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This English teacher translated Capcom’s Monster Hunter language, and it only took 2,000 hours (msn.com)

Just thought anyone would be interested in this.

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Empty Spaces Conlang

I am feeling very tempted to make a conlang inspired by all the empty spaces, doll posting, and mech posting stories I have read so far on this site and one time on the archive. I imagine the words being made up of a limited set of morphemes that describe all the parts of a thing and use phonemic changes within the word for inflections. There would be an honorific system depending on whether the speaker and listener and/or referent is a doll, pilot, witch, handler, demon, or some other being. Pronouns would be modified nouns that have most of their phonemes chopped off to make them shorter as befitting such anaphora.

Other than that, I am not sure if I will commit to such a project right now. Most definitely later. Other than that, I find conlanging and the not-lore of empty spaces to be interesting enough to consider trying to combine them.

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Federated Hives Languages

The Fae

A combination of bee dances in the air and firefly signals. sub-hive members detatch from the host to perform patterns that they were instructed to do. These patterns can be scaled up in size as an equivalent to vocal raising of the voice.

The Symbiotes

Seeing as these are the Symbiotes from Marvel, the species have engineered a language that can be described as "shapeshifting lassos" with how they writhe and loop around in seemingly random shapes.

The Stonewalkers

Since the biological host is encased as the core of a stone body, the Stonewalkers will break off pieces of their shell and juggle them. The technique, height, and other factors of the juggle are used to determine both lexical and grammatical information.

These three are just the dominant languages of the species listed above. There are more species with even more languages spoken within each one. Due to this, an auxiliary language was developed to facilitate communication between the hives within the federation. Outside of these formal meetings, each species member can and often will speak other languages.

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Potential Minecraft Fanlangs

(The system is [mob species/faction] - [language name].

Creepers - Creepy.

Endermen - Ending.

End Settlers - Endish.

Farlanders - Farlandish.

Illagers - Growling.

The Imperium - Imperial.

The Monument - Monumental.

Nether Settlers - Netherese.

Piglins - Oinkish.

Skeletons - Rattly Bones.

Utopia - Utopian.

Villagers - Humming.

Witches - Hexing.

Zombies - Zombese.

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Honkai: Star Rail Path Languages.

I was hit with the idea of an Aeon and Emanators of a path speaking a language unique to that path that might not be found anywhere else in the setting that could be used for Aeon-to-emanator and/or emanator-to-emanator communication and embody that path's philosophy. For Example:

Destruction being made from the remaining fragments of other languages of the speakers who dedicated their lives to this path. In other words, the members' languages get reduced to a specific phrase that is only used in that context alongside of the other phrases from the other languages used in other contexts. Hopefully, this gives the language of Destruction a patchwork feeling similar to how I head-canon the followers and Emanators' aesthetic being similar to Nanook, a kintsugi patchwork/hodge podge of pieces barely held together yet working exactly as needed. There is also the possibility that morphemes in this langauage are incredibly long and use destructive morphology to reduce the word till the inflected form is shorter than the root form. Perhaps the "roots" are composed of other roots all glommed together with subtle differences of meanings depending on how the fragments are arranged before being conjugated.

Propagation being a self-permutating language that changes with each generation of the Swarm that is born. That an individual's language can be used to trace their lineage back in different branches. That all idiolects have different forms based upon which stage of an individual's lifecycle is being perceived and/or experienced. Not to mention that all of them have a metric-ton of derivational systems to allow new words to be created for new concepts the swarm comes across.

Abundance has roots that start out small but then collect morphemes that make the inflected forms even larger the more concepts a speaker wants to express with that word. Like trees, each morpheme has a unique word form when inflected that makes it unique and require memorizing. Perhaps sentences in the Abundance language act like actual trees in that each utterance can branch off other ones and create a fractal of possible sentences and speeches that are somehow spoken at the same time.

That's about it. I don't know if I will also cover the languages of the various planets, species, and/or groups of the setting. Granted, I was tempted to develop Adventurine's people's after reading more about the Avgin on the Wiki. Also, the Trailblazer is able to understand all of these languages... for some reason, lol.

Still, I have always had that drive to create languages for god-like beings and I feel surer of what those languages could be like with the Aeons than anything else. Perhaps expanding this project further could give me insight to making the languages of other such beings from other franchises as well.

Anyways, this is all I have to say for now. I might come back to this. Till then, I will share this with all of you HSR fans and fellow conlangers in the hope that at least one of you would feel inspired enough by these ramblings to expand on it (just link me the ideas when you do).

With all that said, I wish you all a pleasant day. Take care and till next time... ;)

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Hydra Monster Conlang Ideas

Multiple vocal tracts that allow for the intonation of individual phonemes and/or syllables to be spoken at the same time.

voiceless-breathy voicing to imitate the voicelessness of the reptiles that the hydra is usually depicted as.

A sort of Head Hierarchy to decide which heads speak which phonemes/syllables.

Different registers based on the number of heads a hydra specimen has.

"Blood" and "Poison/toxin" being the same root/stem.

Phonemic heads that are as much a part of the phoneme as the place and manner of articulation and the stress, voicing, and tone of the phoneme being spoken by said head.

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My journey into 3D animation begins.

No rigging here. Just pure objects. I had to use an empty to help orient the red block's corner. I also discovered that just two keys would interpolate weirdly and necessitates the use of a breakdown. Fun fact, I had to use a break down twice for that same red one.

The green and yellow pincers were simple enough. Fun fact: I had the original animation open and close the pincers three times in quick succession. Maybe something in the gif-making-process messed that up, lol.

Finally, I had the settings for each new project without a light source. Unfortunately, that also meant that the rendering was dark as the inside of a sofa. So, I caved and added a sun light to the layout. Works like a charm. I'll have to figure out how to make the colors brighter without a light source.

And that is all, I hope to be able to make models of many parts that are rigged up and animated as well as the Bayverse Transformers. Not that they'll necessarily transform, but still.

Thanks for looking and I'll see you next time... ;)

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Mass Effect Conlang Project

Am I a conlanger or am I a masochist? lol. either way, I have been compelled to at least create a list in my computers file system of races from the Mass Effect Franchise that I want to try constructing languages for.

I have sixteen species listed so far that I have created a word document dedicated to each one's grammar. those species being:

Angara

Asari

Batarian

Drell

Elcor

Hanar

Kett

Krogan

Leviathan

Prothean

Quarian

Salarian

Turian

Volus

Vorcha

Yahg

I will level with you who are reading this post. not all grammars are going to get the same amount of attention. some I will be more interested in and thus spend more time on (*cough cough* Krogan). Some will get a barebones description of their grammar (Currently unknown). Not only that, but I won't be sticking to the canon. I am going the path of the Without Hesitation fanfiction and making this a self-indulgent side project that I will be sharing with you.

but overall, I hope to have fun with this side project. and I hope you who are reading this will be amused by what I come up with.

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after every mission, once docked in the boarding bay, the mech would upload itself into a smaller body outside. then it would wait patiently for the meter thick hatch on the spherical core to open before extracting it's "bio-processor".

on rainy days it would where a transparent Smart-Cloak to protect her from getting more wet as it carried her past the other docked mechs and through the streets of the outpost. occasionally one of the clients would come to personally congratulate them on a job well done. it tries to be polite but makes sure to keep small talk at a minimum.

during the trip it knows that its cloak will provide her with updates and idle distractions on the trip back home. once arriving it would greet its partner who would fuss over the processor physical wellbeing. once it's satisfied, they would peel off the layers of her suit. they made sure to be gentle of her ports.

once that's done, one of them would place her in the cradle. the wick lining would take care of the accumulated sweat and other fluids that accumulated in the core. a blanket of a similar, softer, breathable material would then be laid over her and tucked into the higher sides that were specifically adjusted to her proportions.

after that, it was just a matter of letting her rest. she would still be disoriented from the decoupling but somehow would manage to recover by dinner. once the prepackaged rations were eaten, they would find something to pass the time. if they were lucky, partner managed to get its hands on a new memetic crystal to slot in the projector they invested in. but most of the time it would be playing or reading one of the various manuals they horded over time.

at the end of the day, she would be tucked in again while one of the mechs would go into defragging mode. one always kept watch during the night, and they always switched who would be doing so each day. by morning, after breakfast of a more nutritious prepacked meal, she, with the help of her partners, would slip back into the newly cleaned suit. her wits were gathered enough to make the trip on her own two feet.

at the garage, they go over the bigger mech before she plugs herself in, sealing herself in the core while her partner would upload back into the bigger mech. all of this was after they found a new job to do. something that has no shortage in the Scrapheaps.

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There's more where this came from at Diesel Knights' YouTube channel.

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Firearm manufacturers

Laterano: Cursed. mass designed by the AI they worship. "How is it possible for them to even work?!"

Leithanien: Overengineered. Custom made to only be used by certain individuals via that one's arts. "How many pieces does this thing have?"

Columbia: TBD. Possibly cheap and as good as they need to be. "We'll take two hundred."

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Polycule romance except it's two people with DID.

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Jinx meeting Jericho Swain in Noxus, for the first time. Possibly making the leader laugh with her personality.

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Hollow Knight Wyrm Language.

Each verb is three morphemes while each noun is two and particles are one. Clauses and sentences are formed by insterting the noun around one of the morphemes of the verb. Where the noun is slotted could indicate tense or case.

In other words, V1 V2 V3 = verb. N1 N2 = noun.

N1 V1 N2 V2 V3 = past or agent case. V1 N1 V2 N2 V3 = present or subject case. V1 V2 N1 V3 N2 = future or patient case.

That is all! BTW, this is for the Wyrms, the giant Shai-hulud looking creatures... just to let you know.

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I'm starting to see what their ad strategy is.

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My Future Conlanging Guide.

I want to write my own book on conlanging. Unlike David J. Peterson's Art of Language Invention and Mark Rosenfelder's conlanging series, I want my book to be about pushing the limits of constructed languages. In other words, while both the books that exist now are about creating naturalistic languages with diachronic features and irregularities, mine would be about getting in the mindset to create weird features, to figure out how to do stuff that no natural language has done.

Unfortunately, I feel that I am not of the right mindset to write that book just yet. I haven't felt exposed to enough conlangs and resources to confidently write a work that would be referenced across generations. Not yet at least.

Despite that, my conlanging journey continues as I explore across the field across various books and sites. One day, I will give my two cents on the subject.