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    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

Hello everyone! I have updated my proposal for LTHL's grammar, and I even added explanations for my changes! Check it out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VSFHWUfeDTzYYQOTsHIXuezLBr_FKJWcm91nQxBZ4...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 09-23-2024, 02:41 AM
    Thread: Angel Hair rewrite proposal
Post: RE: Angel Hair rewrite proposal

Andrew P. Wrote: (09-21-2024, 11:24 AM) -- Giving this a very gentle bump, as I'm a big fan of the FSM article proposal and am interested to see where this goes :) -- Daww, thank you! I appreciate ...
Zanly Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 38 545 09-22-2024, 12:41 PM
    Thread: Minor system tweaks that don't require their own thread
Post: RE: Minor system tweaks that don't require their o...

The following was copy-pasted from Discord (https://discord.com/channels/313774601677307914/462271950182678538/1282104974691799041). Apologies for the improper punctuation and capitalization. yo, i n...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 461 7,044 09-08-2024, 08:28 AM
    Thread: Proposal for a story honoring my passed-away friend and romantic interest
Post: RE: Proposal for a story honoring my passed-away f...

Hey y'all, it's been a hot second since I've posted in this thread, but I wanted to ask: would it be okay if I had two versions of MSaNS, one for regular OA readers, and one for Lyric's friends and fa...
Zanly Creative Writing 10 186 08-27-2024, 12:20 PM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

Quote: -- But then we can have verby nouns and nouny sentences where the nouns take on most of the morphology, sure... verbs tend to be more morphology-heavy than nouns for humans (though certainly...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 08-26-2024, 02:47 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

Quote: -- Well, and I would like to do something funky with morphosyntactic alignment, but nothing particular's coming to mind yet. I just think of things like Elkarîl or Neanderthalese that did fee...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 08-26-2024, 01:05 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

Hey y'all! I decided to go right ahead and just straight up start making my own grammar proposal for Literary To'ul'ho'lo'ss, because I figured that a concrete starting point will help us move things ...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 08-25-2024, 09:20 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

Here's the idea I've got so far for implementing FractalComputer's idea: Free word order (probably with marking to help distinguish the order, of course), but the position of each word/root in a se...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 07-28-2024, 02:40 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

tasp Wrote: (07-23-2024, 11:51 AM) -- tasp Wrote: (07-19-2024, 04:10 PM) -- EDIT: Actually, I'm not so sure now. I think FractalComputer's idea might be a good fit for THL, after all; it's not necis...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 07-27-2024, 11:36 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

tasp Wrote: (07-19-2024, 04:10 PM) -- Not gonna lie-- I'm very tempted to start generating roots and damn the torpedoes. You know what would be cool and un-earthly? A ternary [semitic-root style](ht...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 07-23-2024, 06:07 AM
    Thread: Technohope - Another tribute idea for a mental health rehab place
Post: Technohope - Another tribute idea for a mental hea...

As usual, I'm juggling many different art project ideas that are probably a little too ambitious, hahaha. This time, it's my current refinement of an idea I've been trying to get working in OA for a w...
Zanly Creative Writing 2 36 07-09-2024, 05:55 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

TSSL Wrote: (07-08-2024, 07:13 AM) -- I would love to develop some robust classifiers that perhaps could be compounded for some nifty root-building. -- What do you mean by this, in more detail?
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 07-08-2024, 10:24 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

TSSL Wrote: (07-08-2024, 07:13 AM) -- Anyway, grammatical features often relate to expectations, not just objective stuff... we can see this in how the word "few," for example, can refer to completel...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 07-08-2024, 10:22 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

I've had some more THL ideas: --Maybe THL has an "octal" grammatical number, for specifically 8 things. It might also have dual and quadral grammatical numbers. --THL could have more specific te...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 06-22-2024, 05:55 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

tasp Wrote: (06-14-2024, 05:51 AM) -- Zanly Wrote: (06-14-2024, 03:12 AM) -- /to↓!ulǃhoǃloǃsː/, with an optionally-marked-in-names ingressive /o/ at the start because I think it'd be cool if the nam...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 06-22-2024, 04:52 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

tasp Wrote: (06-13-2024, 06:45 AM) -- Mostly unrelated: I was having more fun thinking about writing systems and I thought a sort of braille using clay was a potential candidate for a historical medi...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 06-22-2024, 04:49 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

tasp Wrote: (06-13-2024, 06:38 AM) -- Zanly Wrote: (06-01-2024, 04:37 AM) -- Based on various suggestions, I have updated my propsed THL phoneme inventory: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VSFHWU...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 06-14-2024, 03:12 AM
    Thread: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming
Post: RE: To'ul'ho('lo')ss Conlang Brainstorming

By the way, since we're dealing with an alien language (albeit one spoken by aliens with surprisingly human-like psychology), maybe we should try to intentionally violate several human language lingui...
Zanly General Setting Discussion 104 1,325 06-08-2024, 02:26 AM
    Thread: Angel Hair rewrite proposal
Post: RE: Angel Hair rewrite proposal

Andrew P. Wrote: (06-03-2024, 09:26 AM) -- As for the details of AH/AHL "biology", I think the current description (i.e. they're basically nonliving strings of polymers that replicate by fragmentatio...
Zanly Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 38 545 06-03-2024, 11:40 AM
    Thread: Angel Hair rewrite proposal
Post: RE: Angel Hair rewrite proposal

Thank you, Andrew! Means a lot to hear all that! I'll admit that the AHL biology stuff was just copied from the Wikipedia article on sponges and then reworded, because I am not an expert on this st...
Zanly Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 38 545 06-02-2024, 01:30 PM