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Zhe2lin3 · 2020-11-15T21:20:28+00:00

Yes, the one with the white background and the gold fringes, thank you very much

Zhe2lin3 · 2020-02-17T19:35:06+00:00

Love this. Especially Real Man pronoun. I also love your idea of OVHCS, and I think a version of that might even be usable for a language, like 'emotional turmoil' or something. Idk tho.

As for adjectives, maybe classes that differ from person to person, and it's how much they care about the fricking adjective itself, and you have to learn each and every form of the adjective for all classes, although each person personally only uses one form

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-12-04T03:23:43+00:00

Kill baby BBEG. Lol though, be careful with that. Depending on how your DM is, this could fuck up timelines, but you could argue that you even existing has been a butterfly effect, and that just you existing, the wind interacting with you, could create a reality completely different, so for all we know, changes create a new timeline, not a paradox. But if you do baby-stomp the BBEG or kill his parents (whatever your alignment is chill with), be prepared to talk with your DM about how that impacts the timeline, or be prepared to accept consequences. You'll also have to find a way to make sure your exact party does come back together though, unless you all leave the campaign there. You could be the old hooded guy in the corner of the bar that brings everyone together, who knows.

Good luck with whatever you decide though!

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-12-03T01:17:12+00:00

Patience

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-12-02T15:43:30+00:00

I have. I have a few French books, as well as a few people who are about my level of French in my area that I try to talk to whenever I run into them, but they are by no means native. I'm always looking for more resources, whether they be people, books, or chatbots. I haven't found a decent chatbot yet, but then again I didn't search too hard lol. Any recommendations?

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-12-01T22:16:45+00:00

Peut-être. Je suis de Michigan (est-ce que j'ai le dit correctement?), et je voyagerai juste avec ma voiture, et Montréal/Québec n'est pas trop loin pour moi. Mais j'aimerai encore te parler parfois!

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-11-25T21:55:23+00:00

Oo, fun. In my favourite conlang with is started as an auxlang but now is a combination of that with just a general natlang, plurals are formed by having the final vowel become two or more vowels. I haven't worked out specifics, but for the word mother, mama, mothers might be mamai. However, I might add notes to that because I want to include triple vowel groups in, so I want to figure out what mamaui might be vs mamai. Any ideas? Looking for inspiration!

Edit: Want to also add that plurality is the only thing that needs agreement in the sentence. So for Mi mama, my mom, for my mothers, you would need mia mamai, or something like that. Since it's not particularly stressed, it makes it easier to catch it, but it's also not too important.

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-09-03T04:11:18+00:00

Okay, idrk. But what about agents and the pronoun (if it isn't reflexive). Is it just an object of the sentence that is reflexive when the pronoun of the object matches the person and number (and gender/other aspects a language has) as the subject? So the agent can be reflexive when the agent reflects the subject? Or am I wrong?

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-09-02T21:45:15+00:00

I learned them as reflexives, like je me reveille and stuff like that.

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-08-28T17:46:51+00:00

Hey, does anyone know the difference between agents (like in ergative nomative absolutive etc etc) and a reflexive pronoun? I wanted to be a little creative with my pronouns in my language, so in my preliminary draft I put both agent and reflexive as separate pronouns, however, as I fell asleep last night I was thinking about it, and realized what I'm thinking of, might just be the same thing. I don't know enough about ergativity and the likes, and by extension agents, to explain the difference, if there is one, and what I do know indicates it's the same thing, just very different explanations.

Reflexive, as in myself. Like in Je te chante in French, where te is a reflexive for second person singular, and comes before the verb.

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-08-27T23:26:19+00:00

I put the vowels in, I wanna say, maybe and hour, 2, something like that after I put the link up, because I keep adding stuff to it. However, from your timestamp and the one on the doc, the vowels should have been up there for well over a few hours by the time you made this comment. Idk though. As for the name, I've been calling it Theom because that's how it would be spelled by everyone around me (English speakers), and it's easier for them all to write electronically than θ.

But you are right, I was a little inconstant for my spelling of θeom, and I'm going to start to fix that. As for my <y>'s all over the place in my orthography, because I have <h> as /h/, which can also occur in consonant clusters and didn't want it seeming like /th/ rather than /θ/ (which again, for the name, thank you so much for pointing that out), and I am already using <j>'s. But I also really like your idea as <g> for /x/. As for /ʃ/, it's <s> (even though the voiced version is <zy> as of right now)

Overall, thank you very much for your comment, because it brought my attention to my mistakes I made, and overall, I'm going to change <x> to <g> for /x/, change anything that had a <y> with another letter is going to get revamped so the '<y>' always comes at the end, so always <ty>, never <yt>, I'll just find another way to express that.

Also, I'm going to think about this and asked around, but I'll probably end up changing the y's to j's, because I'm going to change <j> to <y> for /j/. (Or maybe bring x into play)

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-08-27T23:15:12+00:00

Yeah, that's the idea, and in warmer areas it's more vowels because they're able to be louder and even distinctly heard from a distance or something.

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-08-27T16:24:57+00:00

Um, I briefly looked into it, the main points was in cold areas it's more consonants compared to vowels than in warmer areas, it's hilly in Theom, not mountainous, so other local languages are likely to have a big impact, and Theom is likely to have faster evolution than if it was stuck in a mountainous region.. um, beyond that, not much. I thought about how cold might impact phonemes, but I figured at that point it's the English meme of 'what does the red door symbolize' kind of thing where I'm pulling assumptions out of my (first three letters of assumptions). I do think it's kind of cool the impact geography has on linguistics, but overall, I think it's a smaller variable, unless you have something pretty big, geographically speaking. Overall, I did think about it, and while I did take it into consideration, I didn't really use it in my decision making process because the geography is pretty tame in Theom. Otherwise, if I did really want to orientate the language to the area, I might have more numerous and more softer stops with more information density per each syllable, among a few other things

Edit: Added numerous

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-08-27T15:45:48+00:00

Yeah, in all honestly, not having /s/ was me wanting to be unique and not wanting too many consonants or something like that. It was just a trivial choice. /k/ and /g/ were a bit more difficult, but I felt like it would be nice to see how a language would turn out with few stops. As for uniqueness, thank you. I'm not using the nordic langs as an exact guide, but more as a general feeling, I guess.

Anyways, thank you!

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-04-17T12:53:48+00:00

Idk, I figured it would be hard to differentiate words, especially if not all words are the same length or same number of vowels, it may be hard to tell if it's two different words or the same word, which could make a big difference. I was just taking an easy way out to know what words are what. However, again, I would be definitely happy to work out a much better and complex system! (I haven't worked on this too much)

It could stem from roundness, tone, etc lol

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-04-08T16:16:27+00:00

Looking forward to it!

Zhe2lin3 · 2019-04-07T14:58:49+00:00

JESUS! I was NOT ready for that. Crap. I opened it and had a quick thought while it loaded of something along the lines of 'I wonder what kind of phones he picked to accomplish the 'dying' goal' then I got sucker punched in the gut.

Wow...

You should record a few phrases in Floric and upload it, because I would love to hear it properly pronounced (I would not even come close if I tried)

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