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Designing a language for a short story (may become a novel).
Any ideas?

>> No.2617689

>Portuguêse
What the fuck is that?

>> No.2617692

u shld tlk lik dis bb ;o

>> No.2617695

Compare latin case endings with japanese postpostions, e.g. cattus/catti versus neko/neko no (i.e. cat/of the cat~the cat's.) Don't bother creating some ridiculously complex agglutinating language when it can be simplified with postpositions.
Consider a similar policy with verb conjugation, e.g. having a separate tag syllable after the verb instead of modifying the verb (e.g. 's' modifying 'eat' in 'He eats here very other day.')

>> No.2617696

>>2617689
thats brazillian bro

>> No.2617698

>>2617695
*every

>> No.2617715

>>2617696
Brazilians call their language "português".
Portuguese is its name in english. I don't know what the fuck "portuguêse" is.

>> No.2617724

l33t 5p34k

>> No.2617753

Nigger is the prefix of every word.

>> No.2617761

>>2617753
This, but change it to nignog

>> No.2617843

>>2617695
>latin
>agglutinating
>の
>postposition

>> No.2617945

>>2617677
Read this:
http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/questions-answered-invented-languages/

then read her book. I looked for it some time ago in the internet but cudn't find a decent version. I found a scanned version that failed to include all the special characters used thruout the book.

>> No.2617956
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2617956

>>2617753
Niggernigger niggeris niggeryou niggerserious?

>> No.2618288

If you're designing it just as an aesthetic element in your story, then designing a cypher is the easiest. If you're trying to go full on Tolkien, though, good luck.

omniglot.com has a display of invented scripts that can be useful for considering how you want your language to look.

>> No.2618333

>>2617945
Ok, here's a mind blowing concept which will have NEVER occurred to you. Ok?

Let's take this one really slow, we don't want to shock anyone. How about, no, what if I told you that you could /literally/ buy the book and have it delivered to your door?

Deep breaths.

>> No.2618358

Well, this is arbitrary as fuck, but this is now my new project.
I'm in a Spanish class. As I learn new aspects to Spanish, I'll invent some goofy-ass sounds to replace the present ones, and simplify stupid grammar.

I had too much free time anyway.

>> No.2618421

>>2618333
I dislike fysical books. Not worth the money. Too bothersome to quote from. Etc.

No. There are far too many interesting things to read that are freely available.

>> No.2618451

>>2618421
Well, not to nitpick, but with an e-reader, every book is freely available. *nudge nudge*

>> No.2618471

>>2617956

henceforth known as nigger latin