to me. Is it really that common in English? I can only really remember hearing it a couple of years ago when a Swedish friend of mine was speaking in English over the phone and I thought "geez, you can't do that in English!", precisely because I never hear it in English, at least not in the same way...

I'm a native English speaker, and I sometimes do it, especially in text.

[clawgrip]

I would do it in English, but I'm pretty sure I would phrase it as a question rather than a statement, i.e. "Are you going to the store, or...?"

[qwed117]

I would do it in English, but I'm pretty sure I would phrase it as a question rather than a statement, i.e. "Are you going to the store, or...?"

I would usually say "Are you going to the store, or what?". If I were to end it with just the or, then I'm describing a less satisfying outcome.

"Are you going to the store, or...[the brothel? the slums?]"

[clawgrip]

The implication I think is more like "Are you going to the store, or should I go instead?"

[Salmoneus]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

My most recent ADANEW is probably not that impressive. I just noticed once that in English and especially in German people will sometimes end their questions with "or", sometimes without changing the syntax or anything, like "You are going to the store, or...?" So, I thought, I'll make a question particle that's the same as the word for or, because that seems really reasonable somehow, and maybe I'll make it into an affix, but I really don't want to use some sort of ridiculous construction where people have to say things like »tesarnsolännḷnse tesarnsolännḷnżorse?« (that only works well when your verbs can't get quite as long IMO, and if you think that's bad, the ones with incorporated compounds or even just more roots and interfixes than the measly 2 roots and one interfix of that one are worse). As it turns out, the word "or" is the most common source of (at least sentence-final) question particles, so I wasn't being very original at all.

Scandinavian too. It still sounds like a Swedicism in English to me tho. It doesn't sound genuine to me. Is it really that common in English? I can only really remember hearing it a couple of years ago when a Swedish friend of mine was speaking in English over the phone and I thought "geez, you can't do that in English!", precisely because I never hear it in English, at least not in the same way...

Yes, it's very common. However, it's much less common than I gather it is in German. It's not a standard question-forming tag, like innit. And in English, it's usually still treated as a gap - it's not just been lexicalised as a question former, there's actually an impression that we're waiting for the end of the sentence. If I say "so are you going, or...?", my intonation will be that there's more to come, and if I say anything else it'll be after a pause. It will often be accompanied by marked body language - raised eyebrows, tilt of the head, sometime even the hand gesture for "and what do you do/say now?"

So it's much less a grammaticalised/lexicalised part of the language than I think it is in other German languages. But in practice, it's still something that happens frequently.

[clawgrip]

That's right, I think it really needs body language to show that I don't intend to finish the sentence.

[GrandPiano]

I would do it in English, but I'm pretty sure I would phrase it as a question rather than a statement, i.e. "Are you going to the store, or...?"

Same for me.

[Thrice Xandvii]

I use that construction when playing Magic: the Gathering a lot, a game in which it isn't immediately obvious when someone's turn is over, so I say: "My turn?" or maybe, "It's my turn, or...(are you going to do anything else)?"

[Prinsessa]

Post your best ADANEWs here.

My most recent ADANEW is probably not that impressive. I just noticed once that in English and especially in German people will sometimes end their questions with "or", sometimes without changing the syntax or anything, like "You are going to the store, or...?" So, I thought, I'll make a question particle that's the same as the word for or, because that seems really reasonable somehow, and maybe I'll make it into an affix, but I really don't want to use some sort of ridiculous construction where people have to say things like »tesarnsolännḷnse tesarnsolännḷnżorse?« (that only works well when your verbs can't get quite as long IMO, and if you think that's bad, the ones with incorporated compounds or even just more roots and interfixes than the measly 2 roots and one interfix of that one are worse). As it turns out, the word "or" is the most common source of (at least sentence-final) question particles, so I wasn't being very original at all.

Scandinavian too. It still sounds like a Swedicism in English to me tho. It doesn't sound genuine to me. Is it really that common in English? I can only really remember hearing it a couple of years ago when a Swedish friend of mine was speaking in English over the phone and I thought "geez, you can't do that in English!", precisely because I never hear it in English, at least not in the same way...

Yes, it's very common. However, it's much less common than I gather it is in German. It's not a standard question-forming tag, like innit. And in English, it's usually still treated as a gap - it's not just been lexicalised as a question former, there's actually an impression that we're waiting for the end of the sentence. If I say "so are you going, or...?", my intonation will be that there's more to come, and if I say anything else it'll be after a pause. It will often be accompanied by marked body language - raised eyebrows, tilt of the head, sometime even the hand gesture for "and what do you do/say now?"

So it's much less a grammaticalised/lexicalised part of the language than I think it is in other German languages. But in practice, it's still something that happens frequently.

Yeah, that's what I meant when I said "at least not in the same way".