Three Dollar Quill

Okay, so, I was thinking about other projects today, but I can explain where I'm at with this conlang concept.

Lately, my favored entry point for conlang development has been to come up with a grammatical feature or construct I want to mess with. (If someone else would take responsibility for the bulk of the worldbuilding in a project, I might be able to make progress on the conlang aspects, but given that my major worldbuilding project right now is currently hovering at "can I make eukaryotes exist in this setting?"...) Anyway, my inspiration here was the concept of "what if the snooty ethereal beings were so snooty that their language considered 'we are good' a sentence fragment, and the grammatical version is something like 'we are better than you'?" Basically, all sentences have to be explicitly a comparative construction, with the stated reason that they're aware of the broader context for everything, and speaking in absolute terms is philosophically incoherent. Why, someone speaking a less refined language might say that a room is cold, but that implicitly privileges their own perspective, and such an utterance would be worthless to, say, a polar bear.

Right now, I'm ignoring the question of phonology, roots, etc, and just trying to sketch syntax stuff. I've got a bunch of ideas about movement or whatever, that may not actually make sense. I'm going to have to work through a few examples, and see if I can make it work, or if I need a bunch of anaphora.

Anyway, it's late and I should get ready for bed. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of this work done tomorrow.

Good night.