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AoS VAs and Conlangs by T1mbuk0n3, journal

AoS VAs and Conlangs

Dec 20, 2023

I looked into sta.sh links provided by Syfyman2XXX, which I will not show here, and they among other images on his main page reveal that Shadows of Love(his project about werewolves) and Blood Brothers are part of a shared universe that Power of Water is also a part of. If animated projects were to be based on those continuities, there could be lots of options for professional VAs and child stars. Troy Baker, David Kaufman, Josh Keaton, Haley Tju, Tara Strong, Kimberly Brooks, Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny, Jill Talley, Lara Jill Miller, Grey DeLisle Griffin, Charlie Adler, Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell(and IDK why I keep thinking Jeff Sarre, animator of games by Telltale like BttF and MC Story Mode), Tress MacNeille, Alan Oppenheimer, Mark Hamill, Jessica DiCicco, Nicole Sullivan, John DiMaggio, Will Forte, Sumalee Montano, Stephanie Sheh, Yuri Lowenthal, Fred Tatasciore, Phil Lamarr, Kevin Michael Richardson, Billy West, Zeno Robinson, Leah Mei Gold, Cree Summer, Sydney Mikayla, Dee

Planning the Syntax(TFCaC) by T1mbuk0n3, literature

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Planning the Syntax(TFCaC)

With the establishment of the phonologies and phonotactics of the four proto-languages, it would be easy to set up some words. Personally, I'd save the worldbuilding for after the grammar is decided, and maybe I, my cohort(s), or both/all of us together(the "all" meaning being subjective the whole time given how many TTS characters I'm choosing to be involved in this school) could suggest the students to consider the same. Anyway, there are multiple ways of establishing a language's syntax and grammar. We/they will save complex morphology at a later point in the course, and just establish a default word order for the protolangs. But before that, we should consider the synthesis of the protolangs. A few types of synthesis exist for languages: analytical, agglutinative, fusional, polysynthetic, etc. Analytical languages are where words convey meaning while remaining separate without being annexed, examples including Mandarin, and English in recent years or centuries. Isolating

What Conlanging Is(TFCAC) by T1mbuk0n3, literature

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What Conlanging Is(TFCAC)

(TFCAC stands for "Teaching Fictional Characters About Conlanging". The full title is "Teaching LH/CG Characters, OCs, and Others About Conlanging".) A conlanging course, if taught to other students, would start off with an introduction to what conlangs are, the reasons they exist, and the methods behind the practice. Now, a conlang is a constructed language, as the name is a commonly-used(by certain nerds) portmanteau of the expanded one. Many of them are featured more commonly than normal, examples including, without being limited to, the Elvish languages by J.R.R. Tolkien for his book franchise depicting the world of Middle Earth, Klingon for the Star Trek franchise, Atlantean for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Na'vi for James Cameron's film franchise depicting the world of Pandora, Dothraki and the Valyrian family of George R.R. Martin's book series depicting the world of Westeros and Essos, the languages of Arakis and other planets serving as the settings of the Dune

Talking About VAs and Conlangs for Power of Water by T1mbuk0n3, journal

Talking About VAs and Conlangs for Power of Water

Aug 25, 2023

https://www.deviantart.com/syfyman2xxx/gallery/83378872/power-of-water Looking at these images, it would be obvious that none of the non-human creatures speak English, nor would they be speaking any of the known languages of our world. What languages would the merfolk tribes, the goblins(maybe?), the yetis, the dryads, etc be speaking? I'm thinking of creating conlangs for them. I doubt Gabeherndon308 and HEROMASTER85 know of the many aspects of conlanging. If they're interested, they could look at the tutorials by DJP, Artifexian, Biblaridion, Kayinth, SpaceDirt, etc. If they do that, maybe they could also get ideas from looking at real-world languages, languages like Na'vi(and the such like), the conlang showcases those YouTubers made, especially the videos about Megdevi and Thandian to know what to avoid doing, as well as the videos by Lichen and others. That taxonomy video by Lichen could also be worth looking at.

The Teams and Solo Students(2 courses, many demos) by T1mbuk0n3, literature

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The Teams and Solo Students(2 courses, many demos)

For those that remember my DeviantArt Journal about a mixed multi-age school idea, and for those who never saw it, I recommend looking at it to catch up. For this chapter, I want to influence some ideas, even without deciding them myself. I'll let you decide. I could imagine the students including Lincoln, his friends, those four alternate sisters, etc being the students among others for this, whoever is nerdy enough and interested. Lucy and Haiku could also be included as well. Inspiration for them as students is thanks to TheAmazingPeanuts. I'm thinking of, attending the class if they're interested, Lincoln, his friends, Ronnie Anne, Sid, Lisa, Lucy(maybe), Haiku(maybe), those four alt sisters, and the alt versions of the following: Cricket, Meli, Adelaide, and Darcy. The original Darcy could join the fun as well. Maybe. The OCs of Tales of Camp Lakewood, Road to Royal Woods: A Rope of Sand, and TLH: The Next Chapter, could be students as well, perhaps alongside some OCs I met

M1stTC: New Phonemes for the Language by T1mbuk0n3, literature

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M1stTC: New Phonemes for the Language

There are times for things to be different than they used to be. The same thing applies even to languages. Some are at a fast pace, while others like Lithuanian are the slowest. There is something called archaism, which apparently was a thing for the Central Thirēan languages if you looked at Biblaridion's conlang showcase videos. Regardless, no natural languages are immune to change. This could be applied to naturalistic conlangs via simulation of sound evolution, and grammar evolution. Let's stick with sound changes for now. Remember that this applies to all instances of a particular sound going through a difference in a described environment across the languages in all areas. No attention is ever paid to grammar. Languages with similar or the exact same phonology can change to sound completely different from each other regarding the occurring sound changes and the distribution of their sounds. My advice is to figure out which sound changes are most likely to occur first and order

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T1mbuk0n3

Apr 18, 2023

docs.google.com/document/d/1kv…

GSwordfish

Jan 20, 2021

Surprised this is the only conlang group here... thought there'd be more active ones.

ClockwerkMao

Jan 26, 2021

I also know of www.deviantart.com/conlangers/, but it's a little less lively than here. I tend to think it's because conlanging's not the greatest social activity; most of us do this for ourselves. It's hard to critique or discuss method on something so personal, where the supporting technical literature is hard to get, and the accessible stuff like on Wikipedia is fine but far from state of the art.

And there's a trail of broken Esperantidos where cooperation went wrong. ☠ kidding/not kidding☠

GSwordfish

Jan 26, 2021

Well the conlang groups on Facebook (which I no longer use) and Reddit etc. seem to be very lively. As well as standalone conlanging forums etc. It seems to be thriving on other sites. Just not here. xD But I understand why.

ClockwerkMao

Jan 29, 2021

Yeah, forums probably have a structural advantage too, being text-based.

But while we're on the subject, how would you, personally, like such a group to work? It's fine if you don't have anything concrete, I'm just fishing for ideas.

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T1mbuk0n3

May 29, 2020