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9 years ago - Sean Boettger(Spike1)
 Sean Boettger Spike1 | Languages are a funny thing. They are there to create a way for us to communicate ideas, yet due to their random creation and evolutionary nature, they obstruct that very purpose.
Meet "Constructed Languages". These are some really awesome languages that were created by people in an effort to (usually) make a regular language. By regular language, I mean things like every noun ending with o, and every adjective ending with a. I've been interested in learning a new language for a while, due to the abomination that English is (Letters change pronunciation, grammar rules are defied continuously, many words have been muted or become archaic, etc). I was learning German a little bit back, it's a fairly nice language, but it still has a ton of idiosyncrasies. So, I've decided to learn German, Ido(A constructed language), and Latin! Horay for confusing my mind so much that I muddle every language together! Ido is my real goal out of all of this, due to it's regular nature. Like seriously, it's really cool :D. Take the word Bono (Good). It ends in an o, so that's the noun form. Want to make it an adjective? Just change the ending to an a (Bona)! The entire language is like that, from just one word you can make almost every other word that relates to it. Latin is also a really good goal. Latin is the basis for most languages, so learning it should be a good way to understand the root meanings behind words, in any language. Ido and Latin go hand in hand as they share many similar words. I'll be documenting my language learning in the blog, simply so I have a place to document what I learn in case I forget :D. On a more website related note, I'm going to add a tagging system to the blog, so if you're just here for the gamedev stuff you can filter out this nonsense :). Anyway, be back in two days with the house posted! |
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