Zompist Bboard Again

i sat down last night and forced myself to algorithmically generate a small initial lexicon that is, deliberately, phonotactically ugly as hell, no tinkering with sound changes allowed yet. so far i have managed to avoid getting distracted until 3am by fiddling with the phonotactics and instead got ...

usually the process goes phonology > come up with an initial lexicon > ...oh god i forgot i hate doing initial lexicon > tinker with phonotactics for three months > never get around to syntax starting with something randomly generated might do the trick if i'm very strict with myself, thanks for the...

I keep getting stuck or losing steam on my conlang attempts before I actually get to the point of starting to figure out grammar, and I'm thinking it might help to try to do, like, a 7-day challenge or something to force me out of being such a goddamn perfectionist. Do y'all have any resources or ad...

In addition to joining this forum (hi everyone!), yesterday and today I restarted the lexicon for my proto-language for the third time and I think I have something I actually like and will stick with this time :)