Conlanging 2021-05-21
Getting to the point where I need real structure to make progress.
Getting to the point where I need real structure to make progress.
Closing in on a sketch of protolanguage phonology and development.
Some of the clusters I found were surprising. Sometimes, that was because they were in loan words.
Figuring out all the sounds this language can't make, and the surprising ones it can.
Seems to me like there's way more stuff available for ancient Greek than modern Greek, but I specifically want modern Greek. Oh well.
I felt like I was constantly tripping over weird statements when reading up on this in Wikipedia.
I'm going to need to get over my aversion to specifics in talking about this. It's a pretty transparent attempt to deflect potential criticism via obscurity.
Maybe these entries would end up less sparse if I brought back the "specific things on specific days" structure.
Real tongue hours.
So much of problem solving is restating things you know until you notice an obvious follow-up question.