Zompist Bboard Again

That was the ~72-year-old Tersas. Now for some mid-20s Tersas! ... sort of; the morning and evening prayers predate him but these are 'his' versions that go along with his Sacred Laws. Eru. 4, 6-8 reflect an apocalyptic strand of Telian religion; however, at Tersas's own (mostly anti-apocalyptic) hi...

‘Band-aid’ seems fine to me. The whole point of genericisation is that the word is no longer perceived as a brand name. Thank you! What do other people think? In lowercase ('band-aid' or even 'bandaid') it's less obtrusive. You said American English so I can't suggest 'plaster' instead ... (: For '...

eseanihwe came alles camos ellu.
May (his/her) life return to the god of life.

Not much to comment but this is beautiful euphonious prose and I like that you have baked textual ambiguity into it for your conpeople to quibble over in translation. It's a long in-world text, too; with your poetry included it would be interesting to see such a large compendium of in-world religio...

I've ended up editing prose texts I already have: updating words/forms that I've changed, and catching little errors (turns out hwea 'herb' and hwella 'old [person]' are hard to keep straight). Tiniaiya ('Last Utterance') is done, 774 words of Heláin so maybe too long to post here. Here's a bit. The...

1. We are never really sure of the result, either. 2. I think when people choose to call their conlang an auxlang, or a loglang, or an artlang, they're saying something about the overriding purpose or goal of the conlang. For instance, calling something an auxlang labels it as primarily meant for ea...

Something that helps me with Verdurian poetry is ya , the perfect marker which can also reinforce meaning in a non-specific sort of way like ‘indeed’, as it is short and can be somewhat overapplied if it helps form a more euphonious line. Japanese poetics has a class of such morphemes* ‒ known as k...

... nooooo! lin 'be heard' has one -n, so that doesn't work either.

I need more poetry for practicing my revised script. I've got one good line for a hymn that's very different from the last hymn ... linn a beth inaiyeor' allos ad, filtahwenna. be.heard.IMP ABS.PL people law-ABS.PL god-GEN.M strong, prophecy-ABS.PL Hear, O people, the mighty god's Laws, the propheci...

1. Developed religious/philosophical texts are always interesting -- and your 'Hive of Being' sounds especially so. Have you posted any of it around here? 2. Actually I find 'uselessness' comforting. Conlanging isn't the kind of thing that I can even hope will matter in the sense of getting me anyth...

1. 'alphabet' seems like rather a broad category to find repulsive. I guess if you mean 26 glyphs (or 54 glyphs, capital and lowercase) corresponding to English A-to-Z, for a language that isn't English, that's a little silly. (Even for the language that *is* English, it's a little silly! Or at leas...

Long ago, when NaNoWriMo existed and had not yet disqus-ified their fora, the most active thread in the Fantasy genre forum was 'Respond, Answer, Ask'. Each post (after the first two) had three parts: 1. a response to the previous poster's answer; 2. an answer to the previous poster's question; and ...

@sasasha thank you! your advice helped a lot! (: I keep tweaking the nasals -- I really like the leftward 'swashes' in isolation, but they start to look a little cluttered when a word has more than one. Maybe the 'swashy' nasals can be reserved for the beginning of a word, and I'll come up with a si...

I think for <lf> and <lv>, a miniature form of <l> (with a tiny diagonal bend at the baseline and no descender) looks much better. The other option for <r> before other consonants would be a similar mini-<r>, like a dotless italic i. Also keeping in mind @sasasha's advice, I am playing with letter-w...

I've updated the page with examples (here). I think I need a third form of <r> that will flow more smoothly into a following plosive or fricative (e.g. last word <annimirtha>). Also <l> before <f> or <v> looks awkward (e.g. line one word three <e-lf'>).

The script is meant to be written with a brush This intrigued me sufficiently that I went and bought a fudepen (which I’ve been meaning to do for some time anyway), and have been experimenting with this script since then. It’s not that hard to write with a brush, but the result looks nothing like t...

I didn't like my new <n>, and after thinking more, I realised it was the only glyph besides <o> (and <oi>) that has a fully-enclosed space. I might shorten the crossbar so it's only crossing one leg. 'No loops' is a rule of the old calligraphic hand (except for the triangular spaces in all three nas...

@sasasha thank you so much! That is all really helpful! I updated that page ( here ) with a stripped-down script, which looks (I think) pretty cool in its own way and a lot more balanced/cohesive/something. The text is the same hymn-stanza, and the names Leil(i)s / Cairod / Tersas , followed by two ...

Thanks! I went back and forth about how to stack ai / oi -- played with putting the i-dot inside the o, but I didn't like how much it looked like an eye. I've been tweaking the script for many years but it still doesn't feel quite cohesive or well-balanced to me. Might just be that I write slowly so...

That is lovely and you have inspired me to work on Heláin script! I don't know how best to insert the image here, so I've linked to it in my Heláin thread.