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The fact of the matter is that Japanese is hard to learn if you have not spent much time in the country, specifically because of what you said, that Japanese has mostly not been used outside of Japan, so it carries a lot of cultural baggage with it. As for your link, though the people there may inde...

Sounds made up. There's a talk sometimes about Japanese people being impenetrably unique or xenophobic (depending on which side you are talking from) but actually, Japanese people are people. They become associates, they become friends, they become family. It's not a uniform and monolithic mass of p...

Sometimes Japanese people speak to me in English, trying to be helpful, but pretty much always my Japanese is better than their English. I once couldn't even understand the guy and he switched back to Japanese. I felt bad.

Just as your boss at work is not someone you must kill in order to leave the area.

Similar for Japanese, except there is no stress aside from pitch, and there is only one way a syllable can be marked, which is having a pitch drop between that syllable and the next.

In the first part of my life I went to a French immersion school and became relatively fluent in French, but it has been on the decline since then. I can still muddle my way through everyday conversations, if the person is patient and has good intuition. The language I have devoted the most time and...

Qəviqnə rīllə təʔammərə tåtvannak čʼəxā? [qɐˈʋeqnə ˈriːlːə təˈʔæmːərə ˈtɒdʋænːæk tʃʼɐˈχɑː] Who else here has kids? http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/hwai.png http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/peen.png http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmas...

Yeah, and also I don't think you need to worry about naturalism in the structure of a conscript so much, since unlike spoken language, it is generally consciously designed, often by only a few or as many as one person, and is far more susceptible to unilateral rules or decrees than is spoken languag...

Or Tocharian:



lska, kṣtsā, śtwa, ddrä, mbu, wñu, mträ, mwtā, lymāṃ

Still, I say go with a logosyllabic script.

It's likely enough that I'm the only one still interested in this, but thank you for fixing it!

The Zeebwiki is malfunctioning.

Thanks, everyone. I am happy with how the font is turning out so far.

http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/uyendur/cursiveprototype.png This sample is handwritten on paper. Making a font of this won't be easy. I'm reviving this three-year-old thread to say that this font is actually happening now that I have the knowledge and resources to do it. http://www.vgfun...

Thanks for the link.

I am posting here just to ask if there has been any progress at all with this project. It was great watching you develop it, but it's been over a year now. I'm wondering what's happened.

This project sure seems to have stalled in 2015. However, when I have a bit of time, I think I will start up a new culture in L-1r. Haven't really decided what species or anything at all really yet, but I'd like to reserve that square anyway.

(Switching to English cos this lang is still recent) Yup. I had a murder mystery party (there had been a murder, and we, the players, had to try to solve the mystery, whilst acomplishing our own goals), which I did appalingly badly in. http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/hoh....

Oto to bahe ila nu ja ti kos etu ilia bane geni. additional thus very.MIR speak NOM.1s.ICS NOM.3s.ACS.DEF PRF similar ~teach language hand COP-DAT.1s.ICS Also, my former sign language teacher and I had a really good talk. [/quote] http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/duool.png...

kka mulas eni zuo xeva mo . I don't like how it looks. xuo matu texi mo Why are there spaces underneath? [g=and[CLAUSE]]xe[/g] iru varu And there are problems. ha xeva See? [g=and[CLAUSE]]xe[/g] zoua xu le zara And it's difficult to write. http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/...

[g=DEM.PROX] http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/pnih.png http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/ork.png Pñork[/g] [g=EMPH] http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/aak.png aa[/g] [g=take] http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmasw...

Also, I admit the French immersion argument is not really relevant, because there is really no conceivable reason for a region that speaks English as a vast majority language to switch to any other language.

Frankly, I really have trouble imagining Japan switching from Japanese to English in even the remotely near future. Sure, there are many people studying English, but with the quality of English-language education in general combined with the practical differences between the two languages, and of th...

Imperative? That's bizarre. I can't figure out any possible way to use it as an imperative.

Based on Viktor's post, I assumed "quotative" meant a complementizer that marks the actual content of a verb of speech/writing/thought/etc.