Dorfish For Dummies (Dwarf Fortress inspired conlanging)
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? Anguipes The Great Whore That Sitteth Upon Many Waters
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Dwarf Fortress is an insane, perpetually alpha roguelike/adventure/construction/short bearded psychopath simulator game that some of you may have heard of.  It features a* simple naming language that allows you to randomly generate or construct such names as Bomrek Stettad "The Whips of Taxing", Vúshatîs "Hotstakes", and of course Koganusân "Boatmurdered".

Obviously a simple naming language is Not Good Enough, so I made improvements.  Initially I had a look at the language as it was to try and get some idea of the phonology.  Then I accidentally a grammar (still roughly in places and poorly formatted, but relatively complete and including a Babel Text).

Help me tidy up and finish off this shit so I can go back to doing real conlanging.

*Actually four (Dwarf, Elf, Human and Goblin), but they are all relexes of each other.

? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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I salute you.

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? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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, Kelatetía, Terminus
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Are you still looking for help with this? Anything in particular?
? Anguipes The Great Whore That Sitteth Upon Many Waters
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quoting Rhetorica:
Are you still looking for help with this? Anything in particular?

Any comments would be appreciated - opinions on what I've got, pointing out anything I've missed, layout, spelling mistakes, whatever .  However, there is a new draft

Some areas of concern:

The phonemic values of the vowels were thrown together quickly and I wouldn't mind completely overhauling them
Should I add a phonemic transcription to the glosses?
"Common grammatical prefixes" is a shitty name for that section
Not entirely happy with my negation strategies
Need to sort out table formatting/page break placement/other prettifying stuff
Stupid unhelpful prefix lists are stupid and unhelpful
Need ideas for a suitably dorfy number system
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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, Kelatetía, Koitra, Illera
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quoting Anguipes:
However, there is a new draft!

This really didn't get the attention it deserved when it appeared. (Stupid summer workload.) If I'm not mistaken this was a huge improvement over the first draft you put out, though in four months I don't remember it too well. I love the phonetic texture you produced; it's very consistent with the original roots inventory and does a good job of respecting the Tolkien influences secretly powering everything.

For numbers, I might recommend something that speaks to dorfish engineering and the love of geometry—something deeply practical with irregular-but-convenient bases like the Imperial measurement system. ... Of course, you've been gone for like a month, so who knows if you'll ever see this!
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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, 侯, Basel, Switzerland
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eh she recently surfaced from the brackish waters of IRC so she will probably
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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, Kelatetía, Koitra, Illera
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Yes. Crossing fingers on that one.
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, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia
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Her Internets were broke and all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put them back together again.

Then they got better.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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Here's hoping! She's still not been back on here, though. We'll need to lure her the next time she's around.