So, before I get started, let me just say that I joined Pillowfort as kayeboesme. It is an interesting place, like if LiveJournal and Reddit had a technology child, but very similar to any other social media site out there. I wrote a conlang post to test how IPA performed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A thought occurred to me: If I introduced my conlang on Pillowfort, how would I refer to Pillowfort? <\/em>The word fort <\/em>doesn’t translate well because forts are generally where soldiers who kill other people are kept. They’re not associated with childhood pillow houses in a living room. Someone would first have to explain what that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the sake of argument, though, it would be translated literally as \u1e96eaza jut ful e<\/strong> \/\u0127\u025b\u0361\u0252\u0308.\u02c8z\u0251 \u0292yt\u032a fyl \u025b\/, indoor place composed of pillows<\/em>. Maybe it would eventually become \u1e96eajuta<\/strong> \/\u0127\u025b\u0361\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u0292yt\u032a.\u02cc\u0251\/ from \u1e96eaz + jut + a<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \/z\/ and \/\u0292\/ would merge into \/\u0292\/. The -a<\/strong> is an intensifying particle added to nouns, which is how words like kta <\/strong>(light<\/em>) become ktaa<\/strong> (knowledge<\/em>). There’s an example below of how ktaa <\/strong>is pronounced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tat<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u0251t\u032a\/. Pipe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tat \u1e96ezn<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u0251t\u032a \u0127\u025bz.\u02c8n\u0329\/, plumbing system, usually of a residential home.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tat \u1e96eazn<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u0251t\u032a \u0127\u025b\u0361\u0252\u0308z.\u02c8n\u0329\/, plumbing, generic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tat \u1e96ezn ktuto ba siub.<\/strong> I also did a lot of work on pronouns. I decided that there is a singular\/dual\/plural system with them. These are most of the pronouns; there are additional ones that are occasionally used because the pronoun system is semi-open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third person singular Third person dual Third person plural Kte<\/strong> \/kt\u025b\/, Warmth.<\/em> Ktea<\/strong> \/kt\u0259.\u02c8\u0251\/, heat<\/em>. Kten <\/strong>\/kt\u025bn\/, warm<\/em>. Ktean<\/strong> \/kt\u0259.\u02c8\u0251n\/, hot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Teb<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u025bb\/, Coolness.<\/em> Teba<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u0259.\u02c8b\u0251\/, cold. <\/em>Tebn<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u0259b.\u02c8n\u0329\/, cool<\/em>. Teban<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u0259.\u02c8b\u0251n\/, cold.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \/t\u032a\u0259.\u02c8b\u0251n t\u032a\u0259l.t\u032ay ys \u025b\u0361i \u0259\u03b2.\u02c8\u0251\u027e.\u02cci \u0127\u025bz.\u02c8n\u0329\/ Te<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u025b\/. Periphery<\/em>. Ten<\/strong> \/t\u032a\u025bn\/, peripheral<\/em>. Idiomatically, indicates unimportance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Te ei ne\u00f0 rum kteafh. <\/strong> Vuru<\/strong> \/vy.\u02c8\u00f0y\/. Eating utensil. <\/em>Vuru ven<\/strong> \/vy.\u02c8\u00f0y v\u025bn\/, stick used for picking up food<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vuru e\u1e25<\/strong> \/vy.\u02c8\u00f0y \u025b\u0294\/, spork<\/em>, slang term, lit. one utensil<\/em>. Spork<\/em> is biu\u00f0<\/em> \/bi\u0361y\u00f0\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ktaru<\/strong> \/kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y\/. Window<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ktaru lloktn <\/strong>\/kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y \u026cokt.\u02c8n\u0329\/, a window that looks upon an inner temple’s icons where the public may pray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ktaru kten<\/strong> \/kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y kt\u025bn\/, transparent solar power windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kta\u00f0u<\/strong> \/kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y\/. Book<\/em>. Kta\u00f0u ene\u00f0<\/strong> \/kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y \u0259n.\u02c8\u025b\u00f0\/, cookbook<\/em>. Kta\u00f0u lloktn<\/strong> \/kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y \u026cokt.\u02c8n\u0329\/, sacred text.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ifhea lloktn sak ei kta\u00f0u eze.<\/strong> Incidentally, these words are not completely non-distinguishable. Plurals are formed with particles. Ktaru ful<\/strong> means the windows<\/em>. Kta\u00f0u eze<\/strong> means the knowable quantity of books<\/em>. (If you visited the temple, you could count them.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Eze<\/strong> is a human pluralizer, which books take for a variety of flowery cultural reasons. Vusn ei kta\u00f0u me<\/strong> uses me<\/em>, the generic human plural. It means, Books are important.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Animates receive other pluralizers. There are no cats on Ameisa, but for argument’s sake, let’s say someone brought cats there. Let’s say ket<\/strong> became the word for cat<\/em> (pronounced \/k\u00e6t\/ in Standard American English\/SAE) because \/k\u025bt\u032a\/ is close, and the vowel in SAE cat<\/em> isn’t present in Eamaru. Bufhi sak ei ket ba<\/strong>, the cats are in the apartment.<\/em> Jut ful maso ket me\u00f0a<\/strong>, cats like pillows<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiu\u00f0or<\/strong> \/t\u032ai\u0361y.\u02c8\u00f0o\u027e\/. To explain, to describe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiu\u00f0or ktaa-mi<\/strong> \/t\u032ai\u0361y.\u02c8\u00f0o\u027e kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u0251-\u02ccmi\/, to instruct, to teach<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rim kta\u00f0u lloktn fa tiu\u00f0o ktaa-mi kau zei.<\/strong> Bhekor<\/strong> \/\u03b2\u0259.\u02c8ko\u027e\/, to give an account [of], describe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Uta bheko bavo dei<\/em>.<\/strong> The above is non-reflexive. To make something about your<\/em> (the subject’s) account-giving and not the topic<\/em> about which you are giving an account, the reflexive pronoun is used. In this case, that is sala<\/strong>, they themselves.<\/em> It’s the version of the plural used for 3+ people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bheko \u00f0a\u1e25av sala.<\/strong> Updates from Days 8-14 of #Lexember. This includes more content than Twitter for #eamarubhe. 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\/t\u032a\u0251t\u032a \u0127\u025bz.\u02c8n\u0329 kty.\u02c8to b\u0251 si\u0361yb\/
They broke the house’s plumbing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>S\/O\/IO: za<\/strong> \/z\u0251\/
Refl: zaur<\/strong> \/z\u0251\u0361y\u027e\/
Emph. refl: zalva<\/strong> \/z\u0252\u0308l.\u02c8v\u0251\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>S\/O\/IO: zei<\/strong> \/z\u025b\u0361i\/
Refl: zar<\/strong> \/z\u0251\u027e\/
Emph. Refl: zeila<\/strong> \/z\u025b\u0361i.\u02c8l\u0251\/
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>S\/O\/IO: siub<\/strong> \/si\u0361yb\/
Refl: sar<\/strong> \/s\u0251\u027e\/
Emph. Refl: sala<\/strong> \/s\u0252\u0308.\u02c8l\u0251\/<\/p>\n\n\n\nDay Nine.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Teban teltu us ei ebhari \u1e96ezn.<\/strong>
The sun is cold in winter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nDay Ten.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\/t\u032a\u025b \u025b\u0361i n\u025b\u00f0 \u00f0ym kt\u025b\u0361\u0252\u0308\u0278\/
Electricity is not unimportant.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nDay Eleven.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Day Twelve.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
i.\u02c8\u0278\u025b\u0361\u0252\u0308 \u026cokt.\u02c8n\u0329 s\u0251k \u025b\u0361i kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y \u0259.\u02c8z\u025b
The books are located in the temple.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nDay Thirteen.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u027eim kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u00f0y \u026cokt.\u02c8n\u0329 f\u0251 t\u032ai\u0361y.\u02c8\u00f0o kt\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u0251-\u02ccmi k\u0252\u0308\u0361y z\u025b\u0361i
Those two have been teaching me from sacred texts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nDay Fourteen.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\/y.\u02c8t\u032a\u0251 \u03b2\u0259.\u02c8ko b\u0252\u0308.\u02c8vo d\u025b\u0361i\/
You two described the novel thing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/\u03b2\u0259.\u02c8ko \u00f0\u0252\u0308.\u02c8\u0294\u0251v s\u0252\u0308.\u02c8l\u0251\/
I expect they’ll give an account.<\/em>
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