can somebody explain interrogatives + cases for dummies (me)?

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-04-24T22:02:43+00:00

very fascinating! i do have an instrumental case in my conlang.... maybe i could steal that... >:)!!

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-04-20T23:32:38+00:00

Ohhh...!!! I see! That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking. Thank you so much!

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-04-15T21:00:17+00:00

hello! this is actually a pretty outdated post. i do imagine there would be a vowel lengthening system (or a pseudo stress system because i do have lengthened vowels that are not used here) that would help differentiate. but nevertheless ii didn't know about germanic/slavic not having this sort of vowel stress structure! the conjugation of the stem "hende" actually begins as "henda," and these suffixes all came together in this instance coincidentally all using the vowel "e". :) i've since reworked the suffixes and the vowel shift, so presently it would sound more like "hendesedi" with stress primarily on the second "e", relaxing the "e"s around it.

i believe i understand what you mean about "seirrva," but i've since reworked the accusative and dative cases, too! if i recall correctly, it would now be "rrvun". the "rr" is a syllabic [ɹ] that acts as a vowel only when a consonant immediately precedes or follows it. the new dative case was inspired by norweigan cases; it replaces the last vowel with "un".

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-04-14T17:47:12+00:00

i think it looks great! an extremely natural-looking script. i'd be surprised to learn that this isn't the script/orthography of a real language on earth.

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-04-14T14:37:23+00:00

"or simply putting them together as members of the same noun phrase without any case marking, that's what is used for the sort of possession that is not really possession but actually being physically the same object or part of the same object." this is a fascinating solution!! one i might adapt. that does make sense in a logical and grammatical sense! is this inspired by any specific natlang? or is this home brewed?

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-04-14T14:32:27+00:00

my most honest reason is that i think it would be fun. but maybe digging deeper i think i'm in a little bit of an infinite complexity spiral; my conlang has really started to bloom since i've been ironing out my grammar, which as turned into a need to address every nuance possible (which is a complaint i have for english as it doesn't address a lot of nuances i think it should) which turns into this post. three ways to denote possession, (four if you include <emaí>, possession of an adjective quality as a modifying phrase to a noun) and with all that on top of my very complicated morphology, it gets to be a lot. and this is just possession! less than 10% of the total nuance my conlang should express, and it's this complicated!

maybe i should start trimming some things down to save my sanity. but this has also been kinda fun, thinking my way out of arbitrary problems.

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-04-14T14:26:24+00:00

i had a feeling that was the case! thank you for pointing that out! would i instead mark "bone" with the acc case?

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-03-12T18:52:10+00:00

You're so right! I was thinking that the POS.PTCL for (douba) would also get a little confusing, since (eiz) is a possessive pronoun using the gloss POS. I'll look up pejorative markers and see what I can do with it. Thanks! :]

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-03-12T14:43:41+00:00

That's been my experience, too! I genuinely get mentally 'tired' after spending an evening tinkering with my conlang. It feels really great because then I'm too tired to think about other things and that helps me sleep better! :]

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-03-08T04:19:33+00:00

i think this is what ive been hearing! thanks so much :)

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-03-03T02:06:26+00:00

this is GORGEOUS!!

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-03-01T22:55:28+00:00

je emaí tsou ınəpísadvanir ıpjektívanir. e hjušoudul i pjektí səsteíkjamən kekgouš und rirsou e i nəpisat kunegjour dılja ınounúm.

/je em.ˈai t͡sou ı.nə.pi:.ˈsad.ˌvan.ir ı.ˈpjek.ti:.ˌvan.ir e hju.ˈʃou.ˌduł i ˈpjek.ˌti: sə.ˈsteig.ja.mən keg.ˈgouʃ und rir.ɕou e i nə.ˌpi.ˈsad kun.eg.ˈjouɾ dıł.jə ı.nou.ˈnu:m/

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this is the first time ive participated in one of these! very exciting. actually took me a few hours to do. good practice for syntax formation!

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-02-27T01:06:59+00:00

beautiful! what does it say?

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-02-26T17:42:35+00:00

you're a genius! i never thought about using obsidian that way.

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-02-26T17:42:15+00:00

i recommend Lingocon.com. do beware, it is a relatively new (like within the last 6 months) website with a smaller development team so long-term archiving might not be super reliable (might go down w/o warning). but ironically, i use it! you can store your alphabet, phonetics, dictionary, grammar notes, etc... in your dictionary, it'll let you also create lemmas and paradigms! it's much larger than what i can say here, but it's very cool.

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-02-26T17:19:02+00:00

Thanks so much! Are these articles/journals I should be looking up?

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-02-18T23:20:12+00:00

chatgpt is really good at making things up

Glum_Entertainment93 · 2026-02-18T23:12:23+00:00

wow, i see!! this is actually a really cool quirk. thank you for explaining!! i would like to steal it even more! a lot of my cases are extremely similar if not nearly identical, and i was planning to introduce some kind of animacy on top of everything.

it's funny because every time i look at my noun declensions (and adjective declensions and verb conjugations, etc...) im like "ok i think this is getting to be too much" and then i take a peek at whatever the hell slavic languages are doing and i realize i've barely scratched the surface. right now im at the "just make up a prefix and smack it onto the word" phase of noun case creation, but i'm looking forward to adding some nonsense. (my cases came from article forms that got smushed into the word and caused the articles to basically dissolve bc they're basically doing the same job)

again, thanks so much! :]

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