Random Fact About Yourself (Game)

[TheUnforeseen]

I have never kissed a girl.

 

[MehGuy]

Random fact about me right now? My lip is bleeding...

 

[aloou]

I laugh so hard I cry when people fall or get hurt.

 

[jaapottery]

I have never kissed a girl.

I kissed my first boy at 21, so there's hope, if that's what you want.

 

[Toro]

- I spray myself with a spray of cologne, even if I am not going anywhere. (I don't mind getting dirty, but I like to smell good when I am not)

- I have no clue what I would look like now with hair.

 

[Miss Spaulding]

- I spray myself with a spray of cologne, even if I am not going anywhere. (I don't mind getting dirty, but I like to smell good when I am not)

I do this as well. Lol. Just took a shower and spritzed myself with my perfume.

 

[TheUnforeseen]

I kissed my first boy at 21, so there's hope, if that's what you want.

Nope TBH, I really do not like physical contact.

But I guess that will change when I fall in love, if I do.

 

[Miss Spaulding]

-'Bridge Over Troubled Water' is my favorite song.
-I still have a 'blankie' that I sleep with.
-I'm a listener rather than a talker.
-I've been attacked by a dog.
-I'm addicted to coffee and love it.

 

[redblue22]

I've never kissed a girl. they all kissed me.

 

[MacFall]

I have created a language.

 

[redblue22]

oh, do share. how do the morphemes work?

 

[MacFall]

oh, do share. how do the morphemes work?

It's based on free morphemes of one or two syllables. The simplest ones represent important abstract objects or actions; the more complex ones (i.e., involving diphthongs and digraphs) represent concrete objects or actions associated with those concepts. For instance the word for "place" is hi, while the word for "land" is hil, "soil" is hilt, and so on.

Modifiers always follow their objects in word structure (though syntax is a bit different). One example would be "home" - hiroth. It literally means "place-have", roth being the root word for possession. Then further on, "my home" would be hīrodau. Dau is the word for "I, me, myself". Literally "place-have-me"; actually meaning "place that is possessed (by) me". Note that the last consonant of the word for home was replaced with the first consonant of the modifier, as is done with many words in Hebrew. Therefore it becomes a distinct word, rather than a string of other, more basic words.

Obviously it is simple to change "my home" to "her home", "his home", or "that person's home" by using the appropriate suffix, respectively hirodis, hirodea, hirodeo.

I use parenthetical conditions to change the mode of speech. The word ath, for instance, is the all-purpose negative. Any statement following it is in the negative, either until the word ath is repeated or the sentence ends. This is also how emphasis, sarcasm, imperatives, inquisitives, cause-and-effect, and other modes work.

Syntax is pretty straightforward, but different from English. The subject usually comes first, followed by the object, then the predicate; although that's not necessarily the case when the subject is one's self, in which case a conjugated verb suffices to make the subject understood. Take the first verse of Psalm 23 (which I used as a laboratory while developing the language):

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

sanduin gunejadau endea ces ath tolech rodau.

Literally: Being-life protector-sheep-mine he-is therefore no (me) lack have-me (the negative and effect conditions are understood to be closed at the end of the sentence).

Intended meaning: The Living One my shepherd is, therefore lack have I not.

I have created about 300 words so far, which is all I've needed for the story in which the language is used, but when I'm bored I develop it a bit more. I'm also working on a font for the alphabet, which is really cool even if I say so myself. There are 24 consonants, and they combine to form symbols for each of the 574 possible syllables (not counting digraphs, which are simply tagged on at the end of the glyph).

I also organized the consonants into 4-letter series, based on phonetic similarity, as follows:

t, th, dh, d
p, b, f, v
c, ch (breathy voiced glottal fricative), g, gh (hard glottal stop, represented by the letter x as in Gaelic)
s, z, j (as in Jean-Luc Picard), sh

r (flipped), rr (rolled r)

and then there are six consonants without a "series":

n
ng
l
m
w
h (breath sound, represented by an apostrophe when needed to distinguish it from th, dh, ch, gh, and sh)

In complex words, a consonant is more likely to be replaced by the first consonant of the word being added if the two are in the same series. For instance above, the verb "I have", rodau, is a combination of the words roth and dau. This is done for the verb but not for the noun, rothdau, which literally means "a thing that I have". Such combinations tend to happen more with verbs than with nouns. It's arbitrary, but I wanted it to be consistent and it had to be one or the other.

...Sooo, that's probably a LOT more information than you actually wanted. I could go on forever, though.

 

[redblue22]

that is sooooo cooooool.

that is exactly what I wanted. Aaaaaand, I vote your post to now be the coolest post in all of CF. I really enjoyed it and read twice. ah, the fun memories of linguistics.

thank you.

 

[Going Merry]

I'm cool

 

[MehGuy]

I'm lame

Yeah, I am too.

 

[Going Merry]

Yeah, I am too.

i made that post so you would confess to that

 

[ks777]

I have never kissed a girl.

haha, me neither. Some drunk girl kissed me a couple of days ago, but I didn't kiss her. As lame as it sounds, I want my first kiss to be with someone I might actually be with and not a 'one night stand' kiss

 

[Going Merry]

I've never kissed a girl either

 

[ks777]

i made that post so you would confess to that

Too cool to use punctuation? But At Least Your'e Not Typing Like This Anymore lol

 

[Going Merry]

I Can Still Type That Way Very Easily. You Know I Really Like Typing This Way, Thank You For Reminding Me About This