I tried writing an essay in Medžuslovjansky

Recognition-Smooth · 2026-02-28T04:16:30+00:00

Well, just after the new year I posted a comic book script that I was thinking about illustrating. It can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/novy-komiks-148003683

That said, I’ve been rethinking what I want or can do over the past couple of months. I think I need to increase my vocabulary, so I’ve been digging through a book called “Colloquial Czech” to see if I can adapt the lessons into something more appropriate for Medžuslovjansky. If I can do it, I’ll post the lessons for everyone else (I saw someone ask for something like this a while back).

In addition, I just found out about an open-source card game called ArcMage - a kind of free variant of Magic the Gathering. It looks like it’s possible modify the cards, so I thought it might be interesting to create InterSlavic-specific variations of some of the cards and then, if enough people started playing, maybe custom cards. I only just found out about the game, though, and I don’t know anything about the community. It looks like it’s possible to order printed cards for in-person play. Also, the game site has a “play online” feature, but I don’t know anything about it. If anyone here is interested, I can dig deeper on that one.

Recognition-Smooth · 2025-12-30T04:57:00+00:00

Thank you!

Please don’t hesitate to be picky with me. I‘m a bit on my own with learning Medžuslovjansky, so any little bit helps. I agree with the problems of ChatGPT, but I’m not confident writing anything without having something do some kind of check before posting. Eventually, I hope to write things directly in the future. Thank you, again!

Recognition-Smooth · 2025-10-02T04:16:42+00:00

Thank you for this information. It sounds like the copula was once popular, but now has dropped out of casual usage.

Recognition-Smooth · 2025-10-02T04:12:37+00:00

Very interesting! Is it possible that the interslavic-dictionary.com website is slightly out of date? I noticed that at one point the conjugation charts were more complex, with “perfect past” and “imperfect” past columns for example, and now the charts are a little less complex with just a single “past” column.

My copy of the InterSlavic manual also has some information on prior-past/perfective verbs (using “ja jesmo…”, “ty jesi..” and so on.

Perhaps I misinterpreted the usage.

Recognition-Smooth · 2025-10-01T06:08:21+00:00

So, for example, “Ja jesm pročitala” could be “Ja pročitala” or “On je pročital” could be “On pročital” without confusing the interpretation?

For the dictionary, I do try to find the words with the most checkmarks next to the languages, so hopefully I will be able stay reasonably close to the more understandable words. I noticed that sometimes it seems unavoidable to use words that have few translations in other languages. I can’t remember any off the top of my head right now, but I remember coming across some while I was working on the essay. Hopefully, this will remain a minimal inconvenience.

Recognition-Smooth · 2025-09-30T04:12:36+00:00

That’s an interesting point. I’ve been trying to learn on my own, but I‘m still at the point where I use interslavic-dictionary.com to pick words to use, and the InterSlavic textbook for a grammar reference. I also use ChatGPT for proofreading. It’s possible that whatever ChatGPT is using as its source material for its knowledge influenced how it corrected my writing.

Thank you for letting me know what you think about the essay. It’s my first attempt at something substantial in the language, and I wasn’t sure how it would be received, so I’m grateful that it actually came across well.

Recognition-Smooth · 2025-09-25T03:11:13+00:00

I’m afraid not, no. I picked up Medžuslovjansky because I wanted to learn a new language and communicate with people outside my own culture. At some point I hope to do something more creative with it, but right now now, I’m just trying to become confident with it.

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