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We don't get much fog here, anyway.

Hyolobrika wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 2:27 pm

Pabappa wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:29 am We eat whales and dolphins

We consume whale products or at least used to, we don't eat them.
We accidentally catch dolphins in nets made for tuna, we don't eat them.

Some countries, including Japan, still hunt and eat whales.

Each race in the world of Ajjamah has a Gift inherent to their people, some magic they can do instinctively. I'd be interested to hear about the other Gifts. I'm also interested to know about the "Zombies" on your map. Laws of the land are implanted directly into people's heads using the ...

I like this idea. Not sure how defensible it is but who cares.

I'm trying to develop a phonotactic structure to build syllables that, while not English, aren't as strangely alien. What you define as alien is a matter of taste. Nuxalk (a real-world language) has words like clhp’xwlhtlhplhhskwts’ . Looks alien? And yet it's a real word spoken by real people. Whi...

I feel you need to provide more details. What is "somewhat Western" even supposed to mean? With the kind of information you gave, we would have to throw random ideas at you until you decide you like something. Not very efficient. What jumps out at me is that your phonology is very weird. N...

Speaking of horrible phonologies, Hixkaryana has the weirdest five vowel system I've ever seen: /æ e ɔ ɯ u/. I get it, you want to be special, but really? This and your language is OVS? You know there's more to conlanging than being weird, right?

Thanks for the explanation. It's incredible how different the Zzyxwqnp text looks in the two romanizations.

This was surprisingly fun to read.

I have one question. How did this romanization come about?:

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:23 pm Zzx-zzyx /dzə̂ⁿdẑ̩/

My favorites so far in this thread:

HourouMusuko wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:00 pm PIE-creator: [snip]
If this were a natlang, I'd imagine it would quickly die out and leave no legacy. Keep up the good work, though.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:24 am Spanish (the language of Span, apparently)

Polish is such a tryhard conlang. I mean - you need over 100 conjugations to fully account for all patterns in the language? Like what? And even when you ignore exceptions is something like 17 conjugations. The author just loves making tables or something. Also: ever heard about analogy? The romaniz...

I'll admit that second post was a tad confusing but I'm also far from an expert. Going one by one, I think the developments from RA-2 to RA-3 make sense. One thing I was wondering reading this: since instrumentals and agentives pattern together in RA-3 (same marking options, and they are the only tw...

yangfiretiger121 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:19 am I have used both *C and <C>, where C represents any character, for orthography. While I know <C> is for orthography, what's the proper use of *C?

The asterisk is used to describe an earlier, historical form, or (sometimes) a theoretically possible but incorrect form.

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:38 am

gestaltist wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:41 am I use WALS to learn about strategies I might not know about

That was basically what I was saying as well.

I interpreted your post more as looking at popularity of ideas you already know....

I use WALS to learn about strategies I might not know about - or simply have forgotten. I also use it to remind myself what topics I need to cover to make a complete conlang.

Thanks for doing this analysis. It gave me some new ideas for my current project.

What would be the benefit for the sailors to kill the rats? It would sure be a lot of work that would not only have a poor return on investment, but would also remove an alarm system from the ship. Seeing rats leave the ship was a surefire way to know you have a leak.

In short; think carefully about your phonology and the romanization. Make your phonotactics coherent and the transcription plausible yet distinctive. I feel the two things necessary to get that coherent feel are morphophonological processes and diachronic sound change. Both are a lot of work, and f...

I think there's a bug in your S/Z categories: when you take the default set, voiceless stops pattern with voiced fricatives/affricates, and vice versa.

HourouMusuko wrote: ↑Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:36 pm Don't get bogged down in complex phonology and fail to progress any further into your language. Phonology can be a roadblock. But it's not the be-all end-all.

Unfortunately I see that sometimes.

I needed to hear that today. Thanks.