nonascii alphabet at @Satsuma’s request
a (ǎ) (ą) [å] c d e (ě) (ę) ə f [g] ƣ h i į j ꜭ [k] l m n ŋ o ǫ ȣ [ȣ̌] [ȣ̨] p r s ß t u [ų] v w [x] ɣ z ʒ ɂ æ (æ̌) (æ̨) (æ̊)
@coriander no it would have been terrible
@coriander johnny depp was going to be the star of hidalgo, but he wanted to be in a more family-friendly movie, so they gave him pirates and cast viggo mortensen for hidalgo instead, and:
good
(the problem wasn’t actually /zʕ/ per se but rather that it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from /ʑʕ/; merging the two allows me to force /ʑj/ in all cases while keeping /zʕ/ before low vowels)
this due to X (/ʕ/~/χ/) lowering the following vowels and Y (/j/~/ç/) raising them, which also resulted in the two merging to a single medial with as many as FOUR different pronunciations depending on the surrounding sounds
here to report that my conlang has sufficiently progressed to the stage of having words whose gender* cannot be determined from their shape and which may be the opposite of what one expects
* grammatical gender in the sense of having two morphological classes of word**; conlang does not feature natural gender
** it’s not really gender but rather vowel harmony that has gone thru some shit
@wallhackio you also favourited it so sending real mixed messages here
@wallhackio i quite like “feel it” also
@wallhackio its not boring
@wallhackio have you ever listened to Seeking Thrills by Georgia
@noracodes i mean, i think it’s a baseline in the same way that marx thought liberalism was a necessary baseline from which communism would develop. absolutely, we would not be having this conversation if the free software movement had never happened. but also, it wasn’t the liberal countries which actually achieved communism first. it was the countries which liberalism was unable to serve.
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