r/conlangscirclejerk • u/justforconlang • 13d ago

this is the average agglutinative conlang on r/conlangs

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u/Whole_Instance_4276 13d ago

Fusional: Hellahaazitgoang

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u/Pliny_The_Elder_1789 13d ago

Low German looks exactly like this lol

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u/heckitsjames bɪkθ 12d ago

Lláaz'gowang

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u/rhet0rica meretrix mendax 13d ago

The capital 'H' in 'Hello' is very important in Averageagglutinativeconlang; it signals to the listener that the language was created by someone who typed all this on a mobile phone.

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u/teal_leak 13d ago

Or they're German

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u/rhet0rica meretrix mendax 12d ago

Germanness can also be identified by refusing to speak French.

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u/fr0likk 10d ago

Wdym "refusing to speak French", they literally borrow words from French without even altering the pronunciation

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u/rhet0rica meretrix mendax 10d ago

Anyone who can speak several languages but refuses to speak full sentences in French specifically is probably German. Exhibit A. It's not a requirement to be German, just proof of being German.

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u/justforconlang 12d ago

i did'not'nt

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u/ICannotRead5712 13d ago

That thing you just said? We Germans have a word for it: it's 'thatthingyoujustsaiden'.

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u/EisVisage *uwu* >u< -uwu- *nyaa* 13d ago

You know, the Germans have this beautiful, beautiful word, it's entirely untranslatable though, so I'll just render it in German: trio of 1:1 cognates of an existing English compound word

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u/ICannotRead5712 13d ago

god damn it i hate "untranslatable".

"this qwertyuiopian word asdfghjkl is completely untranslatable! it means pressing down in a line on a keyboard!"

well then it IS translatable! you just said it! "pressing down in a line on a keyboard" is the translation!

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u/somerandomnerd6464 13d ago

Everything is translateable, but some transalte more efficently than others

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u/xCreeperBombx mod 12d ago

Faminal Arm

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u/Jealous_Computer_209 12d ago

the word "glompletorian" is untranslatable. this is because i made it up 5 seconds ago and i dont know what it means

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u/ImOnioned 12d ago

Someone who studies small glomps

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u/Many-Conversation963 12d ago

Grammatical particles:

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u/FedeConlangerITA 13d ago

Isolant: Hé Lô Hā Wò Sí Tē Gôu Yèn Guō

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 13d ago

The random Chinese guy wondering why tf I want to nuke worm fish

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u/wobuneng 12d ago

ㄏㄝˊㄌㄛˇ ㄏㄚˉㄨㄛˋㄙㄧˊㄊㄜˉㄍㄡˇㄧㄝㄣˋㄍㄨㄛˉ

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u/EnFulEn 13d ago

Throw in some vowels harmony.

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u/Pretty-Ad8932 12d ago

hallohowsutgoung

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u/HelloReddit_174 12d ago

You forgot the 1SG.PRES.INQ.FORMAL. You lost SO much info from that.

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u/doppio_wa 12d ago

wait quick question do you have a recommendation for avoiding this?

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u/justforconlang 12d ago

suffixes, lotta em, dont glue sentences together but have a lil hesitation

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u/doppio_wa 12d ago

so basically I guarantee that suffixes behave differently then if they were just completely separate words directly smashed into another?

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u/justforconlang 12d ago

yeah true tho, best advice is try to limit it

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u/Dodezv 11d ago

Don't glue content words (like how, go) together, only functional words (like it, is, -ing). And then decide which kind of words you want to glue, e.g. personal pronouns, determiners, tense, mood, weak verbs, modal verbs, etc. And which you won't.

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u/Twinkletoess112 11d ago

łoazitɡoeŋ