#prepositional verbs

[velaraffricate]

i alternate between more worldbuilding and more conlang heavy phases and whenever i enter back into a conlanging phase the autism just kicks into overdrive its all i can think about i already have so many ideas. i was thinking word order could start out as VSO. then S/O verb agreement evolves thru pronouns becoming suffixes. the subject now gets fronted, > SVO. one daughter language could then evolve topic marking, fronting the object when it's the topic, > OSV. now in sentences where the S is the topic the O retains its position before the verb, > SOV, the new default. maybe this change could also trigger prepositions to become postpositions. no idea how naturalistic this would be but its an idea

[nashvillehotchicken]

started biblical hebrew studies all over confident like "this grammar shit is easy" and have now been introduced to the souls boss that is Prepositions.

[mechieonu]

demon!ford and human!bill au where ford is summoned by sheer spite is immensely funny to me. like. bill's studying the phenomena of weirdness in gfalls and reads the incantation in the cave when he hits a roadblock. nothing happens. so he goes back home to maybe try and categorize the dumpster fire of loose papers on his desk into something geographically approximate to a thesis, and he's not even two sentences into drafting—"The chances of the cloak flipping back off when inconvenient are more smaller when in the enchanted forest"— when someone sits in the armchair across the room.

"Much."

"What?!"

"It's much smaller." The being crosses their legs and adjusts their glasses. "Comparatives, kid."

[blokkan-conlang]

when i said this conlang will be highly agglutinating with many morphemes i wasnt kidding 🥲

[gingermintpepper]

What do you mean by read the Palladium on the tags of the post? As far as I knew no texts survived the actual telling of the Palladium theft? Am I mistaken? (Genuine question, not malicious)

Nope, you're completely correct! That's fully a mistake on my part (I meant to write read about the Palladium) but because I'm on mobile I couldn't edit the tags without completely deleting them 😔 I ended up just leaving them as is but I certainly don't mind the formal correction cause like, the Palladium very much is one of the story bits that we no longer have written record of. Thank you very much my scrupulous anon! o7

[essektheylyss]

New fun language learning activities: read Wikipedia pages for philosophical and political theories in your target language, just for kicks.

[the-boy-branithar]

worst part of learning another language is having to learn english first

[mishkakagehishka]

Gaslighting myself into believing i am smart and know this shit

[porciaenjoyer]

an innocent phrasal verb-adjacent phrase ruined forever

[breitzbachbea]

Four years of fucking grammar and I cannot work the hell out what the fuck "von jedem" is in the sentence "Mein Garten wird von jedem bewundert."

[richarlisonny]

relearning irish in adulthood is wild. there's just no verb for 'to have' in irish.

[sentence-structurer]

*[verb] [noun] [preposition] [noun]*

[exclamation] [conjunction] [adverb] [pronoun] [contraction ([verb] and [adverb]) ] [verb] [adverb] [pronoun] [verb] [pronoun]

*sees spoiler about character death*

ok but maybe that won’t happen when i watch it

[mishkakagehishka]

"God, i have to translate 11 texts this time" "omg it's my prof's OC!"

[english-mirror]

[lostandbackagain]

literally cannot recall a single word in german if you asked but I can read a weirdly long amount before I get lost. what does that mean

[sentence-structurer]

[determiner] [noun] [verb] [determiner] [noun] [preposition] [determiner] [noun] [verb] [preposition] [adjective] [noun]

Your mom finding her friend at a store is like unskippable cutscenes