Robbie A, Conlanger @Alamantus@polyglot.city

I only want to work on my conlang today 😭

The important factor in all this to me is that I'm working from a base set of sounds and grammar concepts that I personally like instead of trying to iterate on an interesting concept I wanted to play with. That's been making a big difference personally!

I've started working on another new conlang, but I'm going about it a bit differently this time: after building the phonotactics of the phonology I've chosen and parsing/expanding toki pona definitions from a master word list, I'll generate the base dictionary of words with a script. Then I'll massage the results a bit, derive new words from the roots using grammatical suffixes and such, and end up with a pretty convincing dictionary to develop more grammar from!

It's been fun so far 😄

If it was instead just [red room's divine] it would be "sewi pi tomo loje" to specify that the room is red, not the divine. Likewise, the room is for fire working, and the divine being talked about is described by [(fire working) room].

And I'm pretty sure that's how to you use "pi" in #tokiPona

I read some stuff, and now I'm pretty confident that "pi" is defining groupings in a sequence of words. So "sewi pi suno" is just a more wordy way to say "sewi suno" because "suno" isn't being modified and thus the grouping is clear, but "sewi pi tomo pi pali seli" needs "pi" between "sewi" and "tomo" because "tomo" is modified by another word, and the modifying word is itself modified, "pali seli" [fire work], thus requiring the grouping marker: [((fire work) room) divine]

#tokiPona #grammar question for a friend:

To say "Divine of the Sun", do I use "pi" between "sewi" and "suno" (i.e. "sewi pi suno" or "sewi suno")? Is "divine of the Sun" really different than "Sun god?"

Branching from this, "Divine of the Forge", assuming "forge" is "room of fire work", "tomo pi pali seli", do I use "pi" between "sewi" and "tomo pi pali seli" (i.e. "sewi pi tomo pi pali seli")? Or do I treat it as one long adjective because "pi" is for separating adjective groups?

#conlang

Well that's annoying, my Flashcards.io deck isn't loading anymore. At least I have it saved on my phone, but I can't seem to share it anymore. Guess I'll need to work a little harder on getting an Anki deck sorted out.

Makes me want to build a conlang based on toki pona and Hawaiian

I wish I had a reason to learn Hawaiian. I really like the way it sounds.

For reference, here are the other dictionaries I merged with pu:

- http://tokipona.net/tp/ClassicWordList.aspx
- https://devurandom.xyz/tokipona/dictionary.html
- https://devurandom.xyz/tokipona/13.html

(I also pulled a couple definitions from jan Misali's video on ku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3p4-GFXrkM&t=245s)

Well, I wanted a way to #study #tokiPona #vocabulary from a master list that included the new ku words plus some other common combo words, so I compiled a word list with the definitions from pu merged with 2 other dictionaries I found online that I could copy and paste into the only #flashCards app I could find that was fully free on iOS.

Here is the end result:
https://flashcards.io/app?deck=d-17438-2021-12-06T20%3A21%3A38.051Z17

sina o musi!

On a related note, I finally added a few words for colors! Can't believe I didn't have any colors before: https://lexicon.ga/170/123

toki pona li jo e lipu sin??
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0978292367/

mi wile ona a!

o lukin e sitelen lipu sona:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3p4-GFXrkM

"toki pona has a new book?? I want it! Look at the knowledge-document-picture" (I don't yet know what a better phrase for "informational video" would be)

Learning toki pona is unbelievably inspiring for continuing my work on ehw (https://lexicon.ga/170).

toki! mi jan Lapi li kama sona e toki pona. sina wile kama sona la ni li ilo pona:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjOmpMyMxd8T9lZjF36c4mn4YgwZ4ToT6

"Hi! I'm Robbie, and I'm learning toki pona. If you want to learn, this is a good tool"

Ah fuck it, I'm learning toki pona

Have I mentioned my #Zirka #conlang / #codelang / #artlang on here before? I made a very lightweight website for it with all the details and I'm quite fond of it:
https://zirka.ga

It's far from perfect, but I use it more often than I often expect to in my RPG ventures!