Okay, i’m back. I’ve updated the lexicon thus far and made a few slight corrections. Since the malt§έgj orthography is now pretty firmly established in somewhat standard characters, i see no reason to continue using the Chrysanthi Unicode font, as proud as i may be thereof; Times New Roman is capable of producing all the characters i need, and is somewhat more compact.
So, to continue...
...e ðac pul úla ðlai o§ mέlεm a, cwégir pul a, mal lơ dyd nag patáx harέc pul u naxád ac vlaj mέlεm u a§, lεf naxád batár yen u gwárxo a§.
Thursday, November 22, 2001
04.20.01.11.21.21.52
Malt§έgj Project Part IV
I’ve gotten a bit caught up in Baraq lately, so i figured it would be a nice change to revisit malt§έgj for a bit. I figured a good start would be a translation, so here, from Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, “On Love:”
On Love
Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love." And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your heights and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. ... All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart. But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears... [abridged]
nos dyd ðac almítra, “mεn ðac jalc að ðblεucþ έloi.” e dyd bran pul ul talp mεs e dyd culóm ut ul ga§ág a, e dyd t§ơ§ am wára parþ ap. e dyd ðac pul am harέc bórga oc: lơ bad t§ơ§ ðblεucþ úla ðlai o§ mέlεm að, mεn grol§ pul it, mal lơ εc ac bweð pul u xa§ e tεlx. e lơ t§ơ§ ac fwi pul u úla ðlai o§ mέlεm εð, mεn gεlc mέlεm pul a, mal lơ dyd nag patáx ul styx huct mέlεm að, úla, rac stáfad calc pul u ac áro§ e.
Okay, i’m already exhausted from that. But i’ve made up quite a few new words, and possibly encountered some new grammar to talk about and rearrange and ponder, so i’ll be back later.
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
[Editor's Notes]
That brings us to the end of "Section III" of the project, as well as the end of the files that were preserved in PDF format. Part IV remains only as a word document, and as such may contain some errors where fonts and certain characters are concerned (if any were used there).
Monday, October 22, 2001
04.20.01.10.22.12.40
Just a few comments. I attempted to make a malt§έgj version of my website, which generated a few new words:
I also updated the website on malt§έgj verbs, which may be useful to include here. Most of this has already been stated, but it can’t hurt to clarify:
Wow, it’s nice to know that I can do that with my web pages in case I need to PDFify them. Anyway, the malt§έgj version of the webpage itself was a brutal disaster, so I’ll spare you that one. Why is this thing suddenly back on auto-correct? Grrr… Remind me to start beating my lab monitors.
Oh, i’m not sure if i ever put the word lơt§εg in the lexicon. It means “important.”
Okay, we’re almost twice the length we should be here, so it’s time to wrap up chapter three of the malt§έgj project. Bjólεt nad mέlεm a!
| clyc | click (as in “click here”) |
| mlacþ | ready, finished |
| dwεg | new |
| blími | word |
I also updated the website on malt§έgj verbs, which may be useful to include here. Most of this has already been stated, but it can’t hurt to clarify:
[Editor's Note: I'm really not going to bother to try to recreate the website's style sheets and special effects here on my blog. I was just excited at the time to have learned how to do it. I'm fairly over it now.]
ul iþ T§έcmað Malt§έgj u Scrav u ac Blími The title of this page is actually somewhat inaccurate, as verbs are not conjugated in the malt§έgj language, but a brief explanation of verbs is in order in any case. There are no special endings to indicate person, tense, or number in malt§έgj, however there are certain particles as in asian languages which denote tense. Number and person are indicated by the pronoun (which is not optional as it is in some languages where person and number are indicated by a suffix).
When particles are used in combination, there is a set order to them, most of which is common sense. You may use the table below to remember the order. dyd - nag - cwarþ - blai - rac - lơ - §lþ |
Wow, it’s nice to know that I can do that with my web pages in case I need to PDFify them. Anyway, the malt§έgj version of the webpage itself was a brutal disaster, so I’ll spare you that one. Why is this thing suddenly back on auto-correct? Grrr… Remind me to start beating my lab monitors.
Oh, i’m not sure if i ever put the word lơt§εg in the lexicon. It means “important.”
Okay, we’re almost twice the length we should be here, so it’s time to wrap up chapter three of the malt§έgj project. Bjólεt nad mέlεm a!
Monday, September 17, 2001
04.20.01.09.17.16.40
I think i’ve finally succeeded in completely getting rid of all affixes and making this what i set out to create: a language where words exist in and of themselves without mutating, morphing, changing, shifting, or anything else. Kind of like chinese, in a way, but much more malt§έgjèsque! Of course that does away with my ever so poetic mlàwarán, but such is life.
All prepositions are now to be considered separate words. I know, there goes the whole idea that started this language in the first place, but oh well. I’ll probably be adding some consonants to a few of them as well. Prepositions will, however, still follow the word they modify. The prefix ac- for the plural will now become a separate particle, but will not be needed if a number is included in the sentence.
The short list of particles thus far, which is certain to grow as the language expands and i find new and exciting things to do with them, is as follows:
So let’s talk sentence structure for a minute here. I know we’ve been through this before, but i just want to solidify some things. Okay, basic structure is VSO, but depending on prepositions can be VOS. Let’s add to that. PVSO has become apparent in dealing with the verbs, but should there be an order to the particles themselves? Actually, that’s something that has to be determined by the individual particle i suppose. For instance, dyd must precede cwarþ, because otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense. That would be like the difference between ‘he had gone’ and ‘he has went.’ I think i would like to see §lþ remain close to the verb, though, so we’ll say tentatively that §lþ must directly precede the verb. Ach, i’m starting to have flashbacks to those notorious ‘donkey tables’ in 9th grade french class... at least that’s what my teacher called them. She was a little weird though. (Ya know, cause the pronouns end in ‘y – en’...get it?...Ya know where you do the direct object pronouns and they go ‘me/te/se – le/la/les – lui/leurs – y – en’...okay, nevermind.)
Okay, so...
dyd - lơ – nag - cwarþ – blai – rac - §lþ - V – ac - S – ac - O
I’m not exactly sure why i put lơ where i did, but it seemed to make some sort of sense at the time.
Okay, nuff o dat. Let’s talk prepositions for a moment. They have heretofore all had an initial vowel so that they could be easily tacked onto the ends of nouns and pronouns. But now that i have sundered them, i think some can stand a few consonants to weight them down a little. We wouldn’t want any prepositions floating around on us, now, would we? But actually, that’s something i’ll work on gradually, because most of them seem to work quite nicely as they are. I still particularly like έloì.
Speaking of prepositions, i’ve decided to give one of them a bit of a rest. I’m still being way too anal about ‘u,’ and i have to get over this compulsion to genetivize everything! I mean, we can still keep it around for special occasions, but a simple combining of nouns can work just as well. I think i’ll keep it around for direct possession for the time being. So ‘the dlatci language’ will lose it’s u (dlát§i glơd) but ‘the man’s house’ will keep it (hanác u márga).
Back to particles, though, there are many particles to be found right in amongst the prepositions, like the lovely way we turn hunger into hungry with a simple oc or εm. Not sure what my point was, but i thought it was nice.
All prepositions are now to be considered separate words. I know, there goes the whole idea that started this language in the first place, but oh well. I’ll probably be adding some consonants to a few of them as well. Prepositions will, however, still follow the word they modify. The prefix ac- for the plural will now become a separate particle, but will not be needed if a number is included in the sentence.
The short list of particles thus far, which is certain to grow as the language expands and i find new and exciting things to do with them, is as follows:
| dyd | past | dyd narám jơg | i wrote |
| cwarþ | perfect | cwarþ narám jơg | i have written |
| blai | progressive | blai narám jơg | i am writing |
| nag | future | nag narám jơg | i will write |
| lơ | subjunctive | lơ narám jơg | (that) i (may) write |
| rac | passive | dyd rac narám clag | the book was written |
| §lþ | interrogative | §lþ dyd narám pul clag að? | did he write the book? |
| ac | plural | dyd narám pul lεxέt ac clag (but) dyd narám pul dan clag | he wrote many books. he wrote seven books. |
So let’s talk sentence structure for a minute here. I know we’ve been through this before, but i just want to solidify some things. Okay, basic structure is VSO, but depending on prepositions can be VOS. Let’s add to that. PVSO has become apparent in dealing with the verbs, but should there be an order to the particles themselves? Actually, that’s something that has to be determined by the individual particle i suppose. For instance, dyd must precede cwarþ, because otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense. That would be like the difference between ‘he had gone’ and ‘he has went.’ I think i would like to see §lþ remain close to the verb, though, so we’ll say tentatively that §lþ must directly precede the verb. Ach, i’m starting to have flashbacks to those notorious ‘donkey tables’ in 9th grade french class... at least that’s what my teacher called them. She was a little weird though. (Ya know, cause the pronouns end in ‘y – en’...get it?...Ya know where you do the direct object pronouns and they go ‘me/te/se – le/la/les – lui/leurs – y – en’...okay, nevermind.)
Okay, so...
dyd - lơ – nag - cwarþ – blai – rac - §lþ - V – ac - S – ac - O
I’m not exactly sure why i put lơ where i did, but it seemed to make some sort of sense at the time.
Okay, nuff o dat. Let’s talk prepositions for a moment. They have heretofore all had an initial vowel so that they could be easily tacked onto the ends of nouns and pronouns. But now that i have sundered them, i think some can stand a few consonants to weight them down a little. We wouldn’t want any prepositions floating around on us, now, would we? But actually, that’s something i’ll work on gradually, because most of them seem to work quite nicely as they are. I still particularly like έloì.
Speaking of prepositions, i’ve decided to give one of them a bit of a rest. I’m still being way too anal about ‘u,’ and i have to get over this compulsion to genetivize everything! I mean, we can still keep it around for special occasions, but a simple combining of nouns can work just as well. I think i’ll keep it around for direct possession for the time being. So ‘the dlatci language’ will lose it’s u (dlát§i glơd) but ‘the man’s house’ will keep it (hanác u márga).
Back to particles, though, there are many particles to be found right in amongst the prepositions, like the lovely way we turn hunger into hungry with a simple oc or εm. Not sure what my point was, but i thought it was nice.
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
04.20.01.09.04.11.30
One more revision i would like to make today, concerning the subject of those nifty little esperantoèsque combination pronoun/adjective combinations i came up with. I wanted them to work something like dlatci, where a combination of them would generate new words, but in a language like malt§εgj they complicate things a bit too much. Hence, i’m splitting the words in two and they should still work just as nicely as they do in any other language.
So we got a couple new words out of all that.
I decided to keep mlímiὲm, ulímiὲm, and blímiὲm just because they’re kinda cool. I replaced the ðr- prefix with the appropriate demonstrative adjectives, of which there are now four to choose from: ul, úli, úla, and úlot.
On second thought, these can still be written as one word, they’re just not going to have the strange mutation thing going on. Hence: mlàwarán, mlaumára, mlàuhanác or mlauláð, mlauðlái mlaucþíð, &c. Notice the lovely way in which i have sculpted the contraction of mlau arán into mlàwarán, the u being replaced by a volutuous w! Pure poetry!
| ml+ | ðr+ | bl+ | → | mlau | ul, úli, úla... | blεg |
| mlága | ðrága | blága | mlau arán | ul arán | blεg arán | |
| mlaix | ðraix | blaix | mlau mára | ul mára | blεg mára | |
| mlεð | ðrεð | blεð | mlau hanác | ul hanác | blεg hanác | |
| mlímiὲm | ðrímiὲm | blímiὲm | mlímiὲm | ulímiὲm | blímiὲm | |
| mlơc | ðrơc | blơc | mlau | ul | blεg | |
| mlúmwe | ðrúmwe | blúmwe | mlau ðlai | ul ðlai | blεg ðlai | |
| mlýcþid | ðrýcþid | blýcþid | mlau cþið | ul cþið | blεg cþið |
So we got a couple new words out of all that.
| mlau | what, which |
| blεg | no, none (already means “no” also) |
| ðlai | time |
| cþið | manner, way |
I decided to keep mlímiὲm, ulímiὲm, and blímiὲm just because they’re kinda cool. I replaced the ðr- prefix with the appropriate demonstrative adjectives, of which there are now four to choose from: ul, úli, úla, and úlot.
On second thought, these can still be written as one word, they’re just not going to have the strange mutation thing going on. Hence: mlàwarán, mlaumára, mlàuhanác or mlauláð, mlauðlái mlaucþíð, &c. Notice the lovely way in which i have sculpted the contraction of mlau arán into mlàwarán, the u being replaced by a volutuous w! Pure poetry!
Saturday, September 1, 2001
04.20.01.09.01.17.39
On the subject of adjectives, there are several which don’t actually exist, but relative nouns can be made adjectives by adding the suffix –oc (with). Hence, as with the “I’m cold, I’m hungry” phrases i was working on before these wacky numbers got into the mix, one could say “Hunger is upon me” (lauc jớgεm) or adjectify the noun, “I am with hunger” (jơg láucoc). This will be the case for very many words which have both forms.
It just occurred to me that i do actually use the letter h in a couple of words, so for the record, h is still with us. I kinda like it, sometimes, depending on what letters are accompanying it.
It just occurred to me that i do actually use the letter h in a couple of words, so for the record, h is still with us. I kinda like it, sometimes, depending on what letters are accompanying it.
Friday, August 31, 2001
04.20.01.08.31.12.26
A couple of thoughts here. Foremost being why am i sitting at home writing up linguistical ideas on my birthday instead of, like, having a life? That’s easy—because i’m a dork. Moving on, then, i had a couple of ideas about phrases and a little grammar.
Words containing prepositions, that is, nouns or pronouns to which prepositions are affixed, will no longer require the use of a verb. “The book is on the table,” can quite easily be expressed with “tέflðàp ul clag” or even “tέflðàp clag” if i do indeed decide to kill off the definite article, as i am seriously considering.
In fact, yes, let’s tangentially go there for a moment. I think it seems perfectly fair to dispose of the definite article altogether and use other demonstrative adjectives and numbers to indicate if necessary. “uli,” “ula,” and “ulot” will suffice quite nicely if an article is needed. So consider “ul” to be a thing of the past, although now that opens us up stylistically to the use of the word “ul” as a contraction of any of the aforementioned three, or for use when no specific one of those is directly indicated, which is essence, i suppose, is the definite article anyway, so for now let’s just leave it at “the definite article exists, but is not necessary in most cases.” There, that was easy.
Anyway, back to prepositions not needing a verb, i would point out that although they no longer use “εc,” their tense can still be indicated with the use of “dyd,” “cwarþ,” “blai,” “lơ,” and “nag,” or combinations thereof. So to say “the book would have been on the table” it is now possible to say “dyd nag cwarþ tέflðàp clag.”
Finally, the other thought that was intruding my cluttered mind was that of certain phrases which seem to mutate in every language they encounter. You know, that old “i am hungry, i am cold, i am tired” category of idioms. You can find everything from “i am hungry” (English), to “i have hunger” (French, German), to “hunger is with me” (Welsh), and many more. In malt§έgj, this particular idiom will be prepositional in nature, something to the effect of “hunger/cold/tiredness is upon me.”
I am hungry - lauc jớgεm
Are you tired? - §lþ mέlεmὲm tarác?
Words containing prepositions, that is, nouns or pronouns to which prepositions are affixed, will no longer require the use of a verb. “The book is on the table,” can quite easily be expressed with “tέflðàp ul clag” or even “tέflðàp clag” if i do indeed decide to kill off the definite article, as i am seriously considering.
In fact, yes, let’s tangentially go there for a moment. I think it seems perfectly fair to dispose of the definite article altogether and use other demonstrative adjectives and numbers to indicate if necessary. “uli,” “ula,” and “ulot” will suffice quite nicely if an article is needed. So consider “ul” to be a thing of the past, although now that opens us up stylistically to the use of the word “ul” as a contraction of any of the aforementioned three, or for use when no specific one of those is directly indicated, which is essence, i suppose, is the definite article anyway, so for now let’s just leave it at “the definite article exists, but is not necessary in most cases.” There, that was easy.
Anyway, back to prepositions not needing a verb, i would point out that although they no longer use “εc,” their tense can still be indicated with the use of “dyd,” “cwarþ,” “blai,” “lơ,” and “nag,” or combinations thereof. So to say “the book would have been on the table” it is now possible to say “dyd nag cwarþ tέflðàp clag.”
Finally, the other thought that was intruding my cluttered mind was that of certain phrases which seem to mutate in every language they encounter. You know, that old “i am hungry, i am cold, i am tired” category of idioms. You can find everything from “i am hungry” (English), to “i have hunger” (French, German), to “hunger is with me” (Welsh), and many more. In malt§έgj, this particular idiom will be prepositional in nature, something to the effect of “hunger/cold/tiredness is upon me.”
I am hungry - lauc jớgεm
Are you tired? - §lþ mέlεmὲm tarác?
| I am... { | hot | heat | } ...is upon me. ⇒ | faurx | } ...jớgεm. | |
| cold | cold | níli | ||||
| hungry | hunger | lauc | ||||
| thirsty | thirst | ðεwft | ||||
| tired | fatigue | tarác | ||||
| ashamed | shame | ðlεxt | ||||
| stupid | stupidity | dódup | ||||
| wet | wetness | úlac |
04.20.01.08.31.12.26
I just noticed that there was a whole slew of words that i missed in the lexicon from part two of the project (04.20.00.12.07.13.25). The following corrections have been made:
Well, first things first. I’ve added the particle rac to the list, which basically makes a verb into a passive adjective. (Could one say that this is a particle which passifies verbs?) I had previously used this as a suffix, but i would rather come up with a particle to keep words simple.
As far as the hanác/lað situation, henceforth hanác will be the noun and lað the pronoun.
Okay, moving on. A few new words i came up with.
Also, whilst i was exiled to the kitchen table for yet another round of computer D&D, i came up with numbers. Well, the basic ones anyway.
I haven’t come up with any beyond 1000 yet, but my intention is to change the standard format a little bit by having each approaching decimal proceed to one place before the next, instead of in threes as do in most languages. Perhaps that’s badly phrased, but i’m not quite sure of the proper terms when talking about numbers. That is to say, most languages go up through ten and a hundred and start over... hence ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, billion, ten billion, hundred billion, trillion... and so on. Malt§έgj will be unique in that each new number will proceed to the number before it, so... ten, hundred, ten hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, ten hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, ten hundred million, thousand million, ten thousand million, hundred thousand million, ten hundred thousand million... A bit like binary, really, only with ten digits. Hence there’s a lovely little conservation of numbers which mathematicians and scientists are bound to love for discussing such eternally relevant subjects such as the mass of the sun in grams or the distance between earth and the most recently discovered quasar in millimetres or perhaps the number of electrons in your average can of Mountain Dew. I’ve drawn up a little chart, because some conversion is needed, but please forgive any errors in my standard nomenclature, because to be honest, after vigintillion i started making it up. I’ve also heard nonillion, nontillion, and novillion for 1030. I’ve added some pointers to show just how astronomically big these numbers actually are.
I didn’t actually notice this until i was in the process of creating the above table, but it’s more like binary than i thought. Notice that each new number falls on a binary power of ten (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128...). From this, we can assume that “sextillion,” if we should ever need a number quite that large, would be 1 x 10256. Or, in very tiny numbers:
Septillion, it then follows, is 1 x 10512. I’m not going to write that out, however.
Well, that was fun, however useless it may have been. I just have this strange obsession to conserve numbers, like i’m going to run out of them one day if i don’t. It’s not so bad, though, since they gave me those nice purple pills to take with the green ones.
| cwὲstrióþ | thank you |
| rac blynþ | to be named, to be called |
| blynþ | to call |
| rac | passive particle |
| aþ | silence |
| ráta | child |
| bórga | big |
| pέlci | small |
| rátacàþ | son/daughter |
| blocþ | battle |
| clớgεx | to slay, to kill |
| vεlc | old |
| gú§e | story, tale |
| hanác | man (i’ll consider in a moment how to reconcile this with lað) |
| tεmtið | early, long-ago |
| glácsi | remember |
Well, first things first. I’ve added the particle rac to the list, which basically makes a verb into a passive adjective. (Could one say that this is a particle which passifies verbs?) I had previously used this as a suffix, but i would rather come up with a particle to keep words simple.
As far as the hanác/lað situation, henceforth hanác will be the noun and lað the pronoun.
Okay, moving on. A few new words i came up with.
| patáx | to be able, can, could |
| ðrέpnid | to be allowed, may |
| na§ | must, to be necessary |
| mέlεx | to be likely, probably |
| ðráupnir | to become |
| cwέgir | to believe |
| mwil | bread |
| -ála | between |
Also, whilst i was exiled to the kitchen table for yet another round of computer D&D, i came up with numbers. Well, the basic ones anyway.
| 1 | am | 10 | (am) sεþ |
| 2 | dai | 11 | (am) sεþ am |
| 3 | tran | 12 | (am) sεþ dai |
| 4 | jamp | 20 | dai acsέþ |
| 5 | frεm | 30 | tran acsέþ |
| 6 | §e | 100 | (am) sam |
| 7 | dan | 200 | dai acsám |
| 8 | rεlc | 300 | tran acsám |
| 9 | nen | 1000 | §εp |
I haven’t come up with any beyond 1000 yet, but my intention is to change the standard format a little bit by having each approaching decimal proceed to one place before the next, instead of in threes as do in most languages. Perhaps that’s badly phrased, but i’m not quite sure of the proper terms when talking about numbers. That is to say, most languages go up through ten and a hundred and start over... hence ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, billion, ten billion, hundred billion, trillion... and so on. Malt§έgj will be unique in that each new number will proceed to the number before it, so... ten, hundred, ten hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, ten hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, ten hundred million, thousand million, ten thousand million, hundred thousand million, ten hundred thousand million... A bit like binary, really, only with ten digits. Hence there’s a lovely little conservation of numbers which mathematicians and scientists are bound to love for discussing such eternally relevant subjects such as the mass of the sun in grams or the distance between earth and the most recently discovered quasar in millimetres or perhaps the number of electrons in your average can of Mountain Dew. I’ve drawn up a little chart, because some conversion is needed, but please forgive any errors in my standard nomenclature, because to be honest, after vigintillion i started making it up. I’ve also heard nonillion, nontillion, and novillion for 1030. I’ve added some pointers to show just how astronomically big these numbers actually are.
[still preparing chart... please try again later]
I didn’t actually notice this until i was in the process of creating the above table, but it’s more like binary than i thought. Notice that each new number falls on a binary power of ten (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128...). From this, we can assume that “sextillion,” if we should ever need a number quite that large, would be 1 x 10256. Or, in very tiny numbers:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Septillion, it then follows, is 1 x 10512. I’m not going to write that out, however.
Well, that was fun, however useless it may have been. I just have this strange obsession to conserve numbers, like i’m going to run out of them one day if i don’t. It’s not so bad, though, since they gave me those nice purple pills to take with the green ones.
Sunday, August 26, 2001
04.20.01.08.26.15.20
Thinking back on this new VSO thing i’ve got going on, i realize that the contraction “parεc” is no longer useful. Which means i can finally get rid of that obnoxious “parac”! Paj sounds a little nicer anyway. And this only having one pronoun for he and she is getting old. It seemed a noble idea at the time, but it isn’t terribly practical. So he can stay pul, it can be paj, and she is now pel. The pronoun “one” can be assimilated by the new word lað.
04.20.01.08.26.13.16
I’m just working on the lexicon a bit, and i think i’m going to switch ʒ back to j. Sure, it looks a little prettier, but j is easier and would keep me from having to realphabetize quite a bit. For the record, ε now comes before e alphabetically, and ơ comes just after o, so the new alphabetical order is:
a b c d ð ε e f g i j l m n o ơ p r s § t þ u v w x ÿ y z
(a b k d ð ε e f g i ʒ l m n o ɔ p r s ʃ t θ u v w χ ɪ y z)
04.20.01.08.25.21.37
Just a brief note (in pen, no less, since at the moment i am being deprived of my computer in favour of a dungeons and dragons game of which my roommate is fond) about a few new things i’ve thought of.
First of all, the word mó§ara (ground) never made it into the lexicon due to some oversight. This has been (or rather, when i get back to my computer, will be) corrected.
Secondly, i wanted to expound somewhat on the idea of degrees of comparison of adjectives. There are now six degrees, and they have an interesting little sentence structure. These are represented by inserting interesting little adverbs in front of the adjective, which follows not the noun in question, but the nominative (usually) noun to which it is being compared. These are a slight modification of the system i developed in the second part of the malt§έgʒ project in section 04.20.00.12.07.13.25. They are:
Hence:
She was the prettiest of all her sisters.
Dyd εc pul pulu àcadína náran dið.
(did be she her sisters most pretty)
The nights are worse than the mornings.
Ec ul àcberí§ ul àctεmέt nan xrơx.
(are the nights the mornings more bad)
Noöne is as good as my mom.
Ec blεð ʒớgu máðra áman bʒólεt.
(is noöne my mother as good)
I am not as pretty as she.
Ec ʒơg pul lεxέt pan dið.
(am i she much less pretty)
He is the unluckiest man I have ever seen.
Ec pul ul lað pálan crơlx calcáð cwarþ εn culóm ʒơg.
(is he the man least lucky which have ever see i)
New Words
First of all, the word mó§ara (ground) never made it into the lexicon due to some oversight. This has been (or rather, when i get back to my computer, will be) corrected.
Secondly, i wanted to expound somewhat on the idea of degrees of comparison of adjectives. There are now six degrees, and they have an interesting little sentence structure. These are represented by inserting interesting little adverbs in front of the adjective, which follows not the noun in question, but the nominative (usually) noun to which it is being compared. These are a slight modification of the system i developed in the second part of the malt§έgʒ project in section 04.20.00.12.07.13.25. They are:
| Negative superlative | (least) | pálan |
| Negative comparative | (less) | pan |
| Positive | (-) | - |
| Equative | (as...as) | áman |
| Comparative | (more, -er) | nan |
| Superlative | (most, -est) | náran |
Hence:
She was the prettiest of all her sisters.
Dyd εc pul pulu àcadína náran dið.
(did be she her sisters most pretty)
The nights are worse than the mornings.
Ec ul àcberí§ ul àctεmέt nan xrơx.
(are the nights the mornings more bad)
Noöne is as good as my mom.
Ec blεð ʒớgu máðra áman bʒólεt.
(is noöne my mother as good)
I am not as pretty as she.
Ec ʒơg pul lεxέt pan dið.
(am i she much less pretty)
He is the unluckiest man I have ever seen.
Ec pul ul lað pálan crơlx calcáð cwarþ εn culóm ʒơg.
(is he the man least lucky which have ever see i)
New Words
| dið | pretty, beautiful |
| lað | man, person |
| εn | ever |
Saturday, August 25, 2001
04.20.01.08.25.16.24
Now, to continue. Some new words for the lexicon. I’m kiping these from my nifty little welsh dictionary, but i’m trying to avoid using the same meanings. I’m just taking words and plugging them into definitions that suit them, or in some cases doing some free association. I am going to start with words already extant in the main lexicon so the malt§égȡ column doesn’t look quite so barren.
| again | εlέm |
| against | -arác |
| air | fálasà |
| almost | cwirþ |
| alone | amát |
| already | dýdu |
| always | gwéðul |
| amount | mára |
| answer | péxεd |
| any | ðέfni |
| arm | tεlp |
| ask | ðεlέx |
| at all | (blεg) parúc |
| away | nέt§ni |
| back | nem |
| bad | xrơx |
| barely | iláux |
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