This started as a response to the Thimbleful Thursday 400 word prompt "ice queen" but at 952 word I've well and truly tossed away that limit. This story does not follow on directly from As Good A Place To Start As Any.... but it is a direct consequence of that meeting.

“You were the captain of the Ojijrukar,” said the tall woman with the flawless ( Read more... )

This world came out of my languary posts which begin to explore this setting's lingua franca, 'Allspeak ( Read more... )

This comes out of Languary, from which I have a number of interrelated pieces in my head that I have mostly no idea of how they relate to each other or the order they should be in. These two characters come to us courtesy of wyld_dandelyon.

The two women were in a dark, shutdown data hub. The control panels were dead, the overhead view screens only blank ( Read more... )

Once you and I know who we each are, the next thing we want to do is talk about other people and that is why we need the third person. ‘Allspeak’ has four third person singular pronouns and two plural ones. All nouns are presumed to be in the third person until proven otherwise. Thus we have:

The singular third person pronouns are:

Subjective     ( Read more... )

Now we can ask questions, including a couple of polite greetings, but what we really want to know when we meet someone for the first time is who they are.

We already know that:

chotuy = Who are you? (unfamiliar person)

This might get you a name but it might also get you an answer along the lines of, “I’m here to fix the air-conditioning,” which is ( Read more... )

This was meant to be my Day 4 post but things obviously took a lot longer to work out and explain than I expected. Also the body insists on sleeping, very inconvenient of it.

Now there is someone other than ourselves to talk to, we can ask questions for someone else to answer. For that we need some form of interrogative.

One of the ways ‘Allspeak ( Read more... )

Finally, my third Languary post. I realised that I was tying myself up in knots trying to write every thing out, so here we are:

We now move to people who aren’t us with the second person.

The creators of ‘Allspeak’ divided the people to whom one might be speaking directly into the familiar, the unfamiliar, and those with whom it is impossible to ( Read more... )

So here we go with Day 2 of Languary.

Talking about the first person singular forms for verbs brings up the issue of pronouns.

The first person singular pronouns are:

Subjective       Objective               Possessive adjective     Reflexive

hay /heɪ/         hayer /heɪɜ/           haym /heɪm/                 hayerhay /heɪɜheɪ/

There are two first ( Read more... )

I have decided to attempt Languary, which is explained here http://languary.tumblr.com/ .  For this exercise, I'm spawning a new universe for which I have notes.  The language I'm working on is the good old role playing favourite of "Standard".  Its actual name means "Allspeak" but I don't know how to say that yet....

So let's begin.

tark /tak ( Read more... )