Original Prompt Provided by Jessie Peterson Quothalinguist – Exploring language since ’89 Day Twenty-Nine Goal: Explore sound changes for vowels. Exploring Vowel Rules ɛ → a / _C[+palatal] a{i,j}(a) a{u,w}(a) → e o e o → i u / _# a V → e (= /ə/?) ∅ / in final syllables (though Friulian preserves the […]
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Original Prompt Provided by Jessie Peterson Quothalinguist – Exploring language since ’89 Day Twenty-Two Goal: Create five proto-forms for flora. Flora Plantae – awaɬo Fungi – hiro Protozoa – jɛt͡ɕ’u Tree – ŋi Shrub – jut’ihu Flowering Plant – θu Herb – rɛmu Day Twenty-Three Goal: Create five proto-forms for fauna. Fauna Aves – cɛɬu
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Chapter Four: After Syncope A feeling of strangeness would pass deep inside him, uprooting from within. It comes to pass that he is pulled from unconsciousness, as a shred from that screech unanticipatedly rises from the ashes of the realm between his ears. The damaged man was now awake. His fingertips dug intently into the
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Story of Stein, Four Once we set way beyond that mountain, dusk had come rather quickly. We pushed forth, poking in and out of the forest’s shade as we passed thickets and clearings of shrubs and flowers alike. We made way alongside the hills until we caught sight of the shoreline, and so we followed
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Original Prompt Provided by Jessie Peterson Quothalinguist – Exploring language since ’89 Day Fifteen Goal: Compile IPA charts for your conlang. Consonants Bilabial Labio-Dental Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ ŋ Plosive p’ t’ c k’ ʔ Affricate ts’ tɕ’ Fricative f θ s ɕ h Approximant j w Tap or Flap
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Chapter Three: The Observer “Now, light of abandonment, observe from your sequence of truth. Rise with aggression. You can hear the sound of two hands when they clap together, now show me the sound of one hand. Touch with one hand the razor and touch with another hand the violence to nock the razor.” Pfevet
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Story of Stein, Three The three of us took that morning by storm, treading along the steep hill sides at the base of that mountain. I took the first lead, having followed the river valley for some time before breaking west to bend around the cold and snowy peak. Steering that direction delivered us back
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Original Prompt Provided by Jessie Peterson Quothalinguist – Exploring language since ’89 Day Eight Goal: Describe (or design) native fauna. A Zoological Study These speakers have a reasonably well-versed understanding of their local terrain, as curious intellectuals among them have been able to distinguish between a collection of hundreds of individual species of animal life
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Previous Chapters Chapter Two: Catalyst “Those who do not fail become the New Men. Kneel before our truth and seal an oath, Muse of Blood. Reach from below and grip tightly to your razor.” Pfevet does as the voice within him proposes, soaking the caps of his knees into the pool of his own ichor.
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Previous Chapters Story of Stein, Two I remember waking to the leaf clutter gently brushing across my face, then continuing its path along the forest floor into little messy leafage collections. There was a crisp breeze blowing beneath the birch trees that brought a soft whistle, different than that of the morning birdsong. I woke
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