Mark, do you plan to update/overhaul any more of your old langs in the near (ie this year) future, like you did with Wede:i? I know your hands are full with Xurnásh and Axunashin, but after seeing what a great job you did with Wede:i, I'd really love to see some of your other langs fleshed out and updated!
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Is it true that you're doing a polylang in the near future?
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Eddy the Great wrote:Is it true that you're doing a polylang in the near future?
What, me or Mark? If the latter, I think Z answered this the last time you asked. Have a look through the old topics, and don't turn yet anothother pointless debate. OK?
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DarkFantasy wrote:I think I remember Zomp saying that he had some conlangs in his conworld that were polysynthetic. I think it was in the Wede:i topic.
Yes, indeed; the relevant comments by Zomp in the Wede:i thread were as follows:
Do you envision giving Cuolese and Jeori each their own seperate pages in the future?
Possibly, but it's not a very high priority. I couldn't really do it anyway till Xurnese and Tzhuro are done. And frankly I don't think they'll be fascinating languages; the interesting part of their grammars are the Wede:i inheritance-- the rest will be Axunashin/Xurnash influence. I'm more interested in the Western languages (which are polysynthetic) and even Uytainese (which looks isolating for now).
So there you have it...one of the few other comments on the Western languages appears in the Proto-Eastern page, which states that Obanzayet's VSO syntax is due in part to Western influence (probably that of the Somoyi-Methelyi).
Please note, BTW, that with the scope of Mark's conlanging, "in the near future" might mean "over the next couple of years..."
The lawn gnomes of Viminia
Diabetics' guide to Verduria
Boy bands of Kebri
From the Salon of Sculpture: Inexi plumbing standards
Uytainese knock-knock jokes
Ghee: A polyunsaturated language
():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons
Helpful hints for writing Almean slashfic
With all that, it's hard to promise revisions of any existing languages. I do hope to write a description of Old Verdurian one day.
"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."
zompist wrote:Helpful hints for writing Almean slashfic
Bonnza.
[size=84]Your words are soon gone and it hurts, I have none
Take a jump from you pretty linguistic tower
The goal of speech, so obnoxious to reach
Only one thing to do, melt your iron flower...[/size]
Am I the only person who realised Mark was joking?
The man of science is perceiving and endowed with vision whereas he who is ignorant and neglectful of this development is blind. The investigating mind is attentive, alive; the mind callous and indifferent is deaf and dead. - 'Abdu'l-Bahá
I'm also looking foward to seeing the Western languages; and given my slowness and all the problems that have attended the writing of the grammar, they'll probably be publsihed before Noyahtukah is.
"On that island lies the flesh and bone of the Great Charging Bear, for as long as the grass grows and water runs," he said. "Where his spirit dwells, no one can say."
The man of science is perceiving and endowed with vision whereas he who is ignorant and neglectful of this development is blind. The investigating mind is attentive, alive; the mind callous and indifferent is deaf and dead. - 'Abdu'l-Bahá
