Category: Conlang Year
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Day 139: May 18, 2024
Goal: Explore options for number bases Note: The goal is to identify what numbers you will need for counting. Tip: You may opt to have a less specific counting system. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s goal shifts the focus to numbers in your conlang. Spend today exploring options for number bases. Some options you might consider…
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Day 138: May 17, 2024
Goal: Document your NP negation strategy Note: Write a section detailing your strategy and then update your dictionary, if needed. Tip: It may make sense to combine this section with another. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Document the decisions you made about negating noun phrases. If this strategy overlaps with another, it may make sense to combine…
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Day 137: May 16, 2024
Goal: Create a noun negation strategy Note: Create any lexical sources you need to support your work and give examples of NPs. Tip: You may opt to rely on verbal negation to achieve this! Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create a strategy for negating noun phrases in your language. You may need to…
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Day 136: May 15, 2024
Goal: Explore strategies for negating nouns Note: Think about how your language might say phrases like “not the rabbit.” Tip: This strategy may be the same as other negation in your language. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try You previously came up with ways to say phrases like “no rabbits,” but today’s prompt focuses on a different kind…
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Day 135: May 14, 2024
Goal: Update your dictionary Note: Make sure you include all the new adjective forms you have created. Tip: You may need to include inflected forms in the head of the entry. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share It’s a cleaning day! Use today to clean up your documentation and update your dictionary, making sure you create dictionary entries…
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Day 134: May 13, 2024
Goal: Expand your adjective section Note: Demonstrate ordering of modifiers and any inflectional marking. Tip: Use the NPs you’ve created as examples in your description. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Now that you have introduced your modifiers in a section on adjectives, expand the information to include their uses in noun phrases. Describe where adjectives typically occur…
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Day 133: May 12, 2024
Goal: Write an introduction to adjectives Note: Focus on where adjectives come from in your language. Tip: You may need to split them into “noun-y” and “verb-y” forms. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today the focus shifts to documenting the decisions you’ve made about modifiers in the past week or so. Write an introduction to a section…
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Day 132: May 11, 2024
Goal: Expand your example NPs Note: Use the NPs you created and add more modifiers and/or layers of inflection. Tip: If modifiers agree, remember to inflect all modifiers. Work focus: Create/Make/List Using the structures you planned out yesterday, expand the list of NPs you created a couple days ago. Specifically, expand them to include multiple…
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Day 131: May 10, 2024
Goal: Plan the structure of NPs with multiple modifiers Note: Decide what the order will be when there are multiple modifiers and/or inflections. Tip: A template can help keep phrases ordered and consistent. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Plan out how you are going to handle noun phrase structures that involve multiple modifiers and/or inflections. It’s important…
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Day 130: May 9, 2024
Goal: List examples of noun & adjective pairs Note: These pairs will demonstrate how attributive modifiers are placed in your language. Tip: These adjectives may inflect to agree with their head noun. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create a list of example noun phrases demonstrating attributive adjective placement relative to the head noun…