YEAH Sound Change
Oct. 5th, 2012 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyThe problem with having a phenomenally boring hobby is that you can't really explain how darn much fun you're having to anyone. "Dude! I just changed a language from the OGYAFE into two daughter languages with the power of SOUND CHANGE! Now I'm going to work on semantic shift!" Yeah, nobody cares.
So, uh, just take my word for it: I am having a pretty good time conlanging over here. That's all you need to know.
So, uh, just take my word for it: I am having a pretty good time conlanging over here. That's all you need to know.
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Date: 2012-10-05 10:58 am (UTC)This is totally the kind of stuff that gets me excited, too. But yes, my husband thinks I'm boring as hell, sometimes. XD
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Date: 2012-10-06 07:53 am (UTC)Then I ran all these forms through two differet sound change templates and got two totally different languages. WOO GOOD TIMES.
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Date: 2012-10-06 02:12 pm (UTC)...you're really making me want to go restart my old conlang with the elegant (in my opinion!) verb affixes that could be slapped onto nouns to give them copula-esque weight.
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Date: 2012-10-07 02:48 am (UTC)...god, I wish I hadn't lost my notes. I had way too much fun with that language, and wrote quite bad poetry within it. The phonology was dreadful--all Japanese-plus-Latin with a very restrictive CVC syllable setup and no nod to euphony beyond my own preferences--and the whole thing never quite gelled because I couldn't figure out how to handle relative clauses without just copying Latin, but by god, I liked my verbs.
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:17 am (UTC)I'm the same way--some of my early languages have really great stuff along with some totally embarrassing bits (including awful teenage poetry set to my favorite songs). My own ear for euphony is rather eclectic, too--and I'm keeping that in the sprite language I'm overhauling. (It also doesn't help that part of my aesthetic sense comes from my synesthesia, which isn't something most people can really benefit from, but by god I like it.)
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Date: 2012-10-07 02:54 pm (UTC)Mm. Maybe I should actually noodle around with that some more again. I sort of fell out of conlanging because I flung myself into the community and then found it was a standard Internet Community with the usual issues, but I could do it just for my own pleasure now.
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Date: 2012-10-07 02:26 am (UTC)I'm going to try to expand on this a little, but given my track record with attempts like this, I can make no promises. :p
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:12 am (UTC)(Did I ever send you the manuscript, by the way? I can't remember.)
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