#conlang?

[byz-was-here]

Treespeak/chutespeak.

I hate writing it, but it's fun to think about. It's a whole dialect specific to Le-Matoran in one part of one island in the entire Matoran universe.

Presumably it's meant to speed up communication and simplify things between Chute operators?

So it makes little sense to just throw in a weird compound word in the middle of an otherwise normal sentence. Unless it's translated for the readers, or toned down for other people's benefit.

So essentially, I think there's levels to treespeak, and Le-Matoran codeswitch between them depending on time, place, and who they're talking to.

Level 0: Standard Matoric.

Level 1: Mostoften normal sentences with somefew compound words thrown in flavorwise. This is what we readhear in the books, or speaktalk to other matoran.

Level 2: Shortsmaller sentences, with muchgreat wordjoining. You speakuse prounouns and prepositions whereplace clearneeded, likeways conjunctions. Le-Matoran speaktalk samewise when restcalm or worknot.

Level 3: Context muchneeded hearlistening, elsewise hardtime hearfollowing. Oftenspoke fighttime, likeways hurrywork. Driveangers notspeakers crazymad, stillyet muchfun chutespeaking anyways.

[dedalvs]

Baxtai nod pigglobshae, meknid…(alorak)

FYI I get these every so often and don't really know what to do with them. If it's a conlang, that's cool, but give me a translation, or a link, or something! If it's a code or a language game...bleh. Too much work. And no key! If you just want to see what I do with it, sometimes I do something fun, and then sometimes I come from my long day at the conlang factory, take off my bowler hat and suspenders, sit at my wooden table with my plate of steak and eggs, open the evening Tumblr, and get something like this, and just...sigh. I'd rather turn on my radio program and listen to my stories and a bit of Glen Miller than wrangle with baxtais and pigglobshaes, old sport.

[buzzkillchainsaw]

Yes I'm serious, no I'm not okay

(I'll be tagging this and further parts as #buzzkill aquatic so feel free to use that tag too if you use my aquatic expansion in your art/animations/fanfics etc)

Next part (tail edition):

[kuroashims]

ֆօʍɛ ֆɨʍʟɨֆɦ քɦʀǟֆɛֆ ʏօʊ ʍɨɢɦȶ ʄɨռɖ ʊֆɛʄʊʟ ɨռ ʟɨʄɛ

hello : sul sul! / what's up : bloo bagoo? / how are you : cuh teekaloo? / i'm hungry : oh feebee lay / something in my way : choo waga choo choo! / you've got some nerve : firby nurbs / yes : yeibs / no : neib / oh my god : jamoo / woah this is fun : bum bum! / anyone home : nash na poof? / are you serious right now : ugh...groble! / you! yes you! go away : depwa spanewash depla blah! / excuse-me! get out of the way : blursh! meshaloob blursh! / i don't like you : boobasnot / no bullying : yabihorn! / i'm so bored : uhh shamoo ralla poo / happy birthday : humple borpnah! / this food is delicious : dis wompf es fredesche / thank you : vadish / nothing is impossible if you believe : benzi chibna looble bazebni gweb / cat : minicule / dog : woofum / baby is upset : aw crankus nooboo! / i'm pregnant : baba / i think you're hot : za woka genava / selfie : ongie! / i need a taxi : nicloske ga gloop / see you soon : geelfrob / i love you : por see gab lurv / live laugh love : leeb leefuh lurve / i'm on fire : wabadeebadoo! / goodbye : dag dag

[avemakuta]

Thinking about minecraft languages again I fear.

We know of at least two diagetic writing systems used in the world of minecraft— enchanting table language and some form of the Roman alphabet. We know that some form of the Roman alphabet is diagetic, because it exists in the world already before the Player arrives. Whoever built the desert temples assigned significance to the letters "TNT" enough to put it on their explosives. Pictographic writing also seems to exist, based on naturally-generating chiseled blocks, but that's harder to definitively state isn't purely decorative.

Villagers also presumably use some form of writing, given that they have librarians, but whatever that writing is, it doesn't seem to be legible to the Player, since we can't read books until we write in them ourselves.

The villager/illager species definitely creates symbolic art, given the use of banners by the illagers and of creeper face symbols on clerical robes. Piglins also use symbolic art, given the snouts carved into bastions, and it seems reasonable to conclude that they have some form of language.

This gives at least three languages in the world of minecraft— Piglin, Villager, and Desert Temple. Possibly a fourth, with Enchanting, but that could just be the writing system used by villagers, given that the Player doesn't seem to be able to read it.

What would those languages be like? What kinds of poetry are written in the Hnnngs and Hrrs of the villagers, or the grunts and snorts of the piglins? Could a piglin and a villager learn each other's languages, or are they too different not just in terms of vocabulary but in terms of the physical features required to communicate? Do piglins carry information in the flapping of their ears? Do villagers produce complex tones by resonance in their large noses?

And what about etymologies? For villagers, wool comes from sheep, but to a piglin, if wool exists at all, it's woven from strider hair. If the inhabitants of the desert temples had a word for gunpowder, was it related to their word for creeper? If piglins do, is it related to their word for ghast?

[opashoo]

"Friend, there are scavengers watching."

Suns gives Spearmaster a heads up. The text is in my own conlang that I'm using as a Reconstructed Ancient. It reads "!A toganggan .Chiengga mulngjer"

This was originally a practice sketch animation to figure out how to animate quadrupeds but it became a much broader practice piece.

[silverfoxboy]

hey therianblr, ive decided im gonna make a conlang just for therians. and im only going to let therians or alterhumans learn it. if youre interested, dm me (or if you have ideas on how it should sound) :3

the concept is similar to things like pig latin, its a language for a certain group of people, and that group does not want outsiders to learn their language so were gonna basically have our own language to ourselves! but that also means well have to regulate the resources used to learn it since its not meant for non alterhumans

if ur a therian PLEASE reblog this so more therians can know and help me out! pls an thx

[glyptolite]

[jan-asiku]

mi lon⭐

sitelen mama li tan @xxacidnekoxx. toki pona li tan @jan-asiku. o lukin e sitelen mama.

[bomberqueen17]

tone indicators

I reblogged this post without adding any commentary bc queue and not a lot of computer time lately but like okay here's the thing about tone indicators:

they're yet another in-group set of coded speech. like an inside joke, or a meme, or a conlang. if you are in a group that uses them, they're great and perfectly comprehensible.

but if you don't happen to have come from inside a group that uses them, they are exactly as exclusionary as any other heavy jargon or inside joke or acronym. I mean have you ever listened to soldiers talk? The US Army communicates in heavily jargon-ified speech, liberally laden with acronyms, so much so that it's a self-referential joke to make up obscene or deliberately-obfuscated ones to slip into official reports since the sorts of people who'd kick up a fuss about obscene language won't understand them.

It is exactly the same thing. Except that's exclusionary on purpose, and tone indicators are exclusionary in effect but tout themselves as inclusionary.

So if I, an outsider to this, am reading along, and after a sentence, there's a / and then between one and three letters, that is not enough information for me to use to look it up.

This is absolutely inaccessible if you are not alreadhy in the group that uses it.

I wouldn't mind if the people who used them were just like 'oh ha sorry jargon, i'll try to explain if it's not clear, sorry i forget you guys don't know them' just like any other inside joke or meme or whatever.

But I was in a discussion with someone on a Discord and when I was puzzled about them including these weird slash-acronyms after their statements they were like oh how nice for you that you're not neurodivergent and don't need to use these.

Uh no. The opposite actually. I'm the kind of neurodivergent that needs context. I handle being excluded from conversations very poorly. And that's where I get pissed off, that people seem to be holding these up as the new be-all end-all of Finally Solving The Problem Of Ambiguous Tones In Social Interaction. The hell you are, kids. They're just another layer, and I'd say the worst one yet, out of many many many attempts to solve this exact problem. They are fundamentally inaccessible. Don't mistake the fact that you learned them (somewhere, in some context inaccessible to me) for them actually being universal.

Considered against the many different solutions that have been offered since text-only speech was invented, tone indicators stack up as among the very least-accessible of the lot, since they contain so little context in and of themselves-- if a key is not provided then they're totally inaccessible, and are exceptionally difficult for non-native English speakers, and in general require so much memorization or cross-referencing as to be prohibitively hostile to outsiders.

And that's fine, if what your'e doing is just meant for talking to your friends. But don't come into my conversations and berate me for not having memorized whatever incomprehensible set of acronyms you've newly-decided are the new universal truth. And what drives me the most insane is how many of these acronyms someone has now decided to assign a whole new meaning to are acronyms that are well-known and already existed and are in heavy use. So if you try to look them up guess what you get! is it gonna be the newly-created version or the one that's been in use for fifty to seventy-five years??

For one, P.O.S. has had a specific meaning in written and spoken English for a really damn long time and if you call me a piece of shit in the actual language I speak I am absolutely not going to interpret your conlang as having intended something nice. (YES REALLY THEY'RE USING THAT ONE TRY TO GUESS WHAT IT MEANS. NO. NO! I know. Fuck! That's wild. Absolutely the fuck not.)

[starry-bi-sky]

DPXDC CFAU Headcanon: Ghostspeak Edition

Ghosts in the Infinite Realms who saw Jason and Danny together called them "luzdra", a term in ghost speak that directly translates into the words "shared soul". It's literal definition is; "two ghosts with a bond so deep that it was as if they had split their souls in half and given one to the other", but in general it just means two ghosts with a profound, indescribable bond.

Luzdrus is the singular form of the word, and refers to only one ghost in the bond. While "luzdra" is plural and either refers to both of them together, or the relationship as a whole. It depends on the context of the conversation and who they're saying it to.

There is no romantic, platonic, or familial connotation behind the word. It just means "someone who shares a deep bond with someone" and can be between anyone.

It also does not mean soulmate, and if you say that you'll be corrected. Soulmates implies that their bond was destined by the universe, luzdra are two people who developed and built that bond themselves. It's a relationship forged between two (or more) people.

Some of Danny's rogues -- like Kitty and Johnny, who might've seen the two together and are possibly luzdra themselves -- still call him 'luzdrus' even after Jason's disappearance from the Zone. Danny doesn't know how to feel about it.

[byz-was-here]

More thoughts on treespeak/chutespeak.

mostly on prepositions: to, towards, over, under, etc.

As I imagine, in treespeak prepositions defined by either a prefix or suffix depending on context.

"Way" would be the general suffix, while specific modifiers combine the object of a sentence with a direction.

For example.

"to Le-Koro" becomes "Le-Koroway"

"Above the trees" becomes "Uptree"

two modifiers could be combined as a compound word to intensify the direction.

for example, "Upways" would mean that something is at the very top or high above depending on context.

Treespeak probably uses relative directions carefully, leaning HEAVILY on context. "Rightways" could mean either right (direction) or right (correct). so addional modifiers to the subject or object may be added, like saying "rightways truepath" to mean actually turning right.

The prefix "reverse-" or "out-" is sometimes added when needed to say that something is generally away or from.

"out-le-koroway" or "reverse-uptree" could mean Leaving/away/going/coming from Le-Koro or the treetops respectively.

"Outways" especially could be used as an intesifier to mean "anywhere but here."

In comparisons,

"likeways" or "likesame" compare similar things

When "-way" is applied to a person or thing instead of a place, it occasionally refers to personality traits of the person or thing.

"rahiway" could mean un-matoran behavior or traits, unless there happens to be a literal rahi nearby, because again, with treespeak, context is everything.

[dedalvs]

how'd you learn to write and read Valarian? im trying to learn some and it seems that your really knowledgeable about the language.

I created the High Valyrian language. I’ve learned quite a bit of it in translating stuff for GoT, Duolingo, and HotD. Practice, practice, practice. :)

[buzzkillchainsaw]

Tagging this and any previous/further parts as #buzzkill aquatic. Feel free to use that tag whenever you use my aquatic expansion in your own work (not mandatory)

[shaonicwhite]

kind of obsessed with the conlang invented by 12th century composer and mystic hildegard von bingen. she called it lingua ignota and just sort of never explained why it exists or what it’s for? like. girl. why did you do this

in case you're wondering what was up with her, like, in general, she was an abbess who was (1) politically influential, (2) chronically ill, and (3) plagued by visions.

but like seriously girl WHAT was the conlang for. TELL ME