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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!

Ghost

Is it true that you're doing a polylang in the near future?

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?

Qhost

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.

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.

The Western langs IIRC

Jaaaaaa wrote:The Western langs IIRC

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..."

p@,
Glenn

Upcoming projects:

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.

The Western languages are polysynthetic.

zompist wrote:Ghee: A polyunsaturated language

Cute.

zompist wrote:():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons

I like it!

p@,
Glenn

I can't wait to see the western languages.

zompist wrote:The lawn gnomes of Viminia

That should be...interesting.

Boy bands of Kebri

I think that's past the point of interesting

():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons

I can't wait for that. That should be the official alphabet of #almea.

zompist wrote:():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons

You know, that actually strikes me as quite a good idea.

zompist wrote:Helpful hints for writing Almean slashfic

Bonnza.

Am I the only person who realised Mark was joking?

No.

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.

Rory wrote:Am I the only person who realised Mark was joking?

In a word, no.

Rory wrote:Am I the only person who realised Mark was joking?

Looks like DF was the only person who didn't, though even that's questionable. Sorry, Rory, you're not special.

No! I need Elkaril emoticons!

():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons

I think you should seriously consider doing this. I want to make an Elkaril sig!

Edit: Hey, I'm a Gent now! Post 260.

con quesa wrote:

():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons

I think you should seriously consider doing this. I want to make an Elkaril sig!

Edit: Hey, I'm a Gent now! Post 260.

Well, that's the sort of thing that I don't mind someone else doing (much like Philip's inflection utilities.

I would like somebody to do it If nobody else wants to, I wouldn't mind.

DarkFantasy wrote:I would like somebody to do it If nobody else wants to, I wouldn't mind.

I'm actually working on it right now, and making good progress!

sweet! Be sure to tell us when you get it up; it could be the official script of #almea!

DarkFantasy wrote:sweet! Be sure to tell us when you get it up; it could be the official script of #almea!

Wouldn't you want to actually be able to use the official script?

Shall I work on the boy bands of Kebri?

No?

Oh.