There is also r/TheMotte, which formed from a schism in r/slatestarcodex. It mostly discusses culture war issues. The reason they split is that Scott was getting concerned that culture war discussion in his subreddit would attract the Eye of Sauron, which is why he asked people to make a new subreddit to discuss culture war (and also made it such that culture war discussion was now prohibited in r/slatestarcodex). Recently, however, the Reddit admins have been making moves to potentially ban the subreddit, so they are thinking about moving elsewhere.
Most of their content is centered on the Culture War Roundup thread, which refreshes weekly. Several posts are made per day.
Your links are broken and lead me to an "onboarding" page. The links when I use the original page on Blogger do, however.
If you however put effort into thinking through the primitives of your language, you can actually easily make words that are understood without having to be learned specifically.
I highly doubt this is true or possible in any meaningful degree. There have already been several conlangs that try this -- Lojban is one with its compounding system, another is Toki Pona. While it's definitely possible to have compounds whose meaning is related to their components, each context a specific component is going to have to be interpreted in its own special way. Again, because of context. You're going to have to learn something explicitly regardless.
English is the current "language Z" currently, but I agree that the language Z could be better. Are you planning on designing an IAL? I only do loglangs, so I can't help (or help to a meaningful degree), but I'm interested in reading your plans if you do have plans.
Hm, you're right about the apostrophe. Toaq and Eberban use the apostrophe for the glottal stop. Lojban uses the period. What other glyph do you suggest? x? Of the letters in the English alphabet, the following are not used by Sekko: j f v w x.
In truth, the phonology is unimportant for making a loglang. For making an artlang or an auxlang (auxillary language), phonology is very important -- but not for loglangs. It's more of an aesthetic choice. Also, I'm not very good at phonology. I used to have a loglang partner who co-created the language with me, but she left early on because of mental health issues.
Conlang making is weird because it's less "design" and more like...feeling what feels right. There are certain things that seem correct and certain things that feel wrong based on which elements... (read more)
In English, it's not possible to construct easily a word that refers to "someone who has the same teacher as me" or "someone who reads the same blog as me".
I don't see how it's useful to make words (i.e. separate lexemes) for these concepts, when they're better expressed as phrases. The relationship of "parent-child-sibling" (in the genetic sense) is more fundamental than "employee-boss" because the former is immutable. You cannot lose your genetic relation, whereas you can separate from your boss. I also think it's good that "coworker" doesn't imply ha... (read more)
Anaphora is super complicated, and I've thought long and hard about how to express them. Each loglang has its own ways of dealing with anaphors. Yes, you are correct that Lojban anaphora is poorly designed. There's the ko'V series, the vo'V series, goi, the letteral series...it's really bad.
Most people use a variant of the ko'V series. How it works is that you bind a variable to ko'a (or the others in the series), and then when you repeat "ko'a", it recalls the bound variable. The extremely big issue with this is that it requires forethought. It's fine whe... (read more)
You're right! I totally forgot to talk about monoparsing. I really shouldn't have missed that.
I don't like the design choices that Lojban and Toaq made. The latter much less so, but there are still aspects I dislike. I wanted to see if I could, if not do better, at least go in a different direction. It's why I use Livagian or Eberbanian style grammar with no "main verb", and use agglutinative morphology rather than analytic.
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I thought very much about having a simple high-low tone accent system like Japanese or Ancient Greek. It would make SSM very, very easy and simple, given that I can just make word beginnings take the high tone and continuing syllables take the low tone (or the reverse). However, I'm unduly biased against tonemes, so I didn't include them. Toaq is a loglang with a seven tone system, if you're into tonemes.
Stress will not. I already have phonemic vowel length and consonant length. The only remaining differences possible are tone (which is pitch accent), and volume. I don't want to have volemes (do those even exist?).
Yes, I do intend it to be as expressive as natlangs. It will be very difficult, but I want to try.
I'm planning on Sekko vocabulary to be fully a-priori. I actually haven't made many word forms aside from those in example sentences. I'm considering using a Lojban style word-blending system to derive words, except that I would only select languages that have phonemic vowel and consonant length distinctions, like Finnish, Japanese, and Classical Latin.
Update: I'll still be going, but I forgot to take care of an errand. I'll likely be late on the order of 30min. Please do not wait for me.
I'm confirming that I'm coming. I might talk about the loglang I've been developing for about three months now.
Hello, I'm interested in meeting. I've been reading LW (and adjacent stuff) for a while now, but I mostly lurk.
Possible typo: "Being smart causes work-inhibiting disability." given that the chart you then show says the opposite.
I'm the opposite. My first two languages are VSO, so VSO ordering (function first, then arguments) comes naturally to me. Some languages are SOV -- Japanese is the most prominent example. Don't think I know of any proglangs with that form of syntax, though.