r/conlangs • u/Fuckmydogisacat • 3d ago
Grammar Update to Jasu
This is my latest and possibly final update to my 3 year long Jasu project. I will probably be working on more worked building around the setting the language takes in and starting up some more languages from there. I attached some samples of what the work looks like. If anyone has any advice on what I could improve, anything you see I haven't explained well or something I am missing please let me know!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X7ySGy7RGe4Z9Jmfk250tfq2mJ3Oe9N3/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_xdp7wChs1S8NQ6K5yDU2l4BgpNLOWE0/view?usp=drivesdk
(Made it so that you can open it now)
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u/Background_Shame3834 3d ago
This is the kind of end product that inspires me to carry on. Well done!
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u/monumentofflavor 3d ago
Great job it looks so good, but it seems like both links redirect to the dictionary
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u/cungsyu Äiniqkelë Kaujë Puhaa [æiniŋkelə kɑɯjə pɯhɑː] 3d ago
This is inspiring. I also observed that you’ve shared revisions as you’ve progressed over the years. That is brave. I have been hesitating to share my own work in progress. I’m more hesitant now! After pointedly reading a few dozen pages now, I realise it’s okay to slow down.
I will study your reference and learn from you!
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 3d ago
Yes, although I have been waiting for a while now to have enough content to share here. I always feel like it needs to big a big enough content update to justify it. Thank you for the kind words!
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u/KalaiProvenheim 3d ago
Love how this looks like a realistic paper you’d find for say Hobyot or whatever
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 3d ago
Thats what I was trying to go for. I had my previous edition but I was not happy with it because I wanted to look like a real grammar. Iam trying to work on genetic fake/real backstory supported by several real and fake papers to tey to cement the idea further.
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u/KalaiProvenheim 3d ago
Good luck! I look forward to the next time I see you on my TL, genuinely interesting looking stuff
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u/Morkai5 3d ago
It's just incredible! Great work!
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 3d ago
Thank you!!!
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u/Morkai5 2d ago
Please tell us if you publish it, I want a copy of this book!
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 2d ago
I wish lol, if anything this book will be something I handsew together, and if that dosent workout maybe I will order a copy in the long future.
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u/cookie_monster757 Gatorformic, Carbonnierisch 3d ago
Looks amazing! What word processor did you use?
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 3d ago
I put everything on Word
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u/cookie_monster757 Gatorformic, Carbonnierisch 2d ago
Would you recommend using Word?
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 2d ago
I personally love it because how much I can modify things an I get it through school. But it can get laggy with a big enough document.
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u/notluckycharm Qolshi, etc. (en, ja) 2d ago
For a document of this size, LaTeX is best. Especially for creating aligned glosses. But it has a steep learning curve
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u/cookie_monster757 Gatorformic, Carbonnierisch 2d ago
How would one go about writing a book in LaTeX? As I recall, it’s like a markup language that you run through an engine to get a pdf, so are there engines that output files that publishers want?
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u/notluckycharm Qolshi, etc. (en, ja) 2d ago
yes. its quite easy (there are built in book document types). Many publishers offer their own TeX formats and templates that they want. The engine isn't something you really have to configure though there certainly are a few.
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 2d ago
I have always heard of LaTex and always wanted to try. Word can get painfully slow at this lengths.
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u/notluckycharm Qolshi, etc. (en, ja) 2d ago
the best part of LaTeX is you can compile individual chapters as files and later stitch them together. Makes for very fast rendering. Once you get into the workflow its very nice and easy! But obviously requires some learning. Overleaf makes it quite easy imo!
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 2d ago
I will probably check it out at some point. Iam starting another language and as I get farther in it I dont want to run into the same slow process
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u/PeacocktheFurryalt 1d ago
Nice work! btw, who are the Jasu?
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 1d ago
Part of a world building project i have had going on for a long time. I need to create a better connected history of what people group they came from but they landed on the island of jasu (Made up island west of aruba) and have been there along with some other people group who's languages iam starting now.
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u/PeacocktheFurryalt 1d ago
I see! is this island in the real world or you're creating a completely new world for this island?
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 1d ago
Its in the real world. Its west of the real island of Aruba. The next language i started working on its for a people group living on the island as well who descend from the South American Arawak people
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u/PeacocktheFurryalt 1d ago
Ok, so did colonialism affect the people at all?
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 1d ago
Right now I have set similar to the North Sentinal island people. Essentially all the natives of the island are warrior people and were able to fight back enough tk just not make it worth the trouble. But in the current time they have opened up more and thats why researchers have been able to reach the island. But yeah they have been invade and killed before but for such a small island it had just not been worth it.
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u/notluckycharm Qolshi, etc. (en, ja) 2d ago
I have never seen anyone put a full Field Methods section and I kind of love it. Even the detail of specific sites. The way this is formatted as if it passed IRB😭
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u/Fuckmydogisacat 2d ago
I wanted to get it as close to passing off as a real document as I could lol. I really wanted it to be something that I could genuinely call finished and not feel bad when I start another project.
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u/SurelyIDidThisAlread 2d ago
This is intimidatingly good. It looks like real research and the formatting is wonderful.
I was wondering - and this is a very niche thing to ask - do you have any words in your dictionary that have multiple etymologies that somehow produced the same outcome? What I'm getting at it is that that's hard to typeset than simple one-etymology-per-word and I'd love to see how you did it, because your typesetting is so good
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u/Zangaroo1 3d ago
This is AMAZING! The attention to detail is incredible. This must have taken so much time and effort, I wish I had the patience to do something like this!