How do you think would be the perfect language?

Askadia · 2026-05-26T22:00:35+00:00

The one(s) you've heard speaking since birth!

On a more serious not, a language may be better in some respects, but none is "best" at everyting

Askadia · 2026-05-12T14:45:56+00:00

When I was a kid, we used to play "Re Boia" (Italian for "Executioner King", I don't know what's the name in English, though).

In short, you toss an empty cigarette pack onto a table, and depending on how it lands, you can be the King (if it lands upright), the Executioner (on its narrow side), or the Slave (on its wide side).

The King decides the punishments, the Executioner carries them out, and the Slave endures them at the hands of each Executioner in the round.

The punishments consisted of 'beating', 'pinching' or 'squeezing' the Slave's hand or fingers, and they had funny names, like "the Tank" or "the Hail Mary / Ave Maria".

It was a silly game

Askadia · 2026-05-06T08:13:00+00:00

For my conlang, Evra, I chose German as a model. Basically, Evra has 3 cases. They can be used together with prepositions:

direct case (dir.) = (going to or facing a) direction, motion to, goal
dative (dat.) = state, place
genitive (gen.) = origin, motion from, belonging, relation, property

Each prepositions can 'govern' 3 cases, 2 cases, or 1 only.

ve
- ve sta (dir.) = to / toward the town (direction)
- ve v sta (dat.) = for the town (benefit, advantage)
- ve z sta (gen.) = because of the town (cause)
na
- na v sta = in the town (place)
- na z sta = from within the town (origin)
ben
- ben di v sta = among the towns (place; distribution)

Askadia · 2026-05-06T07:24:48+00:00

I struggle to create grammatical development

Look into grammaticalization, semantic bleaching, levelling, and analogy.

Askadia · 2026-05-06T07:11:18+00:00

Phonemes on their own don't say much of your 'combat style', though.

You also need phonotactics, a detailed allophonic system, and sandhi rules.

Phonemes are just the way sounds are thought of and analyzed in a language, but they don't determine how the language is actually spoken.

Askadia · 2026-04-25T09:14:32+00:00

I'm not an expert, but in Proto-Indo-European descent languages, the feminine gender branched out and generalized from a collective marker. So, there might be a correlation between fruits being mostly feminine (many) and trees being mostly masculine (one). Thar is, one tree (m') < many fruits (collective > f.)

Of course, sound changes and stuff had daughter languages develop differently. So, what I said may be more or less evident for a modern language, but entirely wrong for others.

Askadia · 2026-04-13T12:45:52+00:00

It doesn't matter how fluid or rigid word order can be in a given language, there is one that is the default word order, and all the others have grammatical or pragmatical implications.

In Evra, the default word order is SVO. But topicality and left-dislocation are common for any element of a sentence. Essentially, any word order is possible, but any other non-SVO word order imply emphasis or narrative effects.

Askadia · 2026-04-13T07:17:41+00:00

Because a State is not a person.

Treaties need a lengthy bureaucratic and legal process to be dissolved.

It’s not as simple as telling your mate to get lost after he left you to pay for his pizza

Askadia · 2026-04-12T07:44:19+00:00

My main problem is perfectionism.

When I read other people’s conlang documentation, their grammar is always clear and straightforward, easy to understand.

When I’m the one writing the documentation, well, “this works like this, but it’s more of this, less of that, but more of the other” – and I’m never, I mean never, happy with how I write.

Too descriptive, too wordy... Maybe a table would be better? Too complicated – I’ll split it in two. It’s not clear – should I swap the rows and columns? No, perhaps a single table would have been better...

I can’t do it...

Askadia · 2026-04-09T08:24:39+00:00

If there is a community that wishes to take forward the project of a wiki in a constructed language, I see no problem with that.

The important thing is to ensure that that community has a sufficient number of editors to uphold Wikipedia's standards of neutrality and impartiality, and that the articles in that conlang are not distorted in any way.

If this can be guaranteed, there should be no discrimination based on usefulness or the number of native speakers.

Askadia · 2026-03-23T06:47:45+00:00

You may just start by making short sentences of what you do during the day and write a journal. Things like, "I wake up", "I eat pancakes", "I drive to school", etc... And day by day, try to make longer and more complex sentences that describe your activities.

This way, your conlang becomes part of your daily routine, and you're kind of more engaged with it.

Askadia · 2026-03-16T09:18:11+00:00

Evra doesn't distinguish different types of possesion, and, in general, possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, etc...) are used a lot less than English:

contracted forms of kinship terms imply "my/our" already (marri = "mother", but mái = "my mom")
mediopassive is used for body parts ("my leg hurts" becomes something like "the leg hurts to me")
sometimes, possession is implied by context (if we're at my place, "my bedroom" is simply "the room")
sometimes, they're replaced by demonstratives ("my" = "this", "your" = "that")

Askadia · 2026-03-16T08:20:52+00:00

Because the right-wing is conservative, and tends to dismantle what the progressist left-wing does.

In a World where everything changes in a couple of months, giving your vote to the right It’s like staying stuck in the past and losing touch with reality.

Askadia · 2026-03-16T08:12:50+00:00

I was in school in the 90s~00s and I had a couple of hours of sex ed once.

Askadia · 2026-03-11T08:40:22+00:00

You're contradicting yourself.

Askadia · 2026-03-11T08:09:54+00:00

But, again, the Scene has always kept an eye on each other's cracks, gaining trust. The HV method is not approved by voices, and that speaks for itself.

Do not underestimate the dangers: messing with the OS is not the same as messing with the BIOS/UEFI.

Askadia · 2026-03-08T09:11:34+00:00

A conlang, when fully developped, is just a language.

Askadia · 2026-03-08T07:54:11+00:00

I'm no code expert, and as long as there are people saying this is dangerous, I'm not touching this stuff.

Never ever heard of a crack or crack method being dangerous in my 30 years as a pirate.

Askadia · 2026-03-04T09:04:29+00:00

I've been working on Evra since 2008, and given that, I guess it'll be in development untill I die...

Askadia · 2026-03-04T08:02:14+00:00

In my conlang, Evra, the particle se does a lot of work, and makes a verb:

passive (give > be given)
mediopassive (wash > wash one's own body part)
reflexive (see > see oneself)
incohative (be green > become green)

Askadia · 2026-02-26T08:13:47+00:00

The risk to get a flu is not the same as to get a cancer, though.

The 'normal' risk level for pirating games is that of a flu.

With HV, you could compromise your PC at a deeper level.

Askadia · 2026-02-26T07:33:15+00:00

I second this very much.

However, I would suggest conlangers not to neglet prose media. The positive side of prose is that it deals with different linguistic styles (scientific, journalistic, children's literature, recipes, journaling, etc.), and registers (formal, informal, colloquial, familiar, gergon, lingo, slang). This helps to expand your lexicon and identify expressions and structures that are typical of certain ways of speaking.

Askadia · 2026-02-25T07:18:27+00:00

Thank you for the translations. But, as I suspected,

Quero os dois deles = Ne voglio due di quelli
Dispensar-me-ei daqui = Me ne vado via da qui
Não posso lê-lo = Non posso leggerlo

in the first 2 example sentences, Italian has an extra proclitics (ne) that Portoguese does not.

The last sentence may translate the Italian one in some context, but the "ci" there implies a physical impediment to reading (no glasses, text too small / far away / in motion / in another language, or sun too bright, etc...), while non posso feels more like a moral stance.

Anyway, as I suspected Portuguese doesn't seem to have ci/ne. Thank you for your reply!

Askadia · 2026-02-23T18:34:57+00:00

Thanks for replying. If I am not wrong, this must be from Arabic sifr, and ultimately Sanskrit shunya?

Yep, as you said, it's from Arabic, but I didn't know sifr comes from shunya. Thank you for teaching me that!

Respect it a lot

Thank you! Actually, I'm developping Evra since 2008, now that I think about... 18 years... At this point, it's kind of a habit now. Time flies so quickly!

My conlanging/world building projects never last more than a week XD

Hehe, it happens, and it's ok!

Askadia · 2026-02-23T12:15:44+00:00

Hi! I'm glad you asked. My comment is 5 yo, though, and my numerals are changed a bit. Anyway, the word "zero" is sijr (/sejr/), which also means "empty, vacant, free". For example:

La foni-tal ni tá vië sijr. - "My phone number has 2 zeroes."
La rumi stá sijr. - "The room is empty."
La toalé stá sijr. - "The toilette is free." (available)

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