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There is an IMMENSE learning curve for IPA. Or you could, you know, keep a table open as a reference. You won't learn if you don't use it, and this isn't a school exam, so you are allowed to look things up. Yes but a table isn't going to tell me what the sounds are that the symbols stand for. I've ...

YourFace wrote:

YourFace wrote: Next phrase: My hips are moving on their own.

is haap een av mee magen geen beja izhalpen.

Next: I think, therefore I am.

mi mitos, et mi os-van. Literally: my mind acts/moves and I act/move in life

Next: We weave our lives a tapestry, each choice a different colour.

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MiscellaneousJax wrote:Lastly, what qualifies a sound as strange?

I think sounds only attested in a single language, like Tlingit's /χʼʷ/, can justifiably be called strange. That hasn't prevented me from using it in a conlang, however...

Whatever sounds strange To Me.

I am constantly amazed how when I ask certain questions about developing my language most responders pick on areas I am not interested in changing or have already responded to. 1.There is an IMMENSE learning curve for IPA. I will get around to it someday but right now i am more interested in the cre...

I am using something a bit similar I call a gate system to help me create words, however I like the way this works. :-D How did this evolve? For example did you start with say a few dozen words and draw those grids off of them or (?) ? Also what is your word patterns like? Are they cvc, cvccvc etc. ?

1. Causation not required for sentence structure (you don't need a laundry list of how what is being talked about happened or all the possible consequences of the event or information being shared. 2. No strange(?)/impossible to pronounce sounds. 3.a 500 word lexicon including 200 nouns 150 verbs an...

For those of you into ciphers the original Aeghilian will be getting a facelift as a new kind of code to make sentences look like a paragraph of nonsense. I haven't finalized the decimal letter filter yet but here is a sample of the current cipher. Happiness is a warm puppy becomes: I o, is it s a s...

So having returned to this board after about a years absence here is a report on changes: 1. causation not required for sentence structure (you don't need a laundry list of how what is being talked about happened or all the possible consequences of the event or information being shared. 2. no strang...

Please forgive my ignorance of IPA in the following: Firstly, i contructed a simplified alphabet for english as follows (letters in parens are ones that fall under the aphabet entry (ones replaces or used instead of it)) A E G(cjkq) H I(y) L M N O R S(zc) T(d) V(bfp) The sound of x can be respelled ...

actually this wasnt an attempt to create spelling reform for english. I used English to do the tinkering to arrive at this set of letters. in the language i'm working on the alphabet has a different list of letters for the sounds i wanted to express in a straightforward way for english readers...als...

where on the web did u learn enuff to get your conlangs advanced enuff to write complete papragraphs/stories?

A E G H I L M N O R S T V I used this for a while to transcribe english to see how flexible it could be. An Example: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog ve goaig vroan vogs gumved over ve lasi tog Admittidly, it makes sight reading more difficult...but the idea was to "boil down" the numbe...

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next: hill, small mountain

gotra == outcroping of harshness