Robbie A, Conlanger @Alamantus@polyglot.city

Hoo boy, some of the books I've looked at in the #HumbleBundle Japanese Culture & Language bundle are stupid as hell so far with exactly the inane garbage I was expecting about the language and writing. I'm hoping I'll end up with enough worthwhile books to outweigh the bad ones.

At least most of the money went to charity.

A conlang in a conworld that's just an existing natural language

Gonna start making "evil" the antonym for "compassion" in all my conlangs

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Ok, so I've decided that starting today, I'm going to dedicate a minimum of half an hour every day to studying Japanese. That half hour is Japanese Time. If I have more time available after that, I can go for an hour, but if not, that's ok because I've had Japanese Time.

I don't trust myself to be able to stick to it, but I really want to do it and prove myself wrong!

I hate that I'm so interested in conlangs and alternate writing systems that I try to learn about those instead of working on learning Japanese. Japanese would be so much more helpful to know, but here I am fussing over toki pona and Shavian and better writing systems and whatnot. Meh.

Oh well, at least it's fun.

So I really like the #Shavian writing system for English (https://www.shavian.info/) but I can't help but feel like the characters are too narrow. It's nice that they're completely different than the regular Latin alphabet, but I feel like it needs rounder symbols to help make it easier to pick out individual letters.

I got a spark of inspiration for my ehw #conlang tonight and I ended up adding a new vowel (/i/ with orthography <ie>) and some additional utility markers: "nie" /ni/ ties an adjective to a noun to create a new noun rather than just describing the noun, and "in" /ɪn/ as the present-participial adjective marker to pair with the pre-existing "ed" that behaved as a past-participial adjective!

https://lexicon.ga/170

I also brainstormed a writing system, but it's not quite ready yet.

#glossopoeia

I kept seeing "Shavian" on various conlanging forums, and I finally decided to look into it. I've got to say, it's pretty inspiring, and it makes me want to come up with my own alphabet using the phonemes for it.

This is great:
https://youtu.be/TEsqY4MH40s