Three Dollar Quill

Okay, I'm... stabilizing. Let's try to get back to other topics.

Yesterday, I did do the Conlang Year prompt. Sort of. And I've already done everything in today's prompt. More or less.

So, let's see what's next.

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Well. I'd already done pronouns. However, I wouldn't be opposed to adding a formality distinction, now that I'm reading over this.

Okay, like, even knowing that it's extremely likely that this prompt is just for thinking about what pronouns to have, I at least want to figure out a derivation for the formal version. And that will perhaps take some thinking, because my first thought was to copy Spanish, which has its formal second-person forms derived from possessive phrases, and the possessives in this language are, special. If I go this route, everything in this language that has declensions, will have regular declensions, except for this one pronoun, which will instead have a mess.

For a bit of variety, let's make these changes in the Jackal lexicon rather than the Eagle lexicon. This is early enough that the possessive preposition doesn't have its exact modern pronunciation, so there's a chance that sound evolution will do something weird. At the same time, it's not at the same time (as every other fusion I've done so far.)

One thing to note, which shouldn't be a problem in this instance, but may in the future, is that I need to figure out how to select a particular inflection when fusing. Actually, one thing that will be a problem is that I'm not propagating fusion changes to the children. I'll have to fix that.

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That's not simple. I think I'll write all of this up in my notes, and ponder this. The big issue is really just getting the representation correct. After that, I just need to create some helper functions and restructure the fusion logic a little.

Anyway, I have to put this down for now, and get ready for bed.

Good night.