#That was when the gougar meme was at its height too so we were going back and forth

[bonefall]

how do you make new words in your conlang? like, is there any specific process you use to make up a good sounding word orrr

I try to really think about the object, and how it "feels" to Clan cats. If something is soft, I use soft sounds, if something is dangerous, I use growling sounds.

For animals, it's almost always a feline-ized onomatopoeia. For example, the sound of a wood pigeon,

Hoo-HOO-hoo(hoohoo) became "hoowoohoo" in Clanmew. They would call this animal by the sound it makes, because they are hunters. That's how they know one is in the area.

For plants, I consider its use, where it grows, any sounds it would make as the wind brushes it. There are two kinds of heather they would experience, so I have very different names for them.

Common Heather is tall, shrubby, used in construction and is fire resistant. So that one is "ssinb".

Bell Heather is fragrant, an attractor of bees and pollinators, and softer. So that one is "wish".

#We have almost 300 words so far btw #And a helpful document for practical grammar coming up #Also when I was in England the wood pigeons gave me echolalia #And I just hopped in the shower and couldn't stop cooing like one because I thought about it again so #I guess it never really left LMAO #I appreciate my partner also being autistic so badly I cannot imagine what it would be like to date someone who doesn't hoohoo back #That was when the gougar meme was at its height too so we were going back and forth #Mebbeitwasagougar hooHOOhoo.hoohoo. #Clanmew