In the rest of this article, the following notation is used: * C refers to a standard consonant. * V refers to a standard vowel. * Cc refers to a geminated/long consonant. * Vv refers to a long vowel. Consonants Labial Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal _ m ⟨m⟩...
I would normally publish this on my blog, however, I thought that LessWrong people might be interested in this topic. This sequence is about my experience creating a logical language, Sekko (still a work-in-progress). What's a logical language? Languages can be divided into two categories: natural languages, which arise...naturally, and...
This is a crosspost from my site: It's Good Enough -- A Party Game. > "One hundred and forty-three thousand, two hundred and twenty steps. > > It was doable." -- "Worm, Interlude 29" by Wildbow I had this idea after a friend and I talked about games and competitiveness....
The Google Drive link containing information about the organizations is broken.
I agree, although GIF is rather inefficient, and there are forums that forbid the posting of GIFs in favor of better formats like WEBM. I support the addition of WEBM support to LW.
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.
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 you've put down previously. You "fix" some points, and the rest of the design falls into place. In... (read more)
In the rest of this article, the following notation is used:
C refers to a standard consonant.V refers to a standard vowel.Cc refers to a geminated/long consonant.Vv refers to a long vowel.| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | _ m ⟨m⟩ | _ n ⟨n⟩ | _ (ɲ) | _ ŋ ⟨q⟩ | ||
| Plosive | p b ⟨p b⟩ | t d ⟨t d⟩ | k g ⟨k g⟩ | ʔ _ ⟨'⟩ | ||
| Affricate | (tʃ dʒ) | |||||
| Fricative | s z ⟨s z⟩ | (ʃ ʒ) | h _ ⟨h⟩ | |||
| Approximant | _ (w) | _ l ⟨l⟩ | _ (j) | |||
| Tap | _ ɾ ⟨r⟩ | |||||
| Trill | _ r ⟨rr⟩ |
... (read 1258 more words →)Hot take: The "whatever rhotic" is highly problematic and should not be used. It is so awful and I cannot believe people still permit it. Don't you realize how many rhotics there are? This is why I enforce rhotics in Sekko to only be the alveolar tap and
I would normally publish this on my blog, however, I thought that LessWrong people might be interested in this topic. This sequence is about my experience creating a logical language, Sekko (still a work-in-progress).
Languages can be divided into two categories: natural languages, which arise...naturally, and constructed langugages, which are designed. Of constructed languages, there are two categories: artlangs, which are designed as works of art or as supplements to a world (think Quenya or Klingon), or engelangs (engineered languages), which are designed to fulfill a specific purpose.
Loglangs (logical languages) are a subset of engelangs. Not all engelangs are loglangs -- Toki Pona is a non-loglang engelang.
Despite the name, what... (read 923 more words →)
This is a crosspost from my site: It's Good Enough -- A Party Game.
"One hundred and forty-three thousand, two hundred and twenty steps.
It was doable." -- "Worm, Interlude 29" by Wildbow
I had this idea after a friend and I talked about games and competitiveness. The objective of the game is to be the most average person at being average.
The game requires at least three players.
Each player presents an integer from 0 to 100.[1]
All players must present their number at the same time.[2]
The game lasts for at least three rounds. The number of rounds to be played is set before the game starts.[3]
The player who presents a number that is the median of... (read 1146 more words →)
It didn't work when I tried it again when I received your message, but I tried it again now and it's working.