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Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 03:35
by The Kakama
In malay,it's called "bola sepak",loosely translated as kick ball.

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 10:41
by Anteroinen
Vurn wrote:Ok, let's get started on the pronouns.

I - 12 different ones depending on gender (male, female) and age (kid, teenager, adult, middle-aged, old, primordial (like Satan or God))
You - 12 combinations + 3 different ones depending on if you don't know the gender, the age, or both
He/she - 15 combinations
It - 20 ones (physical state (I think solids, liquids, gases, plasma, Einstein-Bose condensate, I think it's enough) movement (if it's moving or not), gender)
Natural we will also have dual, trial, quadral, paucal (small group) and plural as well as singular. Oh, and also a set of passive pronouns (i.e. unknown subject). What about verbs? I think past perfect, perfect, past, preterite, present, future, future perfect is almost satisfying for tenses but what about modes?

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 11:55
by Vortex
Anteroinen wrote:
Vurn wrote:Ok, let's get started on the pronouns.

I - 12 different ones depending on gender (male, female) and age (kid, teenager, adult, middle-aged, old, primordial (like Satan or God))
You - 12 combinations + 3 different ones depending on if you don't know the gender, the age, or both
He/she - 15 combinations
It - 20 ones (physical state (I think solids, liquids, gases, plasma, Einstein-Bose condensate, I think it's enough) movement (if it's moving or not), gender)
Natural we will also have dual, trial, quadral, paucal (small group) and plural as well as singular. Oh, and also a set of passive pronouns (i.e. unknown subject). What about verbs? I think past perfect, perfect, past, preterite, present, future, future perfect is almost satisfying for tenses but what about modes?
Naaaah, too simple. We should mark every number from 1 to 1000000, and from there in intervals of 10 until the Graham number, from there in intervals of 100. And some pronouns depending on the gender, number, social status, age, height, facial characteristics, number of hairs in their head, number of times they have coughed since they were born, and many other notable things. And about verbs, we should have a special mark for every time from the Big Bang until about 10^60 years from now, changing each millisecond (much more accurate, don't you think? XD), and about modes, well, a jussive mode, a conditional mode, a semiconditional mode, a special mode for sarcasm, a subjunctive mode, an imperative mode, a suggestive mode, an exhortative mode, an abusive mode, a risative mode, a plorative mode, a somnative mode... etc. etc.

:D

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 13:20
by Anteroinen
OnyxIonVortex wrote:
Anteroinen wrote:
Vurn wrote:Ok, let's get started on the pronouns.

I - 12 different ones depending on gender (male, female) and age (kid, teenager, adult, middle-aged, old, primordial (like Satan or God))
You - 12 combinations + 3 different ones depending on if you don't know the gender, the age, or both
He/she - 15 combinations
It - 20 ones (physical state (I think solids, liquids, gases, plasma, Einstein-Bose condensate, I think it's enough) movement (if it's moving or not), gender)
Natural we will also have dual, trial, quadral, paucal (small group) and plural as well as singular. Oh, and also a set of passive pronouns (i.e. unknown subject). What about verbs? I think past perfect, perfect, past, preterite, present, future, future perfect is almost satisfying for tenses but what about modes?
Naaaah, too simple. We should mark every number from 1 to 1000000, and from there in intervals of 10 until the Graham number, from there in intervals of 100. And some pronouns depending on the gender, number, social status, age, height, facial characteristics, number of hairs in their head, number of times they have coughed since they were born, and many other notable things. And about verbs, we should have a special mark for every time from the Big Bang until about 10^60 years from now, changing each millisecond (much more accurate, don't you think? XD), and about modes, well, a jussive mode, a conditional mode, a semiconditional mode, a special mode for sarcasm, a subjunctive mode, an imperative mode, a suggestive mode, an exhortative mode, an abusive mode, a risative mode, a plorative mode, a somnative mode... etc. etc.

:D
Naturally we also need quotative, potential, optative and naturally an eventive.

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 14:06
by azareus
OnyxIonVortex wrote:a special mode for sarcasm
But that would make it easier to understand D: What we need is to not allow people to talk with a different voice when they are sarcastic or ironic. :twisted:

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 14:29
by Anteroinen
azareus wrote:
OnyxIonVortex wrote:a special mode for sarcasm
But that would make it easier to understand D: What we need is to not allow people to talk with a different voice when they are sarcastic or ironic. :twisted:
Oh yeah, a sarco-ironic mood! That truly sounds like Hellish.

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 14:32
by Vortex
Anyways, nobody should be able to speak and write those amount of marks, so they would probably communicate only by growls XD

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 16:43
by Anteroinen
OnyxIonVortex wrote:Anyways, nobody should be able to speak and write those amount of marks, so they would probably communicate only by growls XD
Is that not appropriate? :twisted:

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 17:18
by borys610
sundayfever wrote:Hahhaha

We had our failures here too. One girl wrote her name and an initial of her last name on the wall with a spray. We mocked her for years.
What was this name and initial?

Re: Languages

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 18:21
by Vurn
Imo, it'd be better if the language was shit hard, but if you'd be actually able to speak it fluently. Would be fun to actually make it. I have quite a few symbols (for the Hellish alphabet) drawn already.