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Month: July 2017

Let’s go to… – Day 2

Let’s go to… – Day 2

This is the second day of the Let’s go to… challenge. And today you have been teleported to… Syria, in preset times. Describe your experiences. What you see, hear, smell, touch or taste, your feelings, the friends you make… As always you can write just a three-words sentence or a full story.

The Dailies. July 3

The Dailies. July 3

Did you work on your language today? Create any new rules of grammar or syntax? New progress on a script? New words in your lexicon? On the other hand, do any excavating or reading or enjoying stuff you’ve already created? Do you have any favorites to share? How did you conlang today?

Letter/symbol frequency?

Letter/symbol frequency?

One of the other writing hobbies I have is lipograms–text that excludes a common letter of the alphabet. In English, the most commonly used letter is E, which makes it the hardest to exclude, and most often used in these kinds of challenges. There’s information about other languages here; often, vowels are the most common letter. I have a few short sample texts in my language, so I ran them through this frequency analyzer to see which were the most…

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Let’s go to… – Day 1

Let’s go to… – Day 1

This is the first day of the Let’s go to… challenge. And today you have been teleported to… Egypt, in the year 40 BC. Describe your experiences. What you see, hear, smell, touch or taste, your feelings, the friends you make… As always you can write just a three-words sentence or a full story.

Let’s go to… – Introduction

Let’s go to… – Introduction

Welcome to the challenge that will start tomorrow Monday the 2nd! During this week, you will be magical teleported to a random location of the world, which might be in the present, the past or the future. No pictures of context will be provided, just the location and the time. Your task is to describe your experiences. Everything you see, hear, smell, touch or taste, your feelings, the friends you make… As always you can write just a three-words sentence…

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The Dailies. July 2

The Dailies. July 2

Did you work on your language today? Create any new rules of grammar or syntax? New progress on a script? New words in your lexicon? On the other hand, do any excavating or reading or enjoying stuff you’ve already created? Do you have any favorites to share? How did you conlang today?

The Colourful Week – Day 7

The Colourful Week – Day 7

This is the seventh and last day of The Colourful Week challenge, which consists of describing pictures using your conlang. You can write from a single simple sentence to a full paragraph. That’s up to you! Today’s picture is:   (source/credit: https://es.pinterest.com/pin/454793262344537473/) You include the IPA transcription, gloss or other information. Thank you for participating, and see you in the next challenge!

The Dailies. July 1

The Dailies. July 1

Did you work on your language today? Create any new rules of grammar or syntax? New progress on a script? New words in your lexicon? On the other hand, do any excavating or reading or enjoying stuff you’ve already created? Do you have any favorites to share? How did you conlang today?

The Colourful Week – Day 6

The Colourful Week – Day 6

This is the sixth day of The Colourful Week challenge, which consists of describing pictures using your conlang. You can write from a single simple sentence to a full paragraph. That’s up to you! Today’s picture is: (source/credit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Morningsun92) You include the IPA transcription, gloss or other information. Thank you for participating!