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There are more than three adjectives, but not many more. (I don't know how many, the dictionary is not finished yet.) The 'true' adjectives cannot be used predicatively, so my idea is that they are only for things that I feel could not really be derived from other parts of speech. Makes sense, and ...

Are there really only three adjectives in your language? The ones you've listed seem to be concerned with specifying a subset of a set (some, different, certain), so I might expect adjectival strategies for other divvying-up, like 'all but one', 'this one alone', and so on. Is there a motivation for...

Slowly going over it between compile times at my job; good work so far as I can tell. The first thing I felt odd enough to post about was your cardinal numbers with negative digits allowed: that's wild! Does this come from anywhere, or motivated by some quality of your conpeople? It's quite strange....

*handwave*Ocean currents~ Woooo~*hadwave*

Kyahida will burgeon a bit from -6Jr to -6J and -7Jr.

It is a hard group to vote over: I couldn't really single out anyone's work who was comparatively 'lacking' in any real degree, so selecting the 'winners' was more an exercise in personal taste. I had been reading the entries as they were published (a bit of non-trivial time each day), so I can unde...

Because I have to keep digging for it, so I figure others are too (particularly with the vote up). I'll try to keep it updated?

STATUS: Post-Culture Vote Update

It's a very broad style of help you seem to be requesting here, so it's hard to suggest any particular course of action. you might get more help if you come up with a an example (even if you hate the result, a work-in-progress thing). For example, do "make a good enough picture ": I'm not much of a ...

1. Cesɔn 2. Ccuxu 3. Nespek 4. mecongai 5. Nggwoó Some thoughts about my votes: Cesɔn has a good combination of being 'nearby' and well-written, and feels like it can support complexity easily: they'd be great to see all around Lyra. Ccuxu is just kind of a neat concept: a frozen north where stone-a...

Kyahida Ethnic Group Symbiotic Human/Golem Coastal People Golems form center of Human family units, which form clans, which form a loose federation Religion based on ritually building things & ancestor reverence Federated, clan governance Relatively peaceful, maritime ambitions Location Coast, wate...

I basically assumed golems just lack the impulse to place a supernatural being as the source of a phenomenon they don't understand, but just shrug and go 'Does not compute'. I don't think it's necessary to make them atheists, but just that they'll have a predilection to be irreligious/non-practicing...

This language has a really interesting and original syntax. I like the way it develops. Ti sintatimi! I'm glad all this work isn't churning out boring syntax, at least ;) And forgive the mangled proto-timtu Move On Up It occurred to me, looking at the issue of elevating an oblique object in a subcl...

Are people making these 'zoomed in' maps from scratch, or are the source maps for the various continents at higher resolution that I had thought?

The Meek Shall Inherit In what, in my eyes, is the culmination of several days of build-up, we shall attain the lofty goal of elevating an oblique object of a subclause to the grand status of matrix verb argument! I must have better things to do with my life, but such is the ailment of the conlange...

Are the orbital and physical parameters of Telmona similar to Earth? That'll help decide what kind of atmospheric circulation you have going, and thus the climates.

Yeah: it makes me think of 40's-50's era shows, guys with oiled hair and fedoras.

[tongue in cheek]

1) Nouny Things
2) Verby Things
3) Particle Things
4) Adverbs

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Just noting that I'd prefer to keep the material parameters 'vanilla': it's tricky enough to reconcile magic without then pondering a significantly different physical setup.

Complementary Snacks Still on the quest to use passive verbs to 'relativize' oblique and indirect objects of subclauses, today we will investigate complementizing a clause. 'Complementizing' is the process of turning an independent clause into an argument of another clause: this is distinct from re...

Excel (or any other spreadsheet) should really do fine for any typical conlanger needs: when you start to outgrow it, though, dump out a Comma-Separated-Values (.csv) file and import it into a S Q L (or no SQL , if that's your style) database. If you do that, you can (easily most of the time) put it...

I love the "in progress thought process" nature of this thread. It's fun to see the development, and the twists it's taking are interesting. Kudos so far. Thanks for your kind words: means a lot! Passive Aggression Entailed by last post's determination that we'd be using passives in lieu of relativ...

Relative Comfort Well, I really hadn't meant to get into it so soon, but I suppose it is unavoidable: subordinate/dependent clauses. They are easily my favorite thing in syntax to tweak with: there are strategies based off of gaps, relativizing particles & pronouns, passivization schemes, and all o...

zompist wrote:-which we might call the CCCP for now-

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If we aren't adjacent to another culture, should we assume there are sparse pockets of tribal peoples? Or are we assuming a more empty world?

That anyone gets these without consulting google boggles my mind. Very impressive 0_o

Honest To Goodness Prepositional Phrases As I've been writing these posts and coming up with the grammar for Kjáhida, I feel I've ben focusing on the verb-like behaviour of the non-NP elements in our sample sentences. However, since the goal is to create a language based on Killer-P's, we need to m...