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    oi, chinese has a much easier gender system. mostly because it doesn't exist. actually, it doesn't have lots of things. it doesn't even have grammatical number! I mean, really, who needs all this stuff which only serves to confuse people! silly westerners.
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    eh, my capslock key doesn't get much use otherwise, so I just use that.
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    pfft just get a compose key. āéìôǔỹ and stuff.
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    english is defined by "wtf why does that not work the way this does? it's the same damn thing!"
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    chinese is amazing for things like this.
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    so 4^0 is "one", 4^1 is "many", it stops being a base system and starts just appending random manies. 4^2 is lots? lots-lot-lots-many-many-three, then, I suppose, would be seventy-five?
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    without any motivation to, it is very doubtful that even you will ever speak it. do it anyway if you want to, though. it is fun.
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    it also does not scale for time travel. "it will be yesterday for me tomorrow" starts making perfect sense. :( tbf, 'linguistic consistency' is a good goal that really doesn't exist in ni+1 NL's, but anything building off english is going to be hard-pressed to reach that. I can see why.
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    I'd rather settle on regular pronouns, too, but really, it doesn't matter if you just use the damn infinitive as long as you specify the subject.
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    if you don't have anything in your conlang that doesn't already exist in ni+1 natural language, it's not worth having. natural languages have at least the "it's our culture" aspect to it. no verb conjugations is easy or impossible depending on how much qualifies as conjugation. if only...
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    wait, gibberish is a cipher? I thought it was a language that was spontaneously regenerated every time.
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    code. or nomenclator. that is not a language.
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    and then when you get around to the actually language, you throw out half the glyphs because you don't nd them I did. :/
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    SVO = subj-verb-obj. I think. "Is it not?"
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    there is no such thing as backward word order. in any case, it's not like it matters that much. well, YMMV?
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    never desgin grammar based on english. it will fail horribly. because english doesn't have a grammar. it's just an abomination of rules and exceptions.
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