@anna @jopa there is a room that is very quiet but it would be really cool to actually run a conlang matrix server.

@anna Creating a copula is always hard because copulative frames are at the core of how we relate to the world! Maybe this will help: zero linguistic concepts are actual innate facts about language, it's all made up. Even if we acknowledge that it's all transcendent information that helps us navigate the forms of language without knowing things truly, most of it only applies to one language family and starts to fall apart when you look wider. Try to think higher level "how do I want the people who speak this language to organize ideas?" and then pick all the grammar based around that core conceptual model.

@ernestowg @imthehumanoid @linguistics neat! Thanks for the added detail on stem preservation. Splinters, blends, and clipped compounds, oh my! 🤩

@imthehumanoid @linguistics it's called a "lexicalized compound" and the process is called "lexicalization". Although if parts of the word are being ommitted in the final result, then it's called "apocopation".

@imthehumanoid the hard part would be how. After 20 some years, not much has changed so you'd need to just make some assumptions that the "minimalist" culture disappears and then what remains? Even if you assume there's an undercurrent of "quirky" or "counter-culture" culture, those kinds of sub-cultures tend to evolve in less naturalistic-looking ways.

@imthehumanoid maybe your brain subconsciously wants you to still do the big idea and won't let you start a new one until you try.