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Our /lang/uage

Name: Gadget 2010-10-19 19:55

This is going to be a long post. I might separate it into parts.

/lang/, stay with me for a second here, what if we (the /lang/ collective) were to write, publish, and fluently speak our own language? Wouldn't that be interesting? You remember when you were kids you always had dreams of concocting your own language to speak with your friends and stuff? Same concept, only you probably have the capacity, with a little patience, ingenuity, and help from others, to actually ACCOMPLISH it. This thought came to me a couple days ago, I was listening to "Prenzlaurberg" by Beirut, and since the song sounds like slurred gibberish, I decided to transcribe it the way I heard it/maybe fudge what I hear a little and have it take on its own meaning. I'm going to post a small portion of the song, what I think it would say in the new language. Completely by ear, make your own assumptions for any loanwords that it looks like I used

Prenzlaurforue / District of Prenzlaur (forue being a suffix)
Sol la vor ' manie fonore / The sunshine ' [on] balcony's edge
Zlait crie eurnre remoir / Even when people lament
Sol la vor ' manie fonore / The sunshine ' [on] balcony's edge
Zlait crie em nol dem deed / Even when I'm old and dead
Aicanter toni, zlait au crie / Singing tonight, even still
An lo eisis vai ensom foture / And look, [the] moon's face tells [of the] future
Addolot sem sair por la vire, soilar / [The] neverending sea dances at lit. "the"; in context: "its" call, shaking
Em wachet ver por la vire, taim, taim.../ He abruptly stills at his call, wait, wait...

Literally any question/comments/criticism are welcome, I really hope it can become a success.

Name: Gadget 2010-10-19 22:37

Hey OP here, first of all thanks for the support, you guys are awesome, here are my thoughts:

Cyrillic could be interesting, also might be our best option, my first thought was Latin, but as >>6 said, its WAY too overused, but I always thought that constructing original characters might be too daunting. I would really enjoy using inflections. I was originally taking influences from Latin, Old French, all the usuals, but it would be engaging to use several oddball influences as well.

A supposed title (of course merely a working codename)
Лангиан

Grammar might have to be decided as we go, mainly because I'm kind of inexperienced in advanced linguistics (fancy way to say "lazy"). I also wanted to make myself available to answer any questions on the pronunciations of those lyrics I made up. Mite b cool if someone were to put them into Cyrillic...just saying

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