Aside from learning natural languages, I also invent languages for fun. When I was a kid, the hobby started out as me scrambling English words to make them look completely different than English, sometimes rearraging the sentence order a little, and then saying the words in a "funny" accent (not imitating a specific real accent, just enunciating strangely to sound vaguely foreign.)
I even created a lang once that was all numbers. Every number was the place of the letter in the alphabet. Ex: Elephant = 5-12-5-16-8-1-14-20....Yeah, definitely a one time endeavor because I didn't have the alphabet memorized <em>that</em> well, so decoding just to read it back got exhausting. But I still had fun writing a full page like that. That one my teacher saw me writing and looked at me strangely all day. haha
When I got a little older, around my teens, I started to pay closer attention to semantics and sentence structure. So I would create little languages in my stories for my alien or fantasy characters to speak that had some kind of basic language rules as if they were real and their own thing. The most I could do back then was twist around English language structure.
Now, in my 20s, I have a lang that I want to become more than just snippet sentences and vocabulary words, so I've started seriously studying linguistics. There is so much I didn't know about language, it's ridiculous. lol It can be a eye-crossing headache, but it's all really fun.
Examples of conlangs: Klingon and Esperanto. <em>Dothraki and Valyrian</em> of Game of Thrones. <em>Castithan and Irathient</em> of Defiance. <em>Trigedasleng</em> of The 100. All of <em>those</em> (in italics) were created by my conlang idol David J. Peterson.
Anyone else have this hobby or have an interest in linguistics?
Ah, okay - thank you, Rahny Jae
Trigedasleng means Tree (Tri) Gathering (Geda) Language (Sleng)
The name of the Grounder Tribe that speaks it is Trigedakru. Kru = people. They're the Woods Clan that lives in the forest that the story takes place in, so they're also called Trikru or Trigeda meaning the Tree People.
There's a wiki for the lang that's very detailed if you'd like to check it out some time.
Yeah, Gary Shannon seemed like a nice guy. Trigedasleng looks funny. If <em>ge</em> can mean <em>get</em>, then does the name means "try to get the slang" or "three get that lang" or something? probably not
I love Kalusa, too!
My favorites are the ones I mentioned from David, especially Trigedasleng because it's like...Old English backwards...no, I can explain that better. Basically, the show takes place nearly 100 years in the future. So the lang is a simplified and mangled version of modern english. When it's spoken you can hear some English words or the modern English concepts that the trigedasleng words dervied from. So if you listen long enough to the characters who speak it, you can understand the message they're conveying without knowing the actual words and direct translations.
Examples of how I translate the speech just from hearing it.
Trigedasleng -- what I hear -- actual translation.
Ai gaf <em>gouthru klir</em>. ---> <em>Go-through clear</em>. ---> I seek <em>safe passage</em>.
<em>Ge smak daun</em>, gyon <em>op</em> nodotaim! ---> <em>Get</em> (minus the t) <em>smack down</em>, get-on <em>up</em> 'nother (another minus the a) time. ---> Get knocked down, get back up!
I love that. Reminds me of when I use to scramble English or enunciate/pronounce certain sounds or words differently as a kid, only this is tons more developed of course.
Um, I like some of the ideas in Bolak, Ithkuil, aUI, Kelen, Kalusa (and I like reading Jespersen, so I'll say Novial, even though I never looked into it).
