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2. General Notes
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This is an incomprehensible jumble of notes for myself. You can read through them if you dare. Most of the info here will be presented MUCH neater in separate articles later on, once it's more complete. Things here are VERY much so in progress, and may change wildly.
GETTING REWORKED ACTUALLY
Phonology / Syllables:
- 15 consonants, 5 vowels. that is IT.
- vowels CAN be marked for stress (1 per word) but they don't have to be, even if non-standard. technically though, unmarked defaults to penultimate stress.
- I is pronounced ih unless word final, where it becomes ee. accented í where the accent is not necessary is also ee
Lexicon:
- basic words are based loosely on english counterparts, but prefixes will make more complex words different. adjectives like giant, enormous, humongous, etc, would just be 'very-big' or 'very-very-big' (reduplicating prefixes for emphasis/intensifying is fine). 'giant' as a noun would probs be different, altho it could just be inferred by context.
- honestly lexical simplification is a big thing, because english is AWFUL about having a million different synonyms, including ones with next to no difference in even connotation. there's no difference between humongous and enormous unless you get extremely technical, and you can fight me to the death about it.
Grammar:
- probs no grammar markers (special noun marker, verb marker, etc). it's gotta be basically still english, where everything is obtuse and contextual and mostly just memorized.
- prefixes just generally replace prepositions, or consolidate multiple synonymous english prefixes (i.e. in-, im-, dis-, un-).
- plurals are suffixes. if word ends in vowel, add -s. if word ends in consonant, add -es. similar to english.
- possession is just the suffixes -z or -ez
- copula dropping with adjectives only. i am good -> a (is) gud; but with nouns, verbs, etc: i am a man -> a is man. the "is" isn't optional. cannot drop in questions, under any circumstance. negative statements that otherwise meet these requirements still drop copula.
Verbs:
- tenses are often suffixes.
- present simple doesn't exist. present continuous ends w/ -in or -n.
- past ends with -t or -et.
- future isn't suffix, but preceded by word "uíl". "uíl kal" i will call vs "uíl kal-et" i will (have) called
- conditional structure is "[subject] uód [verb]"
- past participle is -n or -en
Questions:
- polar questions use subject/verb reversal, similar to english. i.e. i am gay -> a (is) ge; am i gay? -> is a ge? copula dropping does NOT apply.
- wh-questions don't reverse and don't drop copula. the wh-word is placed in place of the missing information; who is he? -> i is hu?
Numbers:
- uán tu śrí fo fav siś seven et nan ten (ziro)
- uses a very japanese way of structuring numbers. instead of new words for every new set of tens (twenty, thirty, forty, etc), it just says two-ten, three-ten, four-ten, etc. thus: tu-ten, śrí-ten, fo-ten.
- first places are added after another hyphen. i.e. 21, 48, 56: tu-ten-uán, fo-ten-et, fav-ten-siś. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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