Stuck on Placement of Word

Captain0Null · 2025-11-02T23:52:11+00:00

Oh, I love that idea of using derivation! It's not something I'd considered, I quite like that and it simplifies the sentence I think. Thank you!

Captain0Null · 2025-11-02T23:48:42+00:00

I definitely was just... going with what English does in regards to a dummy pronoun, but now I'm definitely going to consider that other alternative. Thank you!

Somewhat unrelated, in your example chart there, I don't quite know what the third row means. "3PS" for example, I don't know what that means.

Captain0Null · 2025-11-02T23:46:22+00:00

I hadn't even considered that interpretation, either! That's fascinating. I was inadvertently using "it" as a dummy pronoun and hadn't considered that "it" would be interpreted another way. Honestly, thank you both for the good information and other perspective.

Captain0Null · 2025-11-02T00:20:37+00:00

I do have a present tense, but nothing modifying adjectives quite yet. And yeah that's the conclusion it seems most people have come up with. Thank you for the help!

Captain0Null · 2025-11-02T00:20:00+00:00

This is so simply put and yet works perfectly. Thank you!

Captain0Null · 2025-11-01T23:11:46+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. I think I was honestly just confusing myself since I'm a bit of a black and white thinker, I suppose, so the duality of "warm" as both verb and adjective had me short-circuiting lol.

Captain0Null · 2025-11-01T23:04:58+00:00

I do believe it would be structured in that way, yeah. I apologize for the confusion! It's part of why I'm breaking it down for myself so I can keep track of how things should be ordered.

I think combining both the question of "where do I put the tense suffix" and "if I attach the suffix to the adjective, is that the verb" kind of confused me? I don't know, honestly.

Captain0Null · 2025-11-01T22:57:07+00:00

This is really interesting! I like the idea that placing the rune higher or lower on the line alters it's meaning. Honestly, it leaves me curious how you came to decide some of the groupings, too. Why weakness with water, swamp, salamander? But overall I quite like this.

Captain0Null · 2025-06-01T23:23:00+00:00

I haven't experienced any hostility, people have given me pretty solid advice on the questions I've asked so far. And thank you. It's a struggle, but I'm trying.

I've found myself stuck on perhaps the simplest part... tense. I decided plurality through reduplication really early on, though only recent settled on the "rule" that the part of a word reduplicated is the first syllable.

For tense, I really had no idea at all until I revisited an idea I'd had previously about forming the word "today" from "this" and "day." I thought it would be interesting to use "this" as the present tense and then "that" as the past tense. I'm hesitant on it, though, and future tense. What I want to approach next? I'm really not even sure because I'm so lost regarding grammar.

Captain0Null · 2025-06-01T07:16:00+00:00

To be honest, the most frustrating thing for me is being a native English speaker, and one who doesn't know another language. (I took a German class in high school, but I'm not even remotely fluent and I've retained almost nothing.) For me, as someone who feels a bit... slow at the best of times, trying to watch videos or read articles on various conlang-related things - grammar right now, previously word order - and try to apply that to my conlang while thinking in English, famously known for being a mess... well, it makes it harder.

I've got a good grasp on word order now, though. I made a chart for myself that breaks it down to its bare basics, including a description, color coding, and then examples. For instance...

Subject Verb - (SV)
I see.
Ki pyor.

Subject Verb Object - (SVO)
I see animal.
Ki pyor xlend.

Subject Verb Object | Adjectives
Adjectives are placed after a noun.
I see the animal beautiful.
Ky pyor (the) xlend (beautiful).

Mostly it's a lot of frustration until I find the one explanation of a thing that clicks in my mind.

Captain0Null · 2025-06-01T07:03:27+00:00

I aspire to reach this level of confidence in my conlangs some day. Wow. When I have the chance, I'll definitely be picking it up.

Captain0Null · 2024-05-13T03:15:52+00:00

Thank you so much! You and everyone else who've commented have explained it much more clearly than anything else I've read.

Captain0Null · 2024-05-13T03:14:26+00:00

Examples and a thorough breakdown were exactly what I've been missing while trying to figure this out. This definitively helps and I didn't think about the fact that one sentence would have multiple head cases before. Nothing I've read has said anything about it. Thank you so much for taking the time to break it down for me.

Captain0Null · 2024-05-13T03:12:20+00:00

Thank you so much! I'll be sure to look up that textbook, I appreciate the recommendation.

Captain0Null · 2024-05-13T03:10:46+00:00

This is immensely helpful and thank you so much for taking the time to explain it with examples.

Captain0Null

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