Cool! What kinds of pronouns can we generate with this ruleset? Start by picking a consonant C1 C1 = "X" Then pick a vowel V1 V1 = "E" The vowels are all E or I sounds in English. Pronouns like that will be more recognizable, but really limit how weird you can get. 9/x
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C1="X" Let's change V1 to be a little more specific about the sound. V1="EH" Now we need a V2, a vowel sound that is similar to V1, but distinguishable. V2="EE" And last we need some suffixes S1 and S2. Usually M, S and RS, but feel free to get weird. S1="M" S2="RS" 10/x
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So here's our new pronoun set: C1="X" V1="EH" V2="EE" S1="M" S2="R/S" Subjective: Xeh Objective: Xeem Possessive: Xeers Try saying it out loud. "Xeh is such a rad human." "I had a great time with xeem" "It was so easy to adopt xeer new pronouns." 11/x
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Let's try another! This time WEIRDER. The root consonant will have a second version C2, and the root vowel will be something other than an "E" sound. But we'll stick to the common suffixes. C1="GR" V1="OH" C2="GL" V2="UH" S1="R" S2="S" 12/x
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"Gro is kinda shy, but I still like glur. Gro shared glus meal with me." Definitely weirder. We can see how moving away from "E" vowels changes things. The "OH" sound is especially confusing and might be worth avoiding. What kinds of pronouns can *you* generate? 13/x
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Replying to @verinaut @cavesofqud
k, so to play with the principles illustrated here, i hacked together some code to generate pretty weird but not utterly patternless pronouns at https://pastebin.com/k2tD36mu sample sets: che / cheb / ches zua / tzuan / zuasz thi / the / thir thy / thaum / thiz zhua / zhoyn / zharl
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Replying to @chaosprime @cavesofqud
Hell yes! Cannot wait to dig into this
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Replying to @verinaut @cavesofqud
v2 up: https://pastebin.com/7YQbjjNy much improved results and has capability to generate pronouns resembling "it", thx
@phyphor just gonna post one output sample: tho / thot / thurl / thurls / thotself tho is here / look at thot / with thurl friend / that is thurls / or by thotself2 replies 5 retweets 13 likes -
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okay, as of the current CoQ update, pronoun generation is based on logic similar to this
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I went to buy CoQ, at least in part because of this, and realised I already had it. So, err, I guess I'm buying it for a friend, instead!
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