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Oh, you're talking about the → and ← gestures. These are just supposed to be "space" and "backspace". My thinking was that since the space is used more often than backspace, and the middle finger is stronger than the ring finger, it makes sense for the middle finger to be → (space) and the ring fing...

Hurry and get it to market before someone on Apple finds this page and patents it and sues everyone else!! Heh, I'd be flattered. :) So how is space entered? Space is entered with the middle finger, or "→" symbol. (This is done because the corresponding dot code would be too hard to distinguish fro...

Edit: just trying it for myself and the five finger gesture feels more natural as a space. dunno what you would do for capitals, perhaps involve the other hand. Interesting. Did you find some way of trying it out on your computer? I couldn't figure out a way to get my keyboard to distinguish 5 simu...

Ah, I see the confusion. I didn't mean to suggest that the input buttons themselves would be laid out in the hexagonal pattern; only the output dots. I'd imagine that the buttons would be mounted around the perimeter of the phone like a handle or grip, or into the tips of a glove's fingers for a nic...

Ever received a text message while driving, biking, in a boring class, etc., and thought to yourself, "I wish I could read this and reply without looking at my phone"? There are 31 combinations of buttons I could press with the five fingers on one hand; in my ideal world, I would be able to use this...

A minor nitpick, variation in the length of the day doesn't happen due to the orbit being elliptical (neither do seasons on earth). It is the tilt of the axis that causes these effects. and no matter how tilted the axis, the length of day+night is always fixed by the conservation of angular momentu...

I find this topic rather interesting, since there are so many questions to ask and so much potential for variation. And yet, here on Earth, such is the predominance of the Gregorian Calendar and the 24-60-60 timekeeping system that many people don't even realize how arbitrary the whole thing is. So,...

之 北 風 和 之 日 是了 非思且 哪 是們了 之 強更， 何時 個 旅者 來了 個長 裹了 內 個 暖 氅。 The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped in a warm cloak. 他們 肯了 那 之 一 誰 甲 下譲了 內 做且 之 旅者 把 他的 氅 離 應了 乃 共星了 強更 比 之 別。 They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the travele...

A few proposals: Sentence-final kepau occurs so often that it should probably be ignored, sort of like Japanese "ne~~~", but in the middle of a sentence, it could serve to demarcate clauses. Thus, the phrase Kepau ikepau is an idiom meaning roughly "So be it" (literally, "When, then", a phrase expre...

Whenever the text seemed to be getting to the right length, someone would convert it to binary or something

I created a branch-off thread for the conlanging. You're more than welcome to continue modifying the text here, or to start with a new original text.

The Chinese Whispers thread has produced an output: Kepau ileun yna ovøyna nrofuat uyøa srularrau yønrylarrau ruluyønrau rulut kepava oyønru yønrovøyna nrofu tsaiena kepau. Akiapa olarralarralovøyn nrof votsa is yøat isakepau. Tsiena itsin uyøna itsayenøyva yevein nrofu vuvøyna nrofy siena fok ikepa...

Put periods after words with clitics, but avoid creating one-word sentences. Spelling reform: th → þ kh → x And sound change next to "i": ti → si þi → ti xki → çc ki → c xi → ç Iþe-a ąoþeh soþaaxe ąeþtucte sic aae ote ąo neþtuc ajnę-ni. Tucoo tonęsewaþaa atasetęc-six atasshosixu-tei-o. Atuçctukse þę...

EDIT: Curses, ninja'd again! Concatenate all the numbers, and convert to base 27 (0=space, 1=a, etc.) Again, let's try and move this towards something pronounceable, so we can start with the conlanging! cyzahsollohhlwlovkgqhmuuicpoifcl fkybzb rcqp zlmumnzajxybpsfzstpszrugqwsekbv bozrmkliwhpugcfmdxie...

eu → u; all other "u"s deleted. Change final "g" to "ng". ae → æ ličest hæšagežiak bakety sæšang šeeže stľic žplič ličest stažp žiaklič htyæšang hæšagebak lšalas spi ľics sest ľicæšang ličest ličľic siest spæšang s speľak bas hucaši šažng spažng lša spuc lša ľicu huašaši šušeæsi spi šcacs stežiak sp...

I say we should start moving in the direction of meaningful-looking text, so we can begin with the retrofitting part. Remove dashes, delete every other space. tusečilu kaiyzegaxhea jhekabe ghaxheausa iiyzeiixu ciqtuse čilupyza tusečilu pyzatuse čilukaiyze gaxheajhe kabeghaxhea usalaxlu pxuciq tuseus...

Delete every other character, and then normalize punctuation, spacing, and capitalization. U ujtalitalb e awuwfe euralswfetalesaltwferale, talitalawfesawfeuu tal aj j asaltalawfeujaswfeitaluva; vv wjaalral, swfewfeuaal, e ssaaluvtwfeuwfeaaletaluau swsu i, i. Rwfewfejw, e wfe ssuuvrwfeiralawfeuwfeita...

Replace L's with punctuation according to: l → space ll → comma lll → semicolon llll or longer → period Also, capitalized sentences and added a period at the end. Cheu, euijxtwhijtwhbxthsteubthstxuweurwhvh xeuuwrwhs whxtwheuswhtxwhchrwheuchx, twhijtwhxrwhbthstchxrwheueu, xtwhbthstxij, ij, vxh swhtwh...

Change character encoding to "Western (ISO-8859-1)". aÊ–Ê•É‚aa n auʕʢɁaÊ–Ê•nɁʡʢʡɂaÊ–Ê•Ê¢an n nɁzʔʢ zʔɁaʡʔɂaÊ–Ê•nɁʡʔn lʔɂaʢɂaʢɂaÊ¡nɁʇʔɁaÊ–Ê•n aÊ¡nɁaÉ‚É‚aÊ–Ê•nɁʖʕnɁɁaʖʕʢʖʕɁasÊ” nɁɂaÊ–Ê•uÊ•aaÊ¢aan n aaaÉ‚É‚aÊ–Ê•É‚aʢɂanɁʇʔʖʕn zÊ”n zÊ”n nɁɂa nɁlɾ nɁÉ...

Take each sequence of digits and square it. U1v16p t97969s 163216 9u v9ut0 16v0 t09s t9k0u s16v9 s9ž100 t9ðu v9ut1 t9p16v9 v9u, v0u t v961v3 m09u 0 n009m p16v1089ð v9k9k9 v961v9 v9ð t961m p9ð09 z1. V9uz9 v9 t009 9 v9ðuu v9p16 v9u p9uh9s t108900 ž9ž09 w961 n9ð0 z961v3 vuð v961v3 m09ðuv z01s t9ž9m p9ð...

If a word has more than three vowels, break it off after the 3rd, 6th, 9th, etc. vowel. uivaɂ xeies aeva exe vexetev avev xeves tekevu save serziev texu vexeti xeɂave vexe, vevu x veive mevexe ev nevevem ɂaveex vekeke veive vex xeeem ɂexeve zi. vexeze ve xeveve e vexuu veɂa vexe ɂexehes xeeev rzerze...

Insert "e" after the first letter of any word that lacks vowels (including Y). Gurab Equjv Aqna qeq refh Ajr erqv fchgvatj vpujn feg refg ebatrej, rang e niryretn zrny batje nccrqvanj ne ezty benxg. Relnt errqq negg rba rej besv emqmh pprrqrqva zen xvatq rge niryregn xruv fpy benxbs sef bhyqor peb a...

Hello ZBB! It's been ages since I last posted here; the experience is not unlike visiting the park where one used to play as a child... But in a spurt of nostalgia I thought I'd try and re-enact a now lost thread that proved a fruitful source of conlang ideas. Here's how it works: We start with an O...

The system used in my language is rather artificial but I don't claim it to be otherwise. The terms are built off of these basic elements: ma : female pa : male vue : parent zo : sibling kae : child dau : spouse These elements can be strung together right-branchingly to produce terms for more comple...

Lauzheu is accusative and dechticaetiative , for the most part. The situation is muddled by the fact that nouns are not declined at all; what you may have as case I applied to word order, which in my language is very strict. Some examples will help. Most verbs that can take three arguments (such as ...