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OK so I'm at school, so I'm going to just use an IPA keyboard & write in IPA, because plain text with no diacritics... is difficult to even read. Anyways, the stuff I'm working on is still v WIP, but we have e.g.

-shue /ʃy/ "can"  might be better glossed as something vaguer like deontic possibility, since I think it's going to be a bit more broad than English. We'll see. It's strictly deontic/situational, too.

I have some ideas about maybe shifting this around etc etc. It's fairly likely I'll add at least one more category of marking on the verb or verb-particle-thing (actually... two categories.), and also fairly likely that the main verb will get another thing by the end of this.

But yeah, Mezhat is getting... very... agglutinative.

... if I set up one of the computers at school w/ a german keyboard will the librarian ppl track me down and kill me?

so it's the first day of classes and i cannot read my syllabuses. like almost at all. they're completely blurry, im sort of freaking out.

text on the computer is still mostly okay but the high-contrast freaking papers they hand out are going to kill me. im screwed. what even is this. the fuck makes it so u cannot read printed text what the fuck

testing my verb nesting idea! (... I don't remember the term for this and it's 11 pm so I am going to call it verb nesting, yes)

ohhh, the terminology i was looking for wrt the con sign lang was probably "verbs are a closed class." a very similar-looking thing occurs in Japanese.

... I used to do an adjective/noun word order reshuffle for passives? (i.e. "known bird" vs "knowing bird" was a word order difference) and I could...?

And I'd feel super comfortable with it since my sentences are bookended with the tense/aspect/formality/negation particle, which would switch out with the verb. For adjectives, etśe kef would probably be 'known fish' and kef etśe 'knowing fish', so opposite order technically but same head-directionality, I believe. (My motivations for having NAdj be standard are mainly aesthetic, though).

(My English translations are ofc completely ignoring the fact that all of the nouns here may or may or may not be plural bc they're unmarked).

!! I have found a phonotactics database! ... its interface looks eerily familiar, so perhaps I re-found it. Anyways hopefully this will have the info I want.

euletoaster hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet:… Esperanto is nice in theory, but the idea of...

Ha, that could work! Yeah, the thing about introducing new pronouns is it is a pain to get ppl to recognize them widely, & having to work around all of that for an auxlang seems like a bit much for me. But I have seen discussions about coining pronouns to fix it up! 

If Esperanto underwent significant fixes wrt both of the gender issues (the weirdly-gendered nouns and the gendered pronouns) and those became very common/standard then I would certainly give it a look, but I think it's... not super probable? If you want to try then I certanly wish you luck! 

Currently removing plural marking from almost everything in Meśät. I suspect this is going to end with plural marking as an optional post- or preposition only available for human or human & animate class nouns, tbqh. 1st person pronouns may be obligatorily marked, though? IDK.

Also considering tightening up the phonotactics? I need to find more examples of natlangs that are somewhere in between Italian and German wrt permitted syllable codas. Korean is one good example, but -- are fricatives in the coda actually less likely than unvoiced stops, then, or...?

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Yeahh god it's just... why even.