What have you accomplished today?

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quinterbeck wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 4:56 am
doctor shark wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 6:10 pm Also, related to the latest money I've been sharing, I slightly revamped the numbers for the Oshaharu language and decided to do a small write-up on them. I've been a bit loath to share due to certain past experiences, but I guess I mind less now that the language is a bit better developed.
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There are a few irregularities in the formation of numbers, though it fundamentally is a system that combines Mayan base 5/20 and the western base 10/100 systems. Notably, the names for each of the key numbers, 1, 5, and 20, have additional meanings: ko (1) also means digit; (5) hand or foot; and shúj (20) body.
You may also have noticed that Oshaharu has two flavors of script: the more loopy script which I've previously posted, more commonly used in handwriting, and this blockier version that appears more in printing and typing.
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Ooh! I want to guess some of the gaps in the numbers! This is very nice btw
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13 tsje'mjàjko'e
14 tsje'mjàj'aj'e
18 mjàmjà'aj (or maybe pá'mjàjmjà'e?)
19 tsjetsjejmjà'e (this one is a wild guess, I can see quite a few possibilities)
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And these are, indeed, correct, but the most commonly used forms are based on the secondary unit of five. (Poetic and artistic forms would use the ones you suggested, especially mjàmjà'áj for 18. Same with 50 being, sometimes, pápá'áj, but that form is somewhat disfavored because of the three tone up-steps, and 75 being pápámjà.)
I also romanized some of the numbers with a small typo: 12 is tsjemjà, without a glottal stop (but it's correct in the Oshaharan script).

As the main counting unit is five, many of these are based on that:
13: shújpòjmjà'e
14: shújpòjtsje'e
18: pámjàjmjà'e (correct!)
19: pámjàjtsje'e
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Assemblée Française, soon just a memory...
right (men wanting to do as done in the past...)
left (men wanting to do as done in the future...)
centre (men wanting to do as done in the present...)
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Thanks to my new laptop, I have brought my sound-change applier into the 20th century with modern programming techniques and methods.
"But he had reckoned without my narrative powers! With one bound I narrated myself up the wall and into the bathroom, where I transformed him into a freestanding sink unit.

We washed our hands of him, and lived happily ever after."
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alice wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 2:59 pm Thanks to my new laptop, I have brought my sound-change applier into the 20th century with modern programming techniques and methods.
It ran on Analytical Engines before?

Anyway, congratulations!
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Since last time I wrote in this thread I have done no conlanging until last last Sunday when I did a tiny bit and then last Sunday again. I have finished reformatting the dictionary of Liu and I've written a great deal about when the progressive aspect is and isn't used. Maybe I'll post that on the forum when it's finished. I also need to write a much better explanation of the perfect aspect, but that one's very basic, so it shouldn't be hard.
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Finished posting my Tautisca dictionary at Anthologica.
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I traded in my four-gender system for an animate/inanimate binary with declension classes.

ʾannam "mother" and ʾaddam "father" exemplify the a-stem nouns:
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ʾannazim "grandmother, female ancestor" and ʾaddazim "grandfather, male ancestor" exemplify the i-stem nouns:
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Me love money.
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Made a few changes to the lower notes, but here they all are. Values range from 1 ný (USD 0.07 officially) to 100 pjéw (USD 139.40 officially; USD ~5 unofficially/on the black market).
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doctor shark wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 4:48 pm Me love money.
you are a master at making it so well.
an excellent range; thank you for putting in USD equivilents.
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Is this a new currency for a new country?
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keenir wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 5:34 pm
doctor shark wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 4:48 pm Me love money.
you are a master at making it so well.
an excellent range; thank you for putting in USD equivilents.
Thank you; I try my best. :)
hwhatting wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:18 am Is this a new currency for a new country?
It's one that's been in the works for a while and that's a bit still in-development (Oshaharu, a socialist-oriented country east of Telemor). To be honest, I also sometimes make up countries on a whim (and conlangs) just for new options for making banknotes and coins. :P
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Came up with a series of sentences to demonstrate basic Vrkhazhian syntax:

Too much work to gloss every sentence, so I just have this overarching gloss since they all involve the same words:

sekmēsi = raise_up-3sg
āsi = 3sg.NOM (affirmative)
tussi = 3sg.NOM (negative)
kīya = 3sg.OBL
lumbim = woman-AN.NOM.SG
simbis = child-AN.ACC.SG
utu = negative marker
ri = question marker
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Affirmative Declarative:
1.a) sekmēsi kīya
1.b) āsi sekmēsi kīya
1.c) kīya sekmēsi
1.d) sekmēsi lumbim simbis
1.e) āsi sekmēsi lumbim simbis
1.f) kīya sekmēsi lumbim simbis

Affirmative Interrogative:
2.a) sekmēsi=ri kīya?
2.b) āsi=ri sekmēsi kīya?
2.c) kīya=ri sekmēsi?
2.d) sekmēsi=ri lumbim simbis?
2.e) āsi=ri sekmēsi lumbim simbis?
2.f) kīya=ri sekmēsi lumbim simbis?

Negative Declarative:
3.a) sekmēsi utu kīya
3.b) tussi sekmēsi utu kīya
3.c) kīya sekmēsi utu
3.d) sekmēsi utu lumbin simbis
3.e) tussi sekmēsi utu lumbim simbis
3.f) kīya sekmēsi utu lumbim simbis

Negative Interrogative:
4.a) sekmēsi=ri utu kīya?
4.b) tussi=ri sekmēsi utu kīya?
4.c) kīya=ri sekmēsi utu?
4.d) sekmēsi=ri utu lumbim simbis?
4.e) tussi=ri sekmēsi utu lumbim simbis?
4.f) kīya=ri sekmēsi utu lumbim simbis?
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doctor shark wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 3:27 am It's one that's been in the works for a while and that's a bit still in-development (Oshaharu, a socialist-oriented country east of Telemor). To be honest, I also sometimes make up countries on a whim (and conlangs) just for new options for making banknotes and coins. :P
As good a reason for conlanging as any other :-)
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Conlang Letter Soup...

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It seems that the shape of the pasta influences its taste,
what would your favorite conlang letter soup...
(here with "Comforting Broth" phasatuwkawlinmon letters (liquid warm and pleasant to drink))
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Nice!
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xxx wrote: Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:58 am It seems that the shape of the pasta influences its taste,
what would your favorite conlang letter soup...
(here with "Comforting Broth" 3SDL letters (liquid warm and pleasant to drink))
very impressive.

{kidding} I won't even guess how long it took you to carve the tofu that finely.
{ /kidding }

seriously, great work.
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Today I've finished my first Translation Relay!
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Morkai5 wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2025 3:53 am Today I've finished my first Translation Relay!
Congratulations!
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3SDL U-Archaeology, discovery of the first column of the law, near Glozel...

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xxx wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 4:50 pm Image
very very cool. nice work.
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