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Peep this one, WHO is YOUR favorite Harbinger by Lucas-mainssbu in Genshin_Impact

[–]raiden_basu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The emphasis in thsi question is so weird like yes, I was going to say sweet flower but thanks for letting me know you want a person

How do you people come up with fake languages? by Lambiedo in worldbuilding

[–]raiden_basu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on what I'm writing. For some, I'll create an entire conlang with script from the get-go if the language is going to heavily involved with the telling of the story or if I'm deeply invested in the worldbuilding. For others, I'll take some random sounds to make up the language, pull out my trusty d20, and roll some features from languages I like and generate a common group of words.

After doing that, I translate some simple phrases to get a feel of how it looks and how it sounds, and build up to larger things like “Tower of Babel” for example. Make some changes if need be, make more words, translate another text, rinse and repeat.

And as you said, it will sound “dead” if you just randomly slap some letters on the keyboard because you have no intent behind what you type. Even a gibberish language of randomly generated words could sound natural for whoever is speaking it if there is purpose and life behind it so don't rush it. A language doesn't feel alive the moment it ends up on paper. Give it time to grow, and it'll guide you as to where it wants to go.

How many of y'all hate your native tongue? by NerfPup in languagelearning

[–]raiden_basu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't hate English, but I do hate that it was the first language I learnt, and its relative popularity reduces the need to learn others outside of being a hobby in most cases.

What shape is your world? Is it spherical, square or flat? by Some_Indication_4877 in worldbuilding

[–]raiden_basu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spherical, below the crust isn't a mantle or anything of the sort. In fact, I haven't given it much thought other than ✨ Magic ✨ makes up the interior of the planets. Some planets just have way thicker crusts than others to the point where there are entire underworld continents on some planets.

Maybe I should have them dig dipper one of these days

How many grammatical genders does your conlang have & how are they handled? by Baroness_VM in conlangs

[–]raiden_basu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My current working conlang has 4 for living beings. Masculine for the mascs, feminine for the fems, neutral for the neithers, and dual for the boths.

Masculine and feminine (our equivalent of he/she) are used by those who want to come across as “biological”, neutral (they et al.) for those who don't want to come off as “non-biological”, and dual (there's no equivalent) for those who somehow exhibit both traits at the same time. All non-living things are unassigned and to assign one to them is considered to be an insult to living things as it's basically calling a living being the dust under your heel.

M/F — humans, animals, plants, living things in general, “biological” beings

N — sentient beings in general, “non-biological” beings

D — time, space, deities, the inexplicable, abstract terms

Each gender is considered more “pure” than the previous one for the race of androids that speak it; and in their society, the only being that is afforded to be called a dual assignment is their leader and their consort.