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The original source, here. Terrible suggestions, wonderful blog.
Oh, c'mon, let's use it for serious conlaging purposes. Why could go hrong?
#83
"A conlang that only uses suggestions off this blog."
Your suggestions are orders. Let's start.
#119
"Make a language where the number words are /i/, /iː/, /iːː/, /iv/, etc."
Hmm, sexy. For a protolang, maybe, no? And then I could work more realistic words from that. I need to think how I'll explain these [i i: i:
and [vi vi: vi:.
#72
"Express “in front of” with a prefix, “behind” with a suffix, and “within” with an infix."
Of course. Rational and elegant. No more words needed.
#73
"Instead of having adjectives agree with nouns for grammatical gender, try classifying nouns based on grammatical sexuality."
Yes, although this can be interpreted in different ways. On the other hand, one derivation could be nouns classified according to how sexual the meaning or derived connotations are. In a scale of five perhaps: innocent-asexual, eroticosensual, horny, pervert, hardporn-like.
#49
"Phonemic bidental fricatives."
This is so nice I may add it to Mintani, a language with an unusual phoneme inventory. After all it was a language spoken by telepathic gods, so no problemo.
#10
"Create a phonology for your conlang based in the symbols of the Periodic Table as if they were X-Sampa. Fe /ɱe/, H /ɥ/, Zr /ʒr/, Uus /ʊus/, Kr /ɬr/, etc.
AN: And name substances like this too. Water, as H2O, would thus be /ɥøɔ/."
Absolutely yes to all that.
#31
"A language with just two genders: food and not-food"
Actually, that is no bullshit. It may work for a demon language I have in mind... They ate humans and other animals, so...
#107
"To give flavor to your language, make words for oddly specific concepts like “the moment when someone asks you a question, and you are eating, but have not sufficiently chewed the food in your mouth to swallow it, and so you must wait awkwardly before responding” or “objects with sentimental value that were stolen by an angry ex, and are now being offered back to you because that ex’s new significant other wants you not to be angry with them”"
Oh well, that one is always a must, no? I mean, at least some examples per conlang doesn't hurt.
#118
"A conlang that has no present tense, because everything happens slightly in the future or the past."
And that one makes so much sense that it would be a crime not to apply it.
#184
"A reverse abuguida- that is, the script has vowels whose diacritics indicate consonants.
E.g.
<aîò ëéà ìu> = /tarino kesena nitu/"
That is an interesting idea, actually. If properly worked, it could give an interesting system, especially interesting with a minimal set of consonants.
Oh, c'mon, let's use it for serious conlaging purposes. Why could go hrong?
#83
"A conlang that only uses suggestions off this blog."
Your suggestions are orders. Let's start.
#119
"Make a language where the number words are /i/, /iː/, /iːː/, /iv/, etc."
Hmm, sexy. For a protolang, maybe, no? And then I could work more realistic words from that. I need to think how I'll explain these [i i: i:
and [vi vi: vi:.#72
"Express “in front of” with a prefix, “behind” with a suffix, and “within” with an infix."
Of course. Rational and elegant. No more words needed.
#73
"Instead of having adjectives agree with nouns for grammatical gender, try classifying nouns based on grammatical sexuality."
Yes, although this can be interpreted in different ways. On the other hand, one derivation could be nouns classified according to how sexual the meaning or derived connotations are. In a scale of five perhaps: innocent-asexual, eroticosensual, horny, pervert, hardporn-like.
#49
"Phonemic bidental fricatives."
This is so nice I may add it to Mintani, a language with an unusual phoneme inventory. After all it was a language spoken by telepathic gods, so no problemo.
#10
"Create a phonology for your conlang based in the symbols of the Periodic Table as if they were X-Sampa. Fe /ɱe/, H /ɥ/, Zr /ʒr/, Uus /ʊus/, Kr /ɬr/, etc.
AN: And name substances like this too. Water, as H2O, would thus be /ɥøɔ/."
Absolutely yes to all that.
#31
"A language with just two genders: food and not-food"
Actually, that is no bullshit. It may work for a demon language I have in mind... They ate humans and other animals, so...
#107
"To give flavor to your language, make words for oddly specific concepts like “the moment when someone asks you a question, and you are eating, but have not sufficiently chewed the food in your mouth to swallow it, and so you must wait awkwardly before responding” or “objects with sentimental value that were stolen by an angry ex, and are now being offered back to you because that ex’s new significant other wants you not to be angry with them”"
Oh well, that one is always a must, no? I mean, at least some examples per conlang doesn't hurt.
#118
"A conlang that has no present tense, because everything happens slightly in the future or the past."
And that one makes so much sense that it would be a crime not to apply it.
#184
"A reverse abuguida- that is, the script has vowels whose diacritics indicate consonants.
E.g.
<aîò ëéà ìu> = /tarino kesena nitu/"
That is an interesting idea, actually. If properly worked, it could give an interesting system, especially interesting with a minimal set of consonants.