#409

The Second Viennese School of linguistics has decreed that all sentences are to be composed of the same twelve basic phonemes in various orders, each appearing in exactly one place in the “phone row”. Phonemes can be repeated, alternated, or separated with pauses, but this does not change the base meaning. The set of allowed phonemes is arranged symmetrically with regards to place and manner of articulation, so negating a statement is done by saying it upside down. Development of a writing system should be straightforward.

#402

You might be familiar with the nominative and accusative, and maybe the ergative or some locative cases, but here are some other good case assignments for your nouns:

If you have a noun case that frames nouns as background information (with respect to NOUN), and it is primarily used in legal or business documents, then you should put the noun in the BRIEF CASE.

If you have a noun case that is usually used to describe location in a far off place, usually used for travel, you put the noun in the SUIT CASE.

If you have a noun case that topicalizes hypothetical situations with low probability, the case used named for the boyfriend of the linguist who first described it, as the first description of it was actually used as a marriage proposal. This is the JUSTIN CASE.

#400

Use the word “zɪgʔʌzɪgʔa” to mean “a type of lover who works hard to fit in with your life, because they love you so much and are willing to put in effort to make your relationship work,” that is usually untranslated. Known mostly from a translation of a traditional poem in your conlang. Taken from the earlier translation, because I could not find the latest, “Prithee, canst thou tell me what thou desirest? What thine heart truly desireth?// By my troth! I will tell thee what I long for, what in my deepest soul I long for.// I pray, willst thou tell me what thou art thirsting after, what in thy deepest bosom, thou art thirsting after.// I want a, I want a// I really, really want a zɪgʔʌzɪgʔa