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answer my music questions boy. 20, 15, and 9 💚

HELLO sorry this is late but thank yooooouuuuuuuuuuuuu

9. favourite lyrics of your #1 song

do i have to do this all over again by the monkees. there aren't many lyrics in this song and they all fuck me up, but verse 2 stands out.

15. most danceable track

andrew in drag by the magnetic fields & the second half of eusexua by fka twigs for sure

20. happiest song

almost all of the songs are depressing or angry or neutral... even the monkees songs are either sad or far too complex to be considered happy. but I'm gonna go with daily nightly by the monkees because it;s poetic and vague enough to pass the test and it makes ME extremely happy and, as my good friend pitypang once put it, it's basically micky dolenz messing around on a moog over mike nesmith's dense but beautiful lyrics. <3

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oh right. i ended up kinda sorta semi developed a conlang for this sole purpose. for names. i guess.

in terms of linguistics i was taught the basics back in hs so i got some pointers on how to lay down the rules of basic grammars and everything related to it. obviously there's a lot more to languages than just order of words and how they interact with each other and how outside factors may influence said language but it's better than nothing i guess. i definitely didn't get far enough in my ed to sufficiently analyse things like, how languages evolve past maybe a few decades than its modern existence and presentation (in terms of written form and such) so i couldn't exactly apply any significant theories on how the language itself came to be so really what am doing rn is just putting down a bunch of bullshit, assign definitions and use to each of those bullshit, and keep track of it all.

i do know at least that for some (maybe a lot, maybe all, idk) languages' vocab, there's influence of onomatopeia that later either adopted or adapted into its own word to describe the thing. e.g. sundanese "maung" from how people thought tigers' roar sound; "hihid" for specific type of fan based on the sound it makes. so i got that guide, too.

then lastly, that some languages use the words they first used for certain roles or activities as name for people who frequently do those roles or activities. like the common english name "smith" iirc derived from the role/occupation of blacksmiths.

last one was the focal point because. again. this all started over me trying to give names to early hominids characters. so far i've made up words that just means: parents/children, young/old, strong/weak, and of course roles like hunters, leaders, etc. so i just made up a bunch of bullshit, under certain constraints i also made up (e.g. one word only having at most two syllables), write down what they're supposed to mean, combine those with made up particles or conjunctions, then i got a name. the blessed mother. the blessed son. hunter's child. the old man.

now the hard thing about this, and likely its further development down the line, is that i don't know much how regional settlements (?) or divide affect the phonetics. why does the letter A pronounced differently in english (ey) and indonesian (ah), for example. what caused this. because, beyond the difference in sound and its resulting accent, several years down the line this affect the way people's speaking organ function when they communicate. people whose native language near exclusively roll their Rs would have a hard time curling it. maybe this won't have mattered much if from all my made up bullshit, there's some trends in sounds and the way they're pronounced -- am not tolkien, i never planned for this conlang to be actually used in text beyond names and titles. but, had i have that, i think i might have an easier time going forward making up more bullshit for this ... extremely ambitious side track. like. waaaaaaaaayyyyy too extremely ambitious.

i do have a few books on phonetics and phonology, and, more broadly, linguistics in general. unfortunately ... they were referenced in my hs text books. fucked up thing is they're supposed to be linguistics 101 for college. so that's how i found out i had some college ed in high school. good for ego I GUESS. kinda useless for my work here though.

but anyway. sigh. yeah. i found a solution to my name problems but while this works for now, as more and more recurring characters of this era in history come up, i'll prolly need to do some required reading.

for a. fucking. hobby.

THIS ALL COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF THE H. NEANDERTHALS AND DENISOVANS AND EARLY H. SAPIENS HAD ETCHED SOME SEMBLANCE OF THEIR FUCKING SPEAKING SYSTEM ONTO ANY POSSIBLE FOSSILISED SURFACE INSTEAD OF JUST DEPICTIONS OF WHOLE BEINGS BUT NOOOOOO LET'S MAKE THINGS HARD FOR ME, HALF A MILLENIA LATER.

so early hominids had time to paint murals on the caves they vibed in but didn't have the time to record what they called each other? OKAY.