Come back to Faerie as we finish up some work on the differences in constructions between the four dialects and prepare to create the koine. Join me at 8 AM CT.
Something I heard from a kid:
“I’m blind at pencils.”
We are back in Faerie in about an hour to continue work on our dialect divergence. We’ll be talking about syntactic constructions. We’re definitely close to the point where I’d like to start the koineization process.
Anonymous asked:
Hello sorry to bother you
Do you know of any resources for derivational affixes? Sometimes conlanging feels like death by a thousand cuts
You know what? I’m not really sure. Maybe I will put this out to the community.
I often come across derivational strategies as I’m browsing Wiktionary translations of words I’m trying to create. Also, if you’re going historical, the World Lexicon of Grammaticalization does have some sources for derivational elements.
One thing that might help when coming up with derivations, particularly where you want lexical sources, is to think of a phrase or a compound that could get smushed together and then one element split off as an affix.
For example, a lot of emotion words in Ndăkaga end in -fakI or -fagI because I took a pattern of X fa “under X”, and then stuck the postposition to the object and added an adjectivizer or nominalizer on top of that. I believe that was inspired by a similar process in Hungarian, but I’d have to dig into Discords to find the suggestion.
And speaking of pronouns, flat-out my favorite part of the LOTR Appendices is when it’s revealed that the Gondorian dialect of the Common Speech differentiates between formal and informal second-person pronouns but the distinction’s been lost in the Hobbit’s dialect, so Pippin’s blithely been using familiar terms of address with the Lord of the City, and thus helps to explain both why the Gondorians are so ready to assume he’s a prince and why Denethor finds him so amusing to have around.
not what i expected from a post that began with “speaking of pronouns,” but an a++ show of the versatility and surprise daily available on tumblr dot com
I talked to @dedalvs and @quothalinguist about a few announcements, including Kopikon II, Jessie’s textbook, and their latest movie project, Superman.
It’s time to get back to Faerie! We’re going to work some more on dialect differences today, with an aim to wrapping up and getting on to the Koine stage. Join me in one hour (8am Central Time)
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ALTi feel strongly about this
I’ve been doing the captions on the Conlangery episode since starting YouTube by running through Whisper and then checking by hand.
There are many ways to get the word “Conlangery” wrong if you’re AI. And of course, no AI transcription will ever be able to handle obscure conlang examples.
In about an hour (8am Central Time), we’re having a special Tongues and Runes. Returning to Ndăkaga, the Voice of the Dragons, to make terms for the eight schools of magic.