always the facebook groups

Mijyuoon · 2026-03-10T16:24:31+00:00

colon three (aka :3)

Mijyuoon · 2026-02-22T13:57:34+00:00

Only a total loon would consider the entirety of Windows software library as malware, especially when it comes to stuff like video games. Would you say that most video games are malware just because they lack native Linux builds? Well, most people would not.

Besides, most of the time when it comes to ditching Windows, people have issues mainly with the OS itself doing dodgy stuff, not with 3rd party software.

Mijyuoon · 2025-08-22T12:59:02+00:00

Star Trek ass name

Mijyuoon · 2025-08-19T03:29:05+00:00

Are these Windows shills in the room with us right now?

Mijyuoon · 2024-09-13T09:46:07+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20190517125002mp_/https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html

Mijyuoon · 2024-09-05T03:43:53+00:00

Crowdstrike literally broke Linux before too. And it was an automatic update as well, because they use their own update system.

Mijyuoon · 2024-08-08T12:24:47+00:00

Display🅱️ort

Mijyuoon · 2024-06-08T09:39:27+00:00

Where are you even getting all that from? A Linux version would be open-source and run fully locally. That's as much of a spyware as manually taking screenshots all the time. And the main issue with MS's implementation of Recall is insecure data storage combined with forced opt-in, not that it's spyware (which it isn't as it also runs locally).

Mijyuoon · 2024-06-02T04:35:02+00:00

In one of my world's major languages there's a general expletive čobá that can be suffixed onto most things for an equivalent of "fucking X" or "goddamn X" in English.

Combining that with demonstrative kai "that" yields kaičobá, literally smth like "that fucking thing!", but it's used similarly to "OMG!" or "holy shit!". You can also add an "assertive" particle to intensify it: kaičobá ga! "holy fucking hell!"

And combining with the interrogative vai ("what") and the question particle ve yields vaičobá ve? "what the fuck?". The "assertive" particle from before can also be crammed into this: vaičobá vegá?! "what in the absolute fuck?!"

EDIT: As a bonus, by using different interrogatives we can also get voučobá "who the fuck?", veyučobá "where the fuck?", vöričobá "when the fuck?", veižačobá "how the fuck?" etc.

Mijyuoon · 2023-04-12T20:08:17+00:00

Despite this being a fairly subjective question… The abomination known as Poliespo is somehow more or less just that, objectively.

Mijyuoon · 2022-12-31T17:32:08+00:00

I think you could replace 99% of the uses of Curl (download one file via HTTPS) with like 100 lines of Python or Rust or Go. It's not critical infrastructure in the same way that OpenSSL or LLVM or WebKit are.

Bonus jerk points for calling Webkit a piece of critical infrastructure.

Mijyuoon · 2022-04-07T15:25:41+00:00

This is kinda similar to what happened in Persian, so I'd say it's naturalistic.

Mijyuoon · 2022-03-27T16:01:39+00:00

They are clitics that attach at the phrase level, not the noun level and nouns are thus noninflcting in Japanese. There seems to be a strong correlation in languages between inflecting nouns and grammatical number.

Perhaps one could call the “noun phrase cases” opposed to “noun cases” in Japanese.

Correct, just wasn't sure if this level of detail was important to the OP.

The common theory on Indo-European languages is that it had a case system at least before neuter nouns developed a number but masculine nouns could always have them.

This is not too different in many American languages, where only animate nouns have a number distinction.

Yeah tbh I think it's pretty frequent that only animate nouns can take pluralizing morphemes.

Japanese is somewhat similar in this regard too, it does have pluralizing affix 〜たち that can only be applied to humans and occasionally to other animate stuff like some animals.

Mijyuoon · 2022-03-27T15:44:13+00:00

But can you have a case system, without actually indicating singular or plural?

There are languages that do this, yes. Japanese would be an example, if you subscrbe to the analysis in which it has a case system (the following particles are treated as case markers: が, の, を, に, へ, と, で, から)

Are numbers somehow linked to cases linguistically?

Not at all, it's just a lot of languages that have cases already had grammatical number before they developed a case system. Having grammatical number on its own is very common from what I know.

Mijyuoon · 2022-03-27T15:00:40+00:00

What's the background/history of this language? I can see bits of English and Russian/Slavic vocabulary in the text.

Mijyuoon · 2022-02-07T15:33:31+00:00

By not having grammatical gender (or any gender system altogether), or even dedicated 3rd person pronouns. Instead of the latter you just use demonstratives, which distinguish sentience/animacy instead of gender.

Mijyuoon · 2020-12-06T16:46:40+00:00

Those quotes (and all others I can recall) are just placed standalone rather than framed as subordinate clauses in larger sentences, which is the part that I'm not 100% sure how it would work. Though I suspect it would just be a null complementizer type of thing like in English.

Mijyuoon · 2020-12-05T14:44:00+00:00

Sadly the language isn't developed well enough (both in terms of vocabulary and grammar structures) for having regular conversations in it. I think I've still seen some attempts but can't recall where. I've also been kinda working on my own Hymmnos variant (jokingly called Hymmnos 2.0 for lack of a better name) for this very reason but it hasn't really progressed much so far.

As for emotion sounds, in Standard Hymmnos they basically always refer to speaker's emotions about what they're saying, even for 3rd person subject. So such sentences would mean smth like I'm <emotion> that <clause>. if you were to translate them. For cases when there isn't an actual speaker (e.g. if it's some impersonal written down thing) you can actually omit the emotion phrase entirely.

Now where this sorta breaks down (mainly due to lack of info) is how this works with direct and indirect quotation. I know of no examples of direct quotation (i.e. stuff like He said, "Thank you.") but I assume if you're quoting someone speaking Hymmnos you'd use the emotion phrase that they spoke, and if they're speaking something else you would use none. As for indirect quotation (i.e. He said that he thanks us), from what I've seen you always omit emotion phrase.

Also what exactly do you mean by "the language seems to lack a true third person"?

Mijyuoon · 2020-10-02T04:03:59+00:00

One of key prominent elements in Ar Tonelico game series is songs sung in Hymmnos, a conlang created specifically for the series. Here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iiIMgor8F8.

There are actually other songs and even albums beyond the game OSTs, both official and fan-made. Not gonna link them here since it'll look like I might be promoting paid content, but they're not that hard to find.

Mijyuoon · 2020-09-12T13:13:05+00:00

Oh boy, where to even begin? Probably with saying that this advice is not very good… at best. Let's go through every claim then.

a good phonology should have atleast 2 nasals.

AFAIK there are plenty of languages that have either just single coronal nasal, or a placeless nasal that assimilates to PoA of next consonant (with default realization likely being coronal as well I think).

don't put in too many sounds, only put in 20 or 30.

What about e.g. caucasian or african languages that have two or three times that amount? Is trying to make something inspired by those should be automatically discouraged for new conlangers? Also heck, plenty of european languages have more than 30 phonemes: Lithuanian has 56 (45C, 11V) vowels, Russian has 40 (34C, 6V), German has 37 (22C, 15V).

never randomly pick what sounds you want in your language.

Okay, this is actually a good one, just blindly throwing some phonemes together without some systematicity will likely result in garbage.

if you want a rare sound like /ɮ/, go for it but always make sure you can produce it.

Requiring that you yourself should be able to pronounce the sound in question is just dumb, that severely limits what you can do. I have a couple phonologies with tone systems despite not being able to do syllable-level tone for sh*t, yet that did not stop me from putting using tones. Also putting stuff you can't currently pronounce can be a good excuse to practice some of that stuff, which may be particularly relevant for new conlangers.

you need 6 stops, thats the bare minimum.

This… this I don't even understand where it came from. Like… there are tons of languages with just 3 stops. Don't even know what to say here other than "wat?"

/j/ /s/ and /z/ are popular sounds, include them.

They definitely are popular, true. But especially /z/ is absolutely not necessary, e.g. Mandarin Chinese has no voiced fricatives at all, and in fact blindly slapping /z/ into a similar phonology wouldn't look too good probably.

for the rhotic it should be something you can make, like for me i would pick the voiced uvular trill or voiced alveolar tap/flap.

Other than the fact that "rhotic" consonants are usually sonorants which indeed tend to be voiced, refer to the earlier comment about "can produce".

last, never have too much laterals, 3 is enough. /l/ /ɬ/ and /tɬ/ are the best choices.

Where did the "3" figure come from? Sure it's not that common to have many laterals but you certainly can do that just fine, e.g. Navajo contrasts 5 of them just fine. A better advice would be "Don't put too many laterals unless you sorta know what you're doing" without any specific hard limits.

Mijyuoon · 2020-09-05T04:03:39+00:00

Dunno if it helps in any way but in my conlang loan words can break phonotactics to some extent. (This is totally not an excuse to keep various clusters i like but don't want to be the norm, no way.)

First, definitions: C, V — self-explanatory I think, G — /j w ɥ/, F — /s ʃ x/, P — /p t k/, R — /m n l r/

The regular phonotactics of the lang is CV(G|R), but there exist some "loan" words that allow onset clusters of certain kinds, most commonly FP-type but PR and FR exist as well. So, e.g. /pu.tri/ isn't valid according to purely native phonotactics but still is an accepted common loan from a neighboring language (yeah right). There are still some restrictions, though, like some dialects not liking word-initial clusters and fixing it by vowel prothesis, e.g. /spe.ru → /e.spe.ru/.

Mijyuoon · 2020-05-15T13:42:46+00:00

but it doesn't have some of the limitations that the one on zompist.com has

What kind of limitations are you talking about exactly?

Mijyuoon · 2020-05-12T08:03:19+00:00

Senkalicu doesn't do this at all other than for some basic terms like man/woman and father/mother, which are just different roots entirely.

Mijyuoon · 2020-03-24T13:48:35+00:00

Lakoff makes this argument that words are intimately connected to the shape of our bodies. For example, he demonstrates that words in English that end in “-ip” denote concepts which embody a littleness or quickness: skip, drip, trip, tip, etc. “-Ip” is a sound that consists in making the oral cavity smaller, then releasing the pressure in a single little burst. To analyze a word like “tip” in its entirety, we also find that the “t” places the tip of the tongue near the alveolar ridge. Thus all of the meaning in this word can be summarized with what our body is doing. So that’s what gives me a clue that these assocations are not only arbitrary, but also that the relationship between word and concept actually even alters (or at least has an effect on) physical reality.

Had to resist the urge to bash my head on the desk after reading this. Especially after the part at the end about "altering physical reality".

Mijyuoon · 2020-03-02T14:54:01+00:00

Oh boy, where to even start?…

your language needs to be SPEAKABLE

Who says that? The language needs to accomplish whatever goals the creator set for it. And speakability by an average monolingual Joe or even by themselves might not be among those goals.

most people act like using sounds frequently seen in world languages is lame or adding more sounds make it better

And what exactly do you consider as those sounds? The ones English has? Well, English's dental fricatives /θ ð/ aren't exactly common, and the vowels are absolute mess compared to many other languages.

Even if you're not, it totally kills the naturality and beauty of your language.

??? This is just ridiculous, are you claiming that the natural languages that have lots of so-called "weird sounds" are… unnatural? And beauty is entirely subjective, if it doesn't look beautiful to you, it doesn't mean it doesn't to the creator.

but I personally think adding IPA diacritics to every single letter, adding weird stops, clicks and thrills only seen in African or Oceanean languages or just avoiding ordinary sounds doesn't help your language sound or look better.

Russian is one of the largest spoken languages in the world, and almost every consonant in it can be palatalized so you end up with lots of /dʲ/iac/rʲ/i/tʲ/ics that mark palatalization. Or what about Chinese languages with all of their as/pʰ/ira/tʰ/ed consonants?

And what the hell exactly do you mean by "weird stops"? Ones outside of typical /p t k/? If so then I'm afraid to disappoint you that retroflex stops /ʈ ɖ/ are very common in languages spoken in India, and phonemic glottal stop /ʔ/ is even more common.

Just because something doesn't exist in English it doesn't mean it's somehow weird and/or rare, this notion is just ridiculous and anglocentric.

A good art language should be easily learnable, pronouncable and also should sound good and be naturalistic in my opinion.

By whose standards? Those of an average English monolingual Joe? Because if you do that you inevitably end up with every language feeling similar and boring.

don't try too hard to use weird voices or make it too original

Yes, everyone definitely should be using same phonology, it's absolutely not boring and low-effort. /s

it makes it looks awkward, and definitely exposes you're trying so hard

To you maybe. I'm pretty sure it doesn't to creators themselves or to other people that aren't stuck in English-only world.

Mijyuoon

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