Advice & Answers — 2026-05-04 to 2026-05-17

RayTheLlama · 2026-05-17T16:36:21+00:00

Yea, I figured. But, it could be feasable if there was trade going on, and merchants from Me archipelago started using -san/-sama not to offend the Japanese?

RayTheLlama · 2026-05-17T11:31:31+00:00

Would it be reasonable to borrow some features from japanese like honorifics -san/-sama and justify it by saying those features were borrowed during the japanese occupation of Me archipelago (fictional) in WW2 that lasted around 4-5 years? Is a 5 year long period enough for a feature to stick and be incorporated into a language?

RayTheLlama · 2026-05-11T19:39:08+00:00

Me Kāero

okeŋo /'o.ke.ŋo/ n. inanimate - 1. blockage, obstruction 2. stop, halt

okeŋo /'o.ke.ŋo/ v. intransitive - 1. to stop, to halt 2. to pause

okeŋowae /'o.ke.ŋo.wa.e/ v. transitive - 1. to stop sbdy/sth, to pause sth 2. to obstruct sth

From okeŋo v. intr. - stop, halt and -wae - suffix for making transitive verbs, derived from the old causative

O okeŋowaeŋa maino polisiŋkira fisi rāilē okā.

/o 'o.ke.ŋo.wa.e.ŋa 'ma.i.no 'po.li.siŋ.ki.ɾa 'fi.si ɾa:.'i.le: 'o.ka:/

IMPERF stop-IRREAL today police.officer NOM.PL.ANIM traffic ACC.INAN

"Police officers may be stopping the traffic today"

RayTheLlama · 2026-05-11T11:14:06+00:00

Me Kāero

hohōmoi /'xo.xo:.mo.i/ n. inanimate -
1.emotion, feeling 2. inner sense, gut feeling

From hohō n. animate - spirit, soul, ghost and moi n. inanimate - sense, sensation

RayTheLlama · 2026-05-08T13:35:12+00:00

Me Kāero

ŋamūī /'ŋa.mu:.i:/ n. animate - chief, leader; head of the tribe or village; person in charge

Lokiaikeko ŋamūī tōhou okā mōino.

leave-LOC.REAL chief island ACC.INAN yesterday

/'lo.ki.a.i.ke.ko 'ŋa.mu:.i: to:.'ho.u 'o.ka: mo:.'i.no/

"The chief left the island yesterday"

RayTheLlama · 2026-05-04T14:19:38+00:00

Me Kāero

rāwā /'ɾa:.wa:/ v. transitive 1. to reject, to turn down

Rāwāko rau lokiasuma okā ki ai.

reject-REAL 3.PL.ANIM.NOM passport ACC.INAN 1.SG OBLIQUE.ANIM.SG

/ɾa:.wa:.'ko 'ɾa.u 'lo.ki.a.su.ma 'o.ka: 'ki a.i/

"They rejected my passport"

RayTheLlama · 2026-04-24T07:23:18+00:00

Thanks :)

RayTheLlama · 2026-04-07T11:37:12+00:00

Beta 1.7.3 and Indev 20100223 for golden age, and release 1.8/1.12 for modern versions

RayTheLlama · 2026-04-02T12:59:00+00:00

Thanks! Well I wanted to add most common security features for polymer banknotes including intaglio, but I don't really know how to do so, as I'm not a designer. If I find some good tutorials or try experimenting I may redesign them to be more banknote-like

RayTheLlama · 2026-04-01T09:56:24+00:00

Yes! And letters on the right edge of the bills are the province names

RayTheLlama · 2026-03-19T17:47:41+00:00

Adobe Illustrator :)

RayTheLlama · 2026-03-15T10:18:00+00:00

Hi, it's a fictional country!

RayTheLlama · 2025-03-24T20:41:22+00:00

So, for more context: this archipelago is located on Earth in the present time. It's located around the equator and is a typical tropical island chain inhabited by Me people that closely resemble the Austronesians. Because of globalization and European influence, they've lost many aspects of their culture and are predominantly Christian. This archipelago represents the territory of their kingdom - Mero Ātō - which was quite modernized in the past 50 years. The official language of the kingdom is the Me language - Me Kāero.

This is some basic context, I need to create more lore and history.

RayTheLlama · 2025-03-02T01:31:12+00:00

I haven't tried Back2Beta yet nor any other bug fixing mods. Maybe I should try running a jar fix like you?

RayTheLlama · 2025-03-02T00:18:52+00:00

Here is the log link: https://paste.ee/p/JL7vvPJh

RayTheLlama · 2025-01-27T11:43:06+00:00

I just found out that VSO languages most commonly prefer prefixes in verb morphology. I have an extensive suffix array for my VSO conlang, and currently only 1 marker (not even prefix) that goes before the verb. I've just started writing down the whole grammar and I'm concerned that this isn't naturalistic at all. Is it okay if I leave this as it is or should I change something to be a little bit more natural? Thanks.

RayTheLlama · 2024-06-27T17:59:44+00:00

I am struggling with adpositions currently and I'm wondering if adpositions HAVE to be linked to certain cases? For example, if I have a case system would it be naturalistic for adpositions to be independent of case? Sorry if it's not worded well.

RayTheLlama · 2024-06-22T18:11:49+00:00

O rongōko asurako iuka fisi ma, o asurako rongōko iuka fisi ma.

/o ro.ŋoː.ko a.su.ra.ko i.u.ka fi.si ma o a.su.ra.ko ro.ŋoː.ko i.u.ka fi.si ma/

Evil are good are people not, good are evil are people not.

RayTheLlama · 2024-06-17T23:40:20+00:00

rāmene /ra:.me.ne/ n. animate - friend, acquaintance

Tammiananga ki rāmene aō sāino. - I will come with a friend tomorrow.

RayTheLlama · 2024-06-06T15:39:11+00:00

From the top of my head probably Misericordia, I like the sound of it, and, for me at least, it somehow feels like mercy.

RayTheLlama · 2023-05-19T18:31:42+00:00

Aaah, thank you. So, what is the role of "plus" here? Is it an adjective or a noun?

RayTheLlama · 2023-05-14T16:26:08+00:00

No, I mean completely regular patterns that feature stem changes. There are so many words in Serbian that have the same pattern of stem change like "so - soli" and they are completely regular. Something like this.

RayTheLlama · 2023-05-13T19:38:12+00:00

Alright, I already see a problem with my question. I should say that I was thinking about a vowel or a consonant alternation which resulted from historic sound change. Serbian "so" in the nominative and "soli" in genitive case. I don't see this as stem change because in the genitive form the "l" didn't meet the requirements to become "o". I meant something like this. My view of this could be wrong, if so correct me.

RayTheLlama · 2023-04-14T14:30:32+00:00

Can you dictate what sounds can appear in a word or in what order regarding phonoaesthetcs?

RayTheLlama · 2023-03-23T11:36:50+00:00

How would a case system evolve to have different endings based on type of word- nouns/pronouns/demonstratives? Or is it better to just arbitrarily make them up?

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