YEAH Sound Change

[bloodyrosemccoy]

The 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.

Comments

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

This fellow conlanger begs to differ; boring is in the eye of the beholder. :D

This is totally the kind of stuff that gets me excited, too. But yes, my husband thinks I'm boring as hell, sometimes. XD

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

But... I'm interested! I want to hear more! (Even if my own conlanging did rather shamefully ignore phonetics whenever possible, to focus on beautiful pure letter-based representations of the language.)

[wren-chan.livejournal.com]

Srs, plz elaborate! Though I may have to ask you to go back and explain terms a lot.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm interested.

[glaikery.livejournal.com]

AWESOME. (Seriously)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And that's why "Language!" didn't make it into the cut of Powers That Could Summon Captain Planet. ;-)

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

I don't know the meanings of some of the terms you're using, but they just make me even more interested in conlanginginging!

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

Ah, but linguistic drift is awesome. It's like many languages for the price of one (plus time, one of the three ingredients of geology).

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

How nerdy that I get most of that sentence but one word...

[chairman-wow.livejournal.com]

Well it sounds pretty cool to me! :D

[jennyanydots21.livejournal.com]

I somehow keep reading that as "Proto-Giraffe". Which would be a whole nother kettle of linguistics.