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  • Denali Christianson replied to the topic Word building philology(language making) in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 6 months ago

    @crazywriter

    I like what you said there. That’s very true. A word can sound cool, but if it means something bad, then it loses its beauty. And vise-versa, the word can sound kinda mediocre or even weird, but if it has a good meaning, it has a natural beauty.

    So when I make a language, I usually try to use a construction similar to Latin. Since I’m guessing you have very little clue how the Latin system works, basically you divide each word into the type it is (noun, verb, adjective, etc.) then you create endings that mean a certain thing. For example, you’d have something like the word terr, but then you’d add an “a” on the end and that would mean that it acts as a noun in the sentence. If, on the other hand, you add an “ae” on the end, that means that it functions as an indirect object. That probably sounded realllly confusing…

    Let me know what I need to elaborate/try again on! 🙂

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