Shireroth

A little question: what would be the translation of 'parliament' in this language? "Landsraad" apparantly comes from Dune, and Frank Herbert apparantly got it in turn from an old Scandanavian expression meaning "landed council". So I coined the compound word waçhörsy from waçet, "land" + hörsy, "co...

I have been away from this project for quite a while, for which I apologize. Anyway, now posted on the wiki is information about forming the present tense, using the three object-person-marking auxiliary verbs. So now people can form sentences like: "I am walking away from the house" za æj hjalpti a...

The past tense of simple verbs is finalized, so now there is nothing stopping anyone from creating complete Præta sentences (as long as they are in the past tense). Like, Torkun æj til sxi Suli - I turned towards the ocean. or Dångut sym Rædæ - We burned down some houses. As an aside, I've started t...

I think I'm destined to be the official nitpicker, for which I apologize... Concerning yatu : just wanted to confirm that the word is beginning with a vowel cluster there, and isn't a misspelling of jatu ? Nitpicking is good, that's how mistakes get fixed. Like my mistake of writing <y> when I real...

I would like to assure everyone that I am not dead, and that I am still working on Præta. I'm working on the verb morphology now, which always tends to be the most complicated part of languages I create (what can I say? I like verbs :)) Anyway once I figure out how verbs ought to work I can start tr...

Many thanks for the vocative case, and for the explanation. Also, out of curiosity; I was looking at the example phrase læjö byraza til si sxikxi . I have seen the article listed elsewhere as se and the word for "city" as sikx ; do the alternate forms in the phrase represent features not yet reveal...

A similar idea. If I'm understanding the notes correctly, though, it's more like a 'they'/'them'/'their' that's separate from the usual one. Incidentally, con quesa, thanks for the continuing work. And if I could plead for a pet feature, would there be any possibility of having a vocative case in t...

Wait. 2 genders. I thought we planned to have 3 so we could have a neutral gender. Or was that just for the pronouns. I have found what I think is a more interesting way of being able to refer to people in the 3rd person without needing to specify their gender . Rooted in a process happening in con...

I'm making http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/User:Con_quesa/shireroth_conlang my own public scratchpad for the Shireroth langauge. Anything I change now is going to be on this wiki page now, instead of my google page. I changed ø to ö, mainly because I think it looks better than ø (even though /ø/ is t...

I don't have a big preference on a priori versus copied. It would be nice to have a few words that are easily recognizable (like Kaiser), but it would also be nice to have some uniquely Shirerithian ones. Maybe...maybe modern Shirerithian is a combination of Brookshirerithian with the language of t...

I think one of Nick's points was to make Praeta more than vaguely Germanic to encourage use of the language. I think there are many of us that would hesitate to use the language if it feels and looks too different, and if we hesitate to use it, the point in having a Shirerithian language disappears...

Well, alrighty then. Glad to be on board :) Malliki, I think I falsely interperated your comment as hostility toward myself, and I apologize for that. So, from what I gather, Shireroth is to be the dominant langauge of a multiethnic and multicultural state, in something like the way that Latin was t...

Also I notice that this community seems to have put some thought into using 3rd person singular pronouns and being mindful of gender. Personally I am male and have no problem being refered to as "he" or "him". Are there some guidelines about what the community considers appropriate in that respect?

Hello! I am con quesa from the zompist bulletin board. Kaiser Ikol II registered on the ZBB and requested a conlanger to continue working on the Shireroth langauge that was apparantly (barely) started and then abandoned by the original creator. I thought that sounded like a cool thing to do, so here...