The two languages I want to learn next, Gaelic and Russian, are insane. Not just in their orthography, although they're both private nightmares in that way (seriously, how can you get tahpuh lee from tapadh leat?), but also in things like adding random letter infixes in even more random places. And here I thought Latin was evil ( Read more... )

The conlangs: Conlang 4 is still on hold, but I've been working on 5 (which I started this spring around the same time as 4) and thinking of inserting it into an old story from high school. I'm referencing the history in Project Two in my userinfo. Using stuff from Zompist's files, I've got a tiny vocabulary of less than one hundred words that ( Read more... )

I'm attempting to make a nice little entry about the conlang, but I'm running into stickiness with how to write out the available sounds, which really was my first step in its creation. I have to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and no one can explain on their website what the various symbols mean; you have to listen to someone say ( Read more... )

Okay, ateji, welcome to LiveJournal. It's a famous place around the Internet, so why didn't you join sooner? No good reason, I suppose.

Statement of PurposeThis is officially where I'll talk about the conlang I chose to create several days ago. Since I have background in three languages, one fluent and two not quite so fluent, but I have no ( Read more... )