Writer, worldbuilder, conlanger, general creator of things. I'm using this channel as a place to put all the creations I'm proud of, so the topics may be a bit scattered. I might include my thoughts on math here, or even some essays! Eek!
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Ooh, I just _love_ how "the beginning causes the end" is written! Idk why that exactly, I really liked most of what was presented here, but that stood out. And I believe that the last example to be deciphered would mean something like "The beginning being the same as the end implies time not existing".
Hiya, really liked your nonlinear conlang! I think I'll hang around for your conlanging videos, maybe I'll watch some worldbuilding videos (the gravity magic video looks interesting!) but unfortunately while I like the idea of worldbuilding it doesn't really capture my attention like conlanging does...
Thank you! And that's fair, not all my videos are gonna be for everyone. Comes with having something of a medley channel, but I will have another short nonlinear video coming up fairly soon while a big video is in progress.
I've read this story a few times and new things popped out at me hearing it read aloud, it's just so good and I love the emotion that's added in your speaking the dialogue ^^ (Alt. comment: IT IS TIME TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE)
Thank you! I think I've redone some of the descriptions since you last read it, and I tried to make the dialogue sound good. ❤️ (the temptation is SO REAL to reupload the video with an end card that's just the door but it says LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, lol)
this is very similar to the ideas I've been using to create and improve a system for creating chaos magic sigils! tbh the whole thing evolved past being constrained by the tenets of chaos magic and is blossoming into a whole highly syncretic+agnostic belief system, but it still started as an attempt to understand sigilization in magic rituals. this might inspire me to make a video about it too, so thanks^^ (also as a writer and personal language variation enjoyer love how you omit 'e' after 'l' in words like squiggl and angls!!)
Fascinating! Your language reminds me somewhat of propositional logic. Was that an inspiration? I see you have a symbol for "is" but there are different kinds of "is". There's identity as in "John is my father". There's also proper inclusion, as in "John is a father" ("X is a member of the set of Ys). Do you distinguish those? There's locative and possessive usages too but I think you've covered them. How about generalities? "Birds sing" refers to a typical case. It does not guarantee that any one individual bird can sing. Nor does it mean that all birds sing all the time. Finally, proper names. Do you have a way to distinguish, say, person called "Star" from a statement about an actual star?
I come from a mathematical background, so logic was definitely an inspiration (at one point, I wanted to try developing the lang from the bottom up using only logic and math as the starting points, and there are still elements of that in the current version). The lang is still very much in its beginnings, so there's a lot of grammatical features yet to add, like identity vs proper inclusion and proper nouns. Right now, the language really just deals with generalities (other than the pronouns "you" and "I"), and the next thing I should add is the equivalent of articles. Just something without ambiguity (my mind would rather not have to rely on context, ideally).
It's Moons by Patricia Taxxon! If you liked that, you should listen to her other stuff, it's really good. I put all the music I included in the description.
Awaiting the followup video on ultrahuman advanced theoretical weighting with bated breath ^^ (ETA: Jokes aside, this is a really cool video and I can't wait to see more of this magic system and the world it lies within. Also love the lil guys so much ^^)
Oh I'm glad you asked. They serve for the royal family of the city as guards, warriors, and messengers as well as working on official construction projects and operating the elevators. There's a lot that weighting is useful for in this world (especially when you factor in flight)!
hi, cool stuff. rn it seems to me, u somehow splited mindmap teknique into dictionary of core pieces, and making conlang of it. its not just "non-linear", it might be actually really useful as extension for mindmaps. thing feels fresh, clear and native af. imagine solving complex problem, and be able to put all puzzle pieces onto the same page, with no boilerplate, just by translation to this language. ..to write the placement, to develop/unwrap branches, ... also skip obvious intersteps to make script laconic. Although, if it possible to "inline" english text into conlang, in a diegetic way of? Oh yeah, its ur conlang after all, but it got me scratch-charged from one a bit)
This sounds very cool, using this for (or making a similar conlang specifically designed for) mindmapping. I've been exploring thoughts of using this sort of language for math, and using it to solve complex problems would be awesome. There's obvs a lot of terms missing, but it could be worked into the lang alongside the more conversational stuff.
This is some cool stuff man💪 With all the cool stuff with planes of reality and such, it does make me wonder if you were inspired "Three Body Problem" by Cixin Liu. That trilogy also has some cool stuff about dimensions, the state of the universe, aliens, and so on.
Чох гашанк вiдеjoдур мен да сунij тiл жаратыр'ам бу қонуштіг'ім тіл герчақ'та исм'ландірір'дар зиро бу белəнціj деел хатда, мен бір күн тосдар'імо дедім кіj кел'ін үз оро'міз'до түрктіллі бір тіл жарат'ақ оммо конленг кіміj жоқ. ондар да ҳабул етдi'дар үзү да кіj бу тіл менім зіро jo до һеш діггот'імо да деел бу тіл біржа антігадір севебі бір оз jуқсал'діп тақдім едчем оммо менім үз менліj'ім Піерро тілі менінчүн чоқ деерліjдір оні элэ тақдім еларам кіj һар інсан дуj'сун, біл'сін шүнкі бу тіл ужэ менім менліj'ім'дір үзел мосолодір! Саҳ ҷан боласыз раһмет! Gracio den kreatoro de Pierro linguo!
Mi vide ti linguo por primer Nomuli conlango oficiál Youtub canalo en les comentarios. Tu memorán, tu disto el sorcio por oprendar ti linguo Pierro? Saludos den la Turcia VIVA PIERRO(Sorido, googlo está no heve emojo sobro aŭ (ñavarde) por eso mi use la artikla sankto LoL:()
Never delved into conlangs and all I know is some random tidbits from recommend videos, so maybe terrible question. Is not every sentence in english language somewhat of a container? Like you start with word with capital letter and end it with . or ? or !.
Very interestig video and concept. I would have apreciated a bit more explaining about dark matter, but what you included in the video is good mind candy to search online. So fair enough. I would love to imagine that somewhere in a remot corner of cosmos, som consciusnes just imagined biped, almost hairless monkeys with all the tones that wheat have that just as them, make stories and imagine other live forms.
Thanks! And dark matter is difficult bc science knows next to nothing about it, and so I left it intentionally pretty vague in my worldbuilding of this universe. But it would def be worth it to flesh it out a bunch more. The fun thing is that Gen did not randomly think of humans when it created them. It was going off memory...
Amazing video! It reminds me of non-configurationality so it could be worth taking a look into. Also what if a container is in the container of a noun or verb? Also what if a symbol is placed in the sentence container without any container on it of a verb or noun? I think that could create far more artistic things, for example what if a symbol that is not in a container is a verb, and the emit one looks like it could hold encompass another symbol, in that case the verb would be the container of the object.
A lot of good questions! I've since changed how the grammar/syntax works (containers are not nearly as important, and verbs can point freely from subject to object), but these kinds of questions are still cool to explore. I want the lang to be artistic and creative, and the more flexible I can make it while still preserving meaning, the better.
what are the languages you know? I feel like you could find this non-linear sentence structure in many agglutinative languages (why is there a red squiggly line under "agglutinative"? It is the correct spelling). For example, even though it may not sound as natural or prescriptively not correct grammatically all the time, you could say both "Kapıyı kapatır mısın?" and "Kapatır mısın kapıyı?" in Turkish and it would have the exact same meaning (it means "Could you close the door?" btw). Since the words carry their "describers" along with them as their suffixes, you can practically move them around. The 2 words in the example sentence are divided to their individual parts as kapı-yı and kapat-ır-mı-sın, and these individual suffixes could potentially be thought of as individual markers which allow the final word to be placed anywhere in the sentence while still keeping their intended meaning, am I right? Good video btw, subscribed. Your minecraft videos look good I will check them out
I know English and some Swedish, German, and Latin. I know Latin is very much like that, and I think Nahuatl (tho I haven't learned any of it)? I was thinking of this as I was developing it, and I've since changed the grammar a fair bit. Not to say it's a bad idea (there's def a lot of merit to it if done right), but it's not the direction I decided to go with. Right now, the syntax looks a lot more similar to UNLWS, with verbs able to be pointed directly from symbol to symbol without the need for containers. Containers still exist, but have more niche purposes. This is all to say: I need to eventually make another video about this lang haha
Cool language! I love seeing your passion shine through in this video! I'm a little surprised no one else has mentioned this yet, but your language reminds me of the written language "Heptapod B", originally mentioned in Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life" and later in the movie adaptation "Arrival". Heptapod B is similarly non-linear and one must know the layout of the entire sentence before starting to write it. Your written language also slightly reminds me of some old, obscure writing system for numbers that I can't remember the name of for the life of me. Anyway, cool stuff!
Hi, very nice idea! I think in the case of multiple nouns in the sentence, the subject can just be the bigger one (this way you dont have to introduce new markers). Also, have you considered containers overlapping, kinda like a Venn diagram? This way you could have multiple verbs be used to one noun (which could be equivalent to an "and" symbol)
thank you! i already have a version of "and" where i connect multiple nouns to one verb (ive decided to not have verbs be in containers), but i really like the idea of a Venn Diagram like object, but don't know what it would mean exactly in the language lol
Great insights! Just a suggestion: a character set usually has a theme-ish specific stylistic appearance, where one can at a glance identify a multiple characters to be in the same language, even if they don't understand it at all. e.g. korean, simplified/trad. chinese, japanese (hiragana, katakana and kanji/chinese-ish characters)
Yeah, I'm trying to make my symbols have a distinct look unique to my style, but the emphasis is on making their meanings easily understandable. it's a balance
I imagine what could make such a language so cool is that reading it would involve first taking a global look at the entire sentence then zooming in to each of the individual words with all of their markers. It’s really cool cuz that kind of starting global and moving in feels very unique in languages. I imagine it’d be an interesting way to draw out the emotions of a text. Like, laying out the tone of a sentence so the reader has that information from the outset, which is then informed by what they go on to read and all the markers with it
yes, this exactly! I want a reader to have to explore works written in this language. make reading an adventure :0. and it gives the one writing so much room to put in artistic flair
This is a very cool idea, it could be a spoken language as well if each container type was a suffix or something. Then it would likely play out similar to a language with free word order
thanks! I've been developing the grammar in the days after I filmed this, and though in the video it could have been spoken like you said, now i dont think it's possible bc a lot of the grammar is more visual. like for many transitive verbs, the direct object is being pointed to by an arrow on the verb. tho also, what am I saying? it's not strictly IMPOSSIBLE to make it into a spoken language, it would just be really difficult. could be a fun exercise down the road, come to think of it. really the main difficulty would be the grammar since the content symbols can be spoken pretty easily
yeah! so there would be no "and" symbol bc you could just have multiple subjects connect to the same verb or multiple verbs connect to the same subject, etc.
I love seeing videos like this one where the person talking about their craft is so deeply passionate about it and the only reason the video exists is to show that passion. It reminds me why I love humans.
omg thank you! that's exactly the kind of thing I most wanna see in the world, and I'm glad I was able to make something that for others :) humans are awesome
toki! I think, for me, I would have it such that descriptors connect to the noun their describing. I'd also see verbs, as well as prepositions, as special kinds of descriptor: In many languages, including the local dialect where I'm from, verbs and adjectives behave very similarly grammatically. I like to think of them as states, with there being a sense of tense and aspect clarifying the way they're modifying the noun. For example, we say, "she eat" (past state) and "she eating" (present state), the same way we say, "she happy" (present state). There's also a neat feature in Mandarin Chinese, where prepositions can behave similar to verbs, or are technically verbs. For example, you'd say "I mount plane go England", rather than having a separate grammatical category to show your relation to the plane, as well as "I in school read book", where "in" (在) is the used as the verbal phrase "to be in". With this it becomes super easy to just connect noun to predicate to noun non-linearly without worrying about a bunch of parts of speech. You can also have some way of showing which noun is the agent or patient of the sentence, and also have some way to mark to show the subject (basically where to start reading from). Perhaps a small bubble between agent and predicate containers, and then little dashes around subject containers maybe. (Oyit9GF)
toki! I was actually thinking of solutions to these exact points over the past few days. I agree that verbs and adjectives being put on containers as describers makes a lot of sense, and it can be ambiguous whether or not a describer is a verb or an adjective--either could mean the same thing. Sort of like how "the dog is green" and "the green dog" mean the same thing. There are better examples out there, but it gets the point across. That's a cool example! I'm constantly intrigued by the diversity of ways different languages can describe the same sentence. And as a visual, pictorial language, a nonlinear lang has even more capacity to be straightforward and creative in its presentation. Like, I was thinking that situations like "going to..." "running to..." etc could be represented with a line starting at whatever container is moving and ending in an arrow at wherever they're moving towards. Gets the idea across. I like where this brainstorming is going, thanks for the ideas!
@@uluscri I had scribbled together an example yesterday with these ideas that I wanted to share, but it's 2024 and we can't have nice things (I've had bad experiences with links)... I also probably (definitely) got a few mistakes in there with respect to what was explained in the video. The phrase reads (or is supposed to read), "A life, unchanging, filled with time and trapped in space, reveals unpredictability and brings forth a motion that gives rise to chaos and to life." I uploaded it to imgur, the code at the bottom is its address.
@@stephenwaldron2748 oh shit, that's really cool! i tried putting that code after imgur.com/ in the webaddress, then imgur.com/gallery/ but neither worked ;_; idk how to use imgur very well, if you couldn't tell haha. where should i put the code? also, that sentence is awesome, especially the "filled with time, trapped in space" bit. now i wanna see the drawn version even more haha
that's a cool way of looking at it, hell yeah! I'm still thinking of a number system (right now it only goes to 3, lol), and that could be a fun way of representing zero
the discussion of tunneling reminds me of Border Gaurds and Quarantine by Greg Egan. more sci-fi than fantasy, but really mindfuckingly cool. in "Border Gaurds" the humans play "quantum soccer" where instead of a solid ball, the "ball" is spread out into a field and the players run in circles trying to build waves of the right frequencies to kick most of the ball into the goal. in Quarentine, a disabled woman is found missing from the psych ward. her door was locked and there's no evidence of a forced entry. our protagonist, a private eye invastigating the mystery, gets wrapped up into playing security for a classified research project trying to determine if "observation" is a process in the human brain, and what happens if it is *turned off.*
