What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]

[ol bofosh]

hairless us

That certainly makes sense in context.

I get the feeling that ADJ PRONOUN can work in some ways, but it's not very productive nor standard.

Makes me wonder if there's any particular rules governing it.

[Ànradh]

Does contracting a Trojan while researching how pronouns become copulae count as an accomplishment? 'Cause I've just done that.

[Xing]

The ability of adjectives to modify pronouns in English is restricted, compared to their ability to modify regular nouns.

(1) It's much more common for regular nouns to be modified.
(2) Adjectives modifying pronouns typically occur in certain marked situations. In most cases, I'd think that adjective plus pronoun combinations have rather colloquial or affectionate flavour, or that they are employed as a conscious, literary device.

However, this need not be the case in all languages. One could think of a language were pronouns could be modified just like regular nouns, so that sentences like I bought the red it would perfectly grammatical.

[Creyeditor]

In German you can use indefinite pronouns instead of neuter third person pronouns, if they have to be modified.

Ich sah es.
1.SG.NOM see.IND.PST.1.SG 3.SG.N
I saw it.

Ich sah ein schwarzes Etwas.
ich sah ein schwarz-es etwas.
1.SG.NOM see.IND.PST.1.SG INDEF.SG.ACC black-INDEF.SG.ACC something
*I saw a black it.
?I saw a black something.

Es lächelte.
es lächel-te
3.SG.NOM smile-IND.PST.3.SG
It smiled.

Das schwarze Etwas lächelte.
das schwarz-e etwas lächel-te
DEF.N.SG black-DEF.SG.NOM something smile-IND.PST.3.SG
?The black something smiled.

I don't know if indefinite pronouns really do count as pronouns, certainly not as much as personal pronouns

[prettydragoon]

Does contracting a Trojan while researching how pronouns become copulae count as an accomplishment? 'Cause I've just done that.

See, that's what you did wrong. You should have deployed a TrojanTM when copulating.

...and that's what I accomplished today: I was helpful on the Internet. (for some definition of helpful)

[Ànradh]

See, that's what you did wrong. You should have deployed a TrojanTM when copulating.

...and that's what I accomplished today: I was helpful on the Internet. (for some definition of helpful)

Well, it had occurred to me that the virus was confused by the related etymologies and genuinely thought it had infected a porn site.

[Ossicone]

Almost finished making the Inyauk mausoleum website.
I have to say it's looking quite nice.

[kiwikami]

See, that's what you did wrong. You should have deployed a TrojanTM when copulating.

...and that's what I accomplished today: I was helpful on the Internet. (for some definition of helpful)

Well, it had occurred to me that the virus was confused by the related etymologies and genuinely thought it had infected a porn site.

That... that would be hilarious.

I tweaked ???'s phonology and added two vowels: /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ (the latter mostly because I felt bad for poor ⟨u⟩, which didn't have any use for an accent mark.) I now have a ten-vowel system, all contrasting. And it seems to be working. But it also means I now have to rearrange my verb and noun declensions and conjugations. Again. So we have such things as:

(from ny-zh-t-', to kneel)

Nyísht’. Nyízhohutísí. Nyízhízócht’. Nyusht'ús. Nyózhrit’!
I keel. I might have been wanting to kneel. I will stop kneeling. One must kneel. Kneel!

Also, I'm trying to figure out a name for this language, and I'm coming up with nothing. I am, however, coming up with a number of interesting personal names - don't have any conpeople to use them, but it's the thought that counts. Most are rather religious: Cereldíel, "may he be reigning forever."

[Lambuzhao]

(from ny-zh-t-', to kneel)

Nyísht’. Nyízhohutísí. Nyízhízócht’. Nyusht'ús. Nyózhrit’!
I keel. I might have been wanting to kneel. I will stop kneeling. One must kneel. Kneel!

How would you say -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyHTU8tg_0
?

Also (chorus) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqr5gQepf8
Bow down before the One you serve; you're gonna get what you deserve

[Chagen]

I made some additions to Pazmat today--mainly, giving it some more advanced questions:

Sensi o, disō?
happy be.3SGM to.be.right-1SG-Q
"He's happy, right?" (Lit. "He is happy, am I correct?")

Sensi o, misō?
happy be.3SGM to.be.wrong-1SG-Q
"Isn't he happy?/He's happy, isn't he?" (Lit. "He is happy, am I incorrect?")

Also, I made the word for "algebra" for no real reason. Took a while, actually, but I decided on Ufnatzans, literally "letter-math".

[Creyeditor]

I created some flags for my Conworld
I had the funny idea of basing them on the Nepal flag

Edit: The real deal is that all my languages have names for their nations now, apart from Pøplish, which has a name for its tribe, but it's to complicated for me to think of.

[Ossicone]

My Inyauk webpage is up for the world to see.
There's still some info I need to fill in places but I'd say it's 90% complete.

Edit: There is NO new info and there will be NO new info. It's just a compilation of old info.

Also, why do people seem to like Inyauk more than Uskra?
I think Uskra is soooo much better.

[Micamo]

Also, why do people seem to like Inyauk more than Uskra?
I think Uskra is soooo much better.

Inyauk's basically the Chuck Norris of conlangs. A worn-out internet meme that sticks around in the public consciousness from cultural inertia alone.

[MrKrov]

I feel good having resumed Pakbum's logography this week. And while it wasn't today specifically, I do like how I tweaked the voice system.

[silvercat]

My Inyauk webpage is up for the world to see.
There's still some info I need to fill in places but I'd say it's 90% complete.

Found a typo for you. http://ossicone.zxq.net/inyauk/people.html 'The Inyauk were also by first conpeople.' Should be 'my first'?


Wrote a dialogue to translate to illustrate how the pronouns work. Now I just have to create half the words in it and fix the family terms first.

[Ossicone]

Found a typo for you. http://ossicone.zxq.net/inyauk/people.html 'The Inyauk were also by first conpeople.' Should be 'my first'?

Fixed and thanks.

[Shrdlu]

The framework is done and I got a sence of direction where I want to take the lang~. This translates to that I know what parts I am missing. Yay!


lang~

[kiwikami]

??? is coming along nicely. When spoken, it manages to sound exactly like the mildly aesthetically pleasing gibberish that I mutter to myself in my spare time. Which is what it was supposed to sound like. Success! Also, this language has no lexical stress, and every spoken sentence sounds like it's written in iambs. This is intentional. I think. The abundant alliteration certainly is.

I started to play with multiple clauses, and tested out the system by translating a verse of Stonehenge.

Mhedzhdag, zen rozhen ráll,
Stonehenge, where the demons wait,
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Zen coces’ cács’ a zón córe cál.
Where the banshees scream and where the zombies live.
Where the banshees live and they do live well,
Mhedzhdag, zen ‘odamo ‘odam
Stonehenge, where a man is a man
Stonehenge, where a man is a man
Cí zen noler náshca shcyu Pání nam.
And where the children dance to the pipes of Pan.
And the children dance to the pipes of Pan.

The vowel system in this thing makes rhyming a serious pain. Ah, well. My use of zen in the 2nd and 4th lines, and zón in the second, is technically ungrammatical - but in an ear-pleasing sort of way. It's how they would sing it.

[Khemehekis]

My Inyauk webpage is up for the world to see.
There's still some info I need to fill in places but I'd say it's 90% complete.

Edit: There is NO new info and there will be NO new info. It's just a compilation of old info.

Also, why do people seem to like Inyauk more than Uskra?
I think Uskra is soooo much better.

Inyauk is a classic whose name is so popular on this board that searching for Inyauk via the search option on this site won't return results because it says the word "inyauk" is too common.

I missed what was wrong with Inyauk. I don't understand why you consider that language flawed.

Also, I suggest you try your hand at the "snowball" game thread over in Translations. It'll help Uskra develop its grammar really fast.

[Fanael]

Today I discovered that sound changes destroyed number marking on nouns and person agreement on verbs in one of my languages. What would a language do now? Mark number periphrastically and forbid pronoun dropping?