Sometime around 6:30 p.m. EDT, I will have a draft done, approximately 3500 words. Is anyone available who could read it over for glaring typos, etc.? before say 10 EDT? <.<
Submitted!
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In a place between the stars, where dreams live, a man named Pterry was writing.
His mind was clear and his eyes were clear, and his fingers flew across the keys. Still, he noticed immediately when the two walked in.
“We heard you had a casting call, mate.” One was fair and smiling, the other dark and dour.
“You’re not my normal types…” Even as he said it, the man called Pterry’s mind was slotting them this way and that. Not the Guard, no. Not the Wizards, that lot was too silly. Not the Assassins, too crass. The Witches, maybe, if they’d been women… he put that idea aside for another day. He hadn’t done much to the Thieves’ Guild; maybe they needed shaking up?
He’d barely gotten the thought finished when the fair one was grinning at him. “What do you need us to be, then?”
The dark one smiled. It was a surprisingly bright and cheerful expression, lighting up his face and the room. “We’re nothing if not versatile.”
The man called Pterry began to think, and words flew across his screen at the speed of thought. The printer beside him rumbled and creaked – because even printers have dreams – and two scripts shot out of the tray.
He handed them off, the ink still wet. “Take a gander at this, then.”
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Turning things into other things!
(Derivational morphology)
because Whispers Drop started out with a very small vocabulary (for plot-based reasons), it is very heavy on suffixes and prefixes to derive more meaning from one word.
For examples:
shef is cat
fena is to slink
“process or state” -orf
That would, technically, be “slinkage” or “the process of slinking across the hall, WHY did I pick slink?
fenorf, slinkage.
And, ah, cattiness, the state of being cat (because this is a noun, it is a prefix) For(f)shef, forshef
When moving a -VLC suffix to prefix, repeat the ending C in the beginning. If it is prefixing (a rule here that includes sh and other awkward sounds), remove the ending C in the prefix.
And there, we have one derivational morphology!
I can get /days/ out of this.
Which is good, because I’m way behind.
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Patreon
The theme poll is closed, and January’s theme will be Addergoole!
I have been working on this month’s serial post. Werewolves!
Serials
Edally continues apace! Enrie keeps digging into things that she really shouldn’t…
If you haven’t checked it out, start here: Edally Acdemy is a series of stories, following three new students as they work through their life and their plans for the future in a steampunk boarding school. It belongs to the same world as last month’s Lexember conlang, Reiassan, and to my novel-in-progress, Rin & Girey.
Conlang
I’ve started on Languary, an idea started by ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
becka_sutton (languary), creating a language for a new setting.
Fun
I wrote a series of stories of Boom in Cloverleaf, playing off of some roleplay inventrix & I are doing, itself playing off an old story I wrote of Cya and Boom.
There’s also this AU that came off of that series of stories.
Discovery is set in Edally-Era Calenyen, telling the story of a ship from Homeland reaching Reiassan
Prompt Calls
My December Prompt Call is going to stay open until it stops being fun 😉
The theme is “Prompt something fun for me or fun for you.”
Stories include
Planning for Spring, space/colonies
Dinner, modern/threesome
Bound Up, Fae Apoc/Modern
Warm and Cozy, modern/creepy
I also still have this Addergoole in the Apocalypse “give me ideas” call open.
And Your Little Friends Too comes out of this call
Offline/not posted
I also:
Wrote 1000 words on an fdom cyberpunk paranormal romance novella
Wrote 1300 words on a secret project
Wrote 1300 words of submissions and 300 words of commissions (Commission out for character approval)
For a grand total of 11,681 words from Jan 1-7th!
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Okay!
Now I have to Drop the Drop!
Which means I had to figure out that “present continuous” tense existed.
I have nuba, which is the root for drop.
Without figuring out all of the conjugations at the moment, -othe is the ending for:
Continuous present tense, third person singular.
But the whispers are plural!
Okay, then -othed.
the -a on nuba goes away, and you get Nubothed ˈnəb ō ˌthed
We’re going VOS so:
nubothed ssussusser
Whispers Drop
Edit: I said VOS, I thought VOS, and then I wrote it SV. Sign. Fixed.
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If you’re following this, you may have noticed that I’m fascinated by plurals with grammatical number.
So in making a plural to make the words Whispers Drop, I decided to make several plural forms.
-er is the most commonly used, and indicates a generic plural.
-ara indicates part of a group, “those four students,” for instance.
-ore indicates all of a particular thing.
And here’s another thing to add in!
Whisper is ssussu.
To make this plural, we’ll repeat the first consonant (in this case the only consonant): ssussusser.
(Rule, courtest thnidu: “When pluralizing, if the word ends in a vowel copy the first consonant onto the end before adding the ending.”)
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Okay, I want to name the language:
Whispers Drop
But this means I need to make:
1. Verb conjugation
2. pluralization
3. the words for whisper and drop
Okay, starting out easy:
ssussu, the first word in my gibberish, is Whisper.
nuba is going to be some form of drop
Okay, got that done. I’ll do the next part tomorrow!
runs off
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Questions from Zompist’s Language Construction Kit
This is a work in progress and also a learning exercise. I don’t have all – even most of – the vocabulary, so pls. be patient.
Also, it’s a worldbuilding exercise at the same time…
Is your language fusional, agglutinative, or isolating?
I think I’m going to go with fusional, in part to try something utterly different from Caleyen. It also gives me the option of moving one of the dialects to analytic or agglgglgluglug… *cough* Agglutinative.
How do you form inflections?
…Not sure yet!
I’m /thinking/ prefixes. It suits the way the sentences feel to me. But on the other hand, I’m fonder of suffixes for comprehension. That could be because English is my first language and I’ve only studied romance languages….
After a bit of research: Suffixes it is! Mostly.
Side note: Negation appears at the sentence’s beginning or end, depending on context. That really goes in the Sentence order post.
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yay!
Okay, this is probably how I will write these in the Roman alphabet.
Consonants:
b, t, d, ph (ɸ), f, th, ss*, sh, h, pf, ch(/x/), [still-not-sure-I-have-a-J], r, l, m, n
* I could totally do this as “s” but I like the visual susurration of the double s.
** This is a very fricative language. I felt like it.
That was easy.
Vowels
| uh | u |
| oe(oo) | o |
| ah(ae) | a |
| eh | e |
| ee | ea |
| ih | i |
Alphabet…. I’m still considering style, much less actual letters. And numbers. Since it’s a real-world system, they may use arabic numbers.
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My December Prompt Call (Theme: some for you, more for me) is still open! We are $5 in tips from everyone getting more words on their prompts!
Check it out!
http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/1031669.html
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http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/1140792.html
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