Category: Prompt
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Day 186: July 4, 2024
Goal: Write a section on imperatives Note: Incorporate the examples you created yesterday in your description. Tip: Remember to discuss any distinctions you make in imperative forms. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Formalize your work on imperative clauses by writing a section in your language documentation to describe them and provide examples, being sure to showcase their…
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Day 185: July 3, 2024
Goal: Create imperative clauses Note: Provide several example commands in your conlang to show any distinct forms. Tip: Remember to include examples with a variety of verb valencies. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to put your plans into action and create imperative clauses. Provide several example commands in your conlang, being sure you demonstrate…
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Day 184: July 2, 2024
Goal: Draft a plan for imperative clauses Note: Also list forms you need to create or pull together for your chosen strategy. Tip: You might consider using the bare/citation form of the verb with no explicit subject. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Now that you have had some fun exploring imperatives, select a strategy or set of…
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Day 183: July 1, 2024
Goal: Consider options for imperative clauses Note: Some languages have distinct forms for singular, plural, and (in)formal. Tip: Second-person forms are most common, but some languages have third-person commands. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s focus shifts to imperative clause structures! Take some time to explore how a variety of languages form imperative clauses to get some…
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Day 182: June 30, 2024
Goal: Write a section describing phrasal coordination Note: Be sure to provide examples to demonstrate how they work. Tip: Update your dictionary as needed! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Use today to take a step back and update your language document. Write a section covering phrasal coordination, incorporating the examples you’ve created to demonstrate how they work…
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Day 181: June 29, 2024
Goal: Create examples of other phrase types Note: Include modifier phrases, verb phrases, adposition phrases, etc. Tip: You can decide whether a single strategy will cover all phrase types. Work focus: Create/Make/List Expand your examples of coordinated phrases to include other phrase types, such as verb phrases (e.g. “I [swam and rowed a boat] yesterday”),…
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Day 180: June 28, 2024
Goal: Consider how coordination interact with inflections Note: Conjunctions like “and” & “or” may affect subject verb agreement. Tip: Inclusive and exclusive “or” may follow different patterns. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Now that you have some coordinated noun phrases worked out, spend today considering how those noun phrases might interact with any inflections in your language…
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Day 179: June 27, 2024
Goal: Create examples of phrasal coordination Note: This may involve creating forms to serve as coordinators. Tip: Focus first on joining noun phrases. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to actually create coordinating conjunctions for your conlang and then to put together some sample noun phrases to test out the position of the conjunction relative…
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Day 178: June 26, 2024
Goal: Plan what you need for your coordination strategy Note: You may need to create new lexical forms and/or make templates. Tip: Focus only on phrasal coordination for now. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Take some time to select which phrasal coordination strategy (or strategies) you are going to incorporate into your language. For now, only focus…
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Day 177: June 25, 2024
Goal: Explore options for phrasal coordination Note: Typical basic coordination options include “and, but, or.” Tip: The comitative can double as a coordinator meaning “and.” Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s goal shifts focus to coordination strategies, focusing specifically on phrasal coordination. The most common basic coordinating conjunctions include options for “and” and “or” (though you may…