Artemis for the Moon, The Martian for Mars, and Project Hail Mary for Venus.
Probably unintentionally but I just found that a bit funny XD
Have ONE interesting sound 😭🙏
Edit: CV syllable structure too 💔
What I mean by this is the phase after you’ve formed all the sounds, phonotactics, and grammar. After this, it’s pretty much just working on coining words. Obviously you may want to revise those previous aspects but, in general, you’re done with the core of the language and just have to build out vocab (this phase also comes before evolving your language if it’s naturalistic, but that’s not really relevant to the question)
I ask this because normally my conlangs tend to be very fusional and have a lot of affixation. But I decided I wanted to work on a analytical conlang that uses word order and a handful of auxiliary words to handle the things my affixes normally would.
And I got to the word coining phase way quicker than I normally do. I suppose this makes sense, but it makes it feel kind of cheaper. Like normally it takes a few weeks of passive work to get all the grammar stuff sorted out, sometimes longer. But for this lang it took less than a week.
So how long is normal for you to get to this part of language creation?
The book version is so different! When Grace refuses, Stratt is so cold. I felt absolutely sickened as she started listing off how Grace was a coward, how the reason he was kept was for this express purpose.
It really did leave a bitter a taste in my mouth that the movie most definitely did not do, Andy Weir really is a fantastic writer!
I was curious about this because I can’t find much on it and I want to turn my /z/‘s into a more interesting sound
I’m very curious about this because I like to take a lot of inspiration from natlangs and have to find a balance between inspiration and making the conlang feel, to me, like “my own”.
And if you do take a lot of inspiration, what natlangs do you like to take from? For me, I love Proto-Germanic phonology
COWS!
You see, the word “cow” refers to the female variant of that species, while “bull” refers to males. But the fact I can only say “that species” is weird, right?
There’s no single, normal-sounding, gender-neutral word for this species. Yes, there’s bovine, but that feels very technical and out of place in normal speech. Cattle is plural, calf is for babies.
My guess as to the reason is just cows and bulls play very different roles in the way humans use them.
But I think this is one of the most bizarre things about English. Are there other languages like this or that have something similar?
The apps are tinted Petrova-red
In this article there is NO other mention of another sound in Etruscan using <f>. Like P SQUARED????
I can’t explain this at all, but I remember VIVIDLY Rudeus’s original body being named “Winston”.
I don’t know if maybe there was another character that was named that and I’m getting confused, but I very distinctly remember him being “Winston”. I’ve been conceptualizing a fanfic I want to work on where he’s startled by someone calling him “Winston” (his original name) but it just…isn’t named in the series??
I’ve gotten so accustomed to calling him Winston in my head, I have ZERO idea how this happened without that name being mentioned in the show once!
Can we just call him Winston?? I know I’m gonna keep on headcannoning that he’s Winston because I’m so used to it.
WHAT
Here me out:
As many linguists have pointed out in recent years, many of English’s “diphthongs” can better be analyzed as sequences of vowel+glide
/aɪ/ = /aj/
/eɪ/ = /ej/
/iː/ = /ij/
/oʊ/ = /ow/
/uː/ = /uw/
Et cetera
Now my first thought was “could it be said that English doesn’t allow words to end with vowels?” (as short vowels can’t end words) but there are three problem vowels I can think of
/ə/, /ɑː/, and /ɔː/ which can all end words, and I haven’t heard being grouped in with this whole “vowel+glide” theory. Damn.
But then I remembered I’m someone who will try to make the most ridiculous, splitting-hairs-y points possible.
/ɑː/ is easy to take care of because of something I learned a few weeks ago: the voiced pharyngeal approximant is the glide variant of /ɑ/. Ergo
/ɑː/ = /ɑʕ̞/
Now we’re left with a problem (at least I am). /ɔ/ and /ə/ don’t seem to have obvious approximant variants (as far as I know).
Is there an elegant solution to these two? Can I be in a kind of very technical way correct in saying that English doesn’t allow word-final vowels? Please assist!