A question: do your conlangs have in-universe written versions? If so, is literacy rare or widespread? Is there one standard written language or many shifting varieties? How close is the written language to the spoken one? What are people’s relationship to written language in their society?
I have a verb stem in Akachenti that gets used by itself for a variation on present indicative which indicates that this situation/action will continue in the future, e.g. I love you now and expect to keep on doing so. With a non-present marker, the stem is used to indicate simple future tense, e.g. I will come to love you. The normal present is the unmarked stem and indicates the action began previously and also occurs now. You could call…
I am getting to the point where I don’t want my dictionary and my grammar in the same file anymore, so I’m setting up a separate dictionary file soon. I downloaded Lexique Pro to try it out but honestly, I think I’d rather just do a text file for mine. It just seems easier? I don’t know. How do you organize and format your dictionary? What sorta info do you include? What do you think characterizes a good dictionary? If…
In August my D&D group are starting a new campaign and I’ll be playing a Dragonborn for the first time. For those unfamiliar, dragonborn is a D&D fantasy race that’s basically a reptiloid race with dragon blood. When you watch rpg streams and stuff, there’s a tendency for people to give dragonborn chars this deep, big, broad-chested kind of voice. I don’t really wanna do that: partially I don’t think I’d be good at it and partially I don’t think…