BlogHide Resteemsjoeydurso (25)in aetherverse • 4 years agoAetherverse Conlangs: UnispeakContinuing with the Aetherverse xenolinguistics series, I thought it'd be funny in The Aetherverse to imagine what leftist "educators" might do to the English language in the distant future. I…joeydurso (25)in aetherverse • 4 years agoAetherverse Conlangs: Rosc (language)Fifth in the Aetherverse language series. I created Rosc pretty early on in the process of writing The Aetherverse. I wanted it to sound Slavic but it has a lot of elements of Arabic/broadly Semitic…joeydurso (25)in aetherverse • 4 years agoAetherverse Conlangs: Shatarin (language)In The Aetherverse the Shatarins are a horde of genocidal religious zealots and pedophile cannibals, but ironically their language is fairly pleasant. I modeled it on Farsi and Arabic and created it…joeydurso (25)in aetherverse • 4 years agoAetherverse Conlangs: Standard ScythianI went a little overboard with the Scythian conlang of The Aetherverse by making three extra dialects distinct from the standard form. One is supposed to be so influenced by leftist ideology that it…joeydurso (25)in aetherverse • 4 years agoAetherverse Conlangs: TellurianTellurian was the second conlang I invented for The Aetherverse. It was fun to construct because I used consistent sound changes from real-world Latin to derive Tellurian vocabulary. Because it's so…joeydurso (25)in scifi • 4 years agoAetherverse Conlangs: Old MithneshiFirst in my series on the fictional languages of The Aetherverse. Old Mithneshi was the earliest conlang I developed for the novel and its supporting short stories. Originally it was meant to be a…joeydurso (25)in sff • 4 years agoConlanging 101Anyone who knows me could tell you I'm a HUGE language nerd. When I wrote "The Aetherverse," I decided to take being a polyglot to the next level and invented a series of constructed languages (or…joeydurso (25)in writing • 5 years agoThe Rough Writer blog for aspiring authors & self-publishers!The Rough Writer blog is up and running! (Mostly) sci-fi author, blogger and casual sax player Joseph (Joey) D'Urso talks writing, self-publishing, and living in a barely literate society. Subscribe…
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