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Welcome everyone who came here from the April fool's post. I post sporadically and have limited linguistic knowledge. I'm interested in conlangs from a creative standpoint and try to give little suggestions that might spark an idea or motivation. Any well-informed posts you see were written by former admins, including said April Fool's Day post. They're all gone now and it's just me.

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Prompt: a language where all sentences could be both interpreted at base meaning or be passive aggressive with no way to tell.

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#conlang #prompt #worldbuilding #conlang prompt #submission #My mother's a conlanger now? #good for her

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Make a protolang. Try and evolve a language with as few or no stops as possible from said protolang. Now take that same base protolang, idk isolate it or something, and evolve a language with as few or no fricatives as possible. Now de-isolate the two and watch the confusion commence

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A language with ejectives and non-vowel syllable nuclei allowed that, in universe, has become very popular with beatboxers

"P'nts'p'ta kvp'ntsi'i" or something like that

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find the most common value of every feature documented in the World Atlas of Language Structures and make a conlang with as many of those features as possible without contradiction, thus creating what is statistically speaking, the average language.

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My aim in sharing this video and with my comments was to help conlangers who speak English as their only or dominant language - ie the majority of my followers - to see that the way English does things should not be viewed as the default and understand that there are features in other languages that may make more sense for the fictional word from which their language comes. Of course, people should take this view regardless of what your dominant language is. If you are only familiar with one language and how it works, this can stifle your creativity as a conlanger.

For those of you who speak only English, it can be helpful to be aware that the way English does things is not only simply one way among many, but also somewhat unusual when compared to other languages.

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So after reading through the replies I ran the concept by my Math-teacher brother and he said "that would be the worst system ever". 🤣

Numbers are only one syllable each, no exceptions.

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To clarify, yes, all numbers, not just your base numbers. 100. 5000. 356,6217. And there's a functional reason for this: to assist in counting time accurately.

Numbers are only one syllable each, no exceptions.

#I know it's chaotic #that's part of the fun

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Numbers are only one syllable each, no exceptions.

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What is your interpretation of "basing a conlang on a natural langauge"? I always interpreted it as using similar or identical phonemes, using some of the same grammar rules and/or maybe emulating the etymology of how it evolved a bit. I would still expect to create a distinct unique language just using the original language as a jumping-off point. But I've noticed that some people make conlangs that are identifiably similar to the point where if you speak that language you could probably understand a good chunk of the conlang without having to learn it. What's your approach?

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What is your interpretation of "basing a conlang on a natural langauge"? I always interpreted it as using similar or identical phonemes, using some of the same grammar rules and/or maybe emulating the etymology of how it evolved a bit. I would still expect to create a distinct unique language just using the original language as a jumping-off point. But I've noticed that some people make conlangs that are identifiably similar to the point where if you speak that language you could probably understand a good chink of the conlang without having to learn it. What's your approach?

#fill #it would be interesting to combine the two languages I'm trying to learn #one is a romance language and one is southern semitic #hmmm

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What is your interpretation of "basing a conlang on a natural langauge"? I always interpreted it as using similar or identical phonemes, using some of the same grammar rules and/or maybe emulating the etymology of how it evolved a bit. I would still expect to create a distinct unique language just using the original language as a jumping-off point. But I've noticed that some people make conlangs that are identifiably similar to the point where if you speak that language you could probably understand a good chunk of the conlang without having to learn it. What's your approach?

#fill

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What is your interpretation of "basing a conlang on a natural langauge"? I always interpreted it as using similar or identical phonemes, using some of the same grammar rules and/or maybe emulating the etymology of how it evolved a bit. I would still expect to create a distinct unique language just using the original language as a jumping-off point. But I've noticed that some people make conlangs that are identifiably similar to the point where if you speak that language you could probably understand a good chink of the conlang without having to learn it. What's your approach?

#fill

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What is your interpretation of "basing a conlang on a natural langauge"? I always interpreted it as using similar or identical phonemes, using some of the same grammar rules and/or maybe emulating the etymology of how it evolved a bit. I would still expect to create a distinct unique language just using the original language as a jumping-off point. But I've noticed that some people make conlangs that are identifiably similar to the point where if you speak that language you could probably understand a good chunk of the conlang without having to learn it. What's your approach?

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Annual "welcome to the blog" to the people who found it because of that old April Fools Day joke. Warning: It is not usually that funny here.

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Prompt: a conlang that uses as few stop sounds (p, b, t, k, g, etc) as possible to make it as continuous a flow of air and sound as possible.

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Prompt: a conlang that uses as few stop sounds (p, b, t, k, g, etc) as possible to make it as continuous a flow of air and sound as possible.

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