Category: Prompt
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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…
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Day 129: May 8, 2024
Goal: Create adjective forms in your language Note: These may be basic, derived, or adjective-like verbs/nouns. Tip: Create words to describe common features in the conworld. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to have some fun creating new adjectives (or adjective-like forms) in your language! Whether you create basic roots, derived/compounded forms, nominal modifiers, or…
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Day 128: May 7, 2024
Goal: Make a plan for your adjectives Note: Decide if non-basic adjectives will come from nouns and/or verbs. Tip: This decision is linked to adjective agreement. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Now that you have brainstormed options, today’s goal is to make a plan for your adjectives—specifically, non-basic adjectives. Regardless of whether your language has adjectives that…
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Day 127: May 6, 2024
Goal: Brainstorm ideas for adjective development Note: Think about ways you might derive adjectives from noun and/or verb roots. Tip: Another option is to use nominal modifiers or predicative verbs. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s goal is to brainstorm ideas for ways you might create new adjectives (beyond any basic adjectives you might have in your…