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[gwalla]

I've been intending to post about my conlangs for ages now. About time I did so

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[derakon]

Ahh, conlangs. I had a project once to make one...my basic premise for the grammar was to throw out strict word orderings and use grammatical syllables to indicate the "type" of a word. So each word could be a noun, a verb, or an adjective/adverb, depending on usage. E.g. the "friend" word could be m'kali, n'kali, or s'kali, meaning "a friend", "to befriend", or "friendly", respectively. And depending on how you wanted to have the emphasis, you could go from "I befriended that rock" to "I befriended that rock" to "I befriended that rock" all just by varying the word order (most important concept comes first in the sentence).

I got a bit bogged down in trying to work out subphrases, and then got distracted by something else. I should re-create the script I had for the language though; it was pretty nifty.

[gwalla]

Esperanto claims to do the same WRT word classes. It doesn't really work, though, or at least it's very irregular.