I made this EXACT point on conlang Reddit one time. Words without culture are sterile and fake. It's one reason why I haven't done much work with words yet: I still need to flesh out my cultures. Languages are cultural artefacts and so they will reflect the culture. Just deciding that "blah" means "so and so" is bad conlanging and leads to shallow, derivative, soulless work.
As a person from New South Wales, was really happy and surprised to see it pop up here haha. Altho I don't know how I feel about new new south Wales being closer to the equator, 35+° Summers are already enough
It's got to do with the fact that the verb has a volitional~nonvolitional paradigm, which manifests in the root either having a long vowel or a short vowel in it, which in this case is /a:/ and a schwa, respectively. The nonvolitional form of a root is used when making an animate patient noun. Hopefully this answers your question!
Wonderful! A very common way of having derivation of those types is to use a headless relative clause (I.e., the word _hunting_ , as in the adjective “the hunting man” is used to mean _hunter_ instead of a separate derivation (which is pretty English-y IMO). I wonder if the derivations in your conlang are participles as well, but maybe have lost their original meaning and become nonproductive derivation?
1st word gogat n. a type if sausage made from fish go-gat n. a type if sausage made from fish go-gat n. food made ftom fish 2nd word got n. seasoning got n. seasoned food got n. seasoned fish go n. seasoned fish go n. salted fish go n. salt water fish go n. fish
I’m struggling to understand what you meant, and your description of your earlier belief that words could be coined “willy-nilly.” Do you indeed mean that you believed that you could coin words whether you wanted to coin them or not? I have trouble understanding what such a belief would be. Please clarify.
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I made this EXACT point on conlang Reddit one time. Words without culture are sterile and fake. It's one reason why I haven't done much work with words yet: I still need to flesh out my cultures. Languages are cultural artefacts and so they will reflect the culture. Just deciding that "blah" means "so and so" is bad conlanging and leads to shallow, derivative, soulless work.
As a person from New South Wales, was really happy and surprised to see it pop up here haha. Altho I don't know how I feel about new new south Wales being closer to the equator, 35+° Summers are already enough
another great video Lichen, thank you!
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So Robert is my father's brother huh... there is always someone idk in my family
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Very good. This is what I needed to make my conlang.
I literally just recently had to write an essay detailing how evil of a character Iago haha
Funny and interesting: great work!
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Iago is also the name of a parrot voiced by the late Gilbert Gottfried in Disney's Aladdin(1992).
Great video! I was just wondering how and why the vowel changes in "kava" for the patient form in you proto-lang?
It's got to do with the fact that the verb has a volitional~nonvolitional paradigm, which manifests in the root either having a long vowel or a short vowel in it, which in this case is /a:/ and a schwa, respectively. The nonvolitional form of a root is used when making an animate patient noun. Hopefully this answers your question!
Wonderful! A very common way of having derivation of those types is to use a headless relative clause (I.e., the word _hunting_ , as in the adjective “the hunting man” is used to mean _hunter_ instead of a separate derivation (which is pretty English-y IMO). I wonder if the derivations in your conlang are participles as well, but maybe have lost their original meaning and become nonproductive derivation?
I wonder if these words are present in Bjark’ümii, or are just examples.
1st word
gogat n. a type if sausage made from fish
go-gat n. a type if sausage made from fish
go-gat n. food made ftom fish
2nd word
got n. seasoning
got n. seasoned food
got n. seasoned fish
go n. seasoned fish
go n. salted fish
go n. salt water fish
go n. fish
Very good.
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the fire in the background is cool but distracting at times
I’m struggling to understand what you meant, and your description of your earlier belief that words could be coined “willy-nilly.” Do you indeed mean that you believed that you could coin words whether you wanted to coin them or not? I have trouble understanding what such a belief would be. Please clarify.
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