So last night, when I was trying to get to sleep, I was instead thinking about rituals invoking the 9 Yahgahn elements and directions. I was even pointing at the different directions. While making gestures for Within, Without, and The All, something struck me about these gestures, and I started thinking about deaf Ah'Koi Bahnis and an AKB version ( Read more... )

I wrote a poem for my mom yesterday, for Mother's Day. I wrote it in Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog, and thus it only rhymes in TPNN. Took a lot more time than sending an e-card would have, so I hope she appreciates it. (Especially with the translation I supplied ( Read more... )

One area of TPNN I'd neglected was numbers. I had only 1 through 10 listed on the web page, and still do. (Not sure when I'll update the TPNN dictionary page.) But I was expanding the TPNN numerals last night, since I wanted to come up with some TPNN terms for measures of distance in space. While doing so, I got frustrated with the word for ten, ( Read more... )

A prayer for the good health of a friend, who is running a fever ( Read more... )

Over ten years ago, I started to create the Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog language, a trade language for my Traipah culture that is supposed to be a conlang even in that universe. But I've encountered problems with it. The rules of the language are basically a mix of English and Spanish rules (mostly English), and I started coming up with words in some really ( Read more... )

I think I found something new to add to prayers, without meaning to. I was composing a prayer for a friend, thinking about how "Sahn-kia, Koh Soh La Kohrain," AKA "Many-thanks, You Are The All," is a prayer of gratitude, because Conversations With God says that a prayer of gratitude for what you know will happen. Which led to a thought of "So mote ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I was complaining to myself about people being "in the way," of course meaning they were being obstacles. The part of myself that is Ah'Koi Bahnis but is not as acclimated as Fayanora is to Earth expressions gave me this "WTF?" feeling when I said that. I poked at it a little and got a data-burst that basically contained another ( Read more... )

On Farscape, there's a character named Pilot. He is, well, the pilot of Moya. Now, Moya is a living ship, and Pilot is bonded to her... telepathically bonded. His species has an astonishing level of multitasking ability, a skill I covet. His native language is also so complex that the translator microbes can't translate it unless he's using very ( Read more... )

NOTE: Translating this song into into TPNN was very difficult. Had to make up a couple words because there are apparently still gaps in the language. Plus, a literal translation into TPNN wasn't possible, as the words are often longer than English words or the sounds don't fit with each other when translated literally. So from the beginning, I had ( Read more... )

      Odd the kinds of things one thinks about when one has a hobby in linguistics. I was thinking, earlier today, about some of the words in my constructed language Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog (TPNN), specifically of the context of them, and how some don't translate directly into English. Take the word "ihl," for example. It means "so." But in my practice ( Read more... )