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awl: Even though #Maycan is pretty close to death (not dead yet because I still use it in everday life) it might be seeing a resurrection soon. I'm thinking about it more and more. The language and the society that uses it, shapes it. Who knows, it might just really die, or it might really live. We'll see.
awl's status on Thursday, 09-Nov-17 17:30:56 UTC
Even though #Maycan is pretty close to death (not dead yet because I still use it in everday life) it might be seeing a resurrection soon. I'm thinking about it more and more. The language and the society that uses it, shapes it. Who knows, it might just really die, or it might really live. We'll see.
awl: In an effort to less homogenise my old language creation project I'm re-thinking #Maycan yet again, this time in a more fell swoop. Less obvious Turkic roots, easier to speak maybe (at least easier for me to follow through, hopefully by the end it'll be the same for any one).
awl's status on Thursday, 13-Apr-17 01:07:30 UTC
In an effort to less homogenise my old language creation project I'm re-thinking #Maycan yet again, this time in a more fell swoop. Less obvious Turkic roots, easier to speak maybe (at least easier for me to follow through, hopefully by the end it'll be the same for any one).
awl: The #Maycan word for 'lake' (ehale) has a strange evolution. In the ancient form of the language there were no separate words for bodies of water be they river, stream; or lake, sea, etc. The words would either be (esuora) meaning 'standing water' or (esuoka) meaning 'flowing water'. The first comprehensive written forms of the language were abjadic meaning consonants are written and vowels are assumed; so (ehale) comes from a misunderstanding of (ehela) which translates to 'gathering'. This refers to Lake Baikal, which they called Pahela ehale, storm's gathering.
awl's status on Friday, 03-Feb-17 01:29:02 UTC
The #Maycan word for 'lake' (ehale) has a strange evolution. In the ancient form of the language there were no separate words for bodies of water be they river, stream; or lake, sea, etc. The words would either be (esuora) meaning 'standing water' or (esuoka) meaning 'flowing water'. The first comprehensive written forms of the language were abjadic meaning consonants are written and vowels are assumed; so (ehale) comes from a misunderstanding of (ehela) which translates to 'gathering'. This refers to Lake Baikal, which they called Pahela ehale, storm's gathering.
awl: Tmw you think #Maycan is Polish because of acute accents on consonants
awl's status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-17 17:20:44 UTC
Tmw you think #Maycan is Polish because of acute accents on consonants
awl: @scribus Ha, astute. I mean it was designed to be universal for all the peoples of Europe, but that's what precisely I don't like about it. Maybe #Maycan sounds terrible to other people, but I can say I created it more than jumbled different languages together. To me language is beautiful because it's unique, quirky.
awl's status on Thursday, 22-Dec-16 02:24:54 UTC
@scribus Ha, astute. I mean it was designed to be universal for all the peoples of Europe, but that's what precisely I don't like about it. Maybe #Maycan sounds terrible to other people, but I can say I created it more than jumbled different languages together. To me language is beautiful because it's unique, quirky.
awl: "Fun fact" for #Maycan: the word (e)lawr directly translates to (the) song, but is commonly used to represent language, namely the mannerism in which a person speaks. That leaves accent, intonation, parlance, even dialect, to be translated to one word. While lawanaj means to sing, lawraj would mean to speak in a certain manner, usually accompanies with a modifier of sorts. dzäj still means to speak but namely means simply the action of speaking.
awl's status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-16 18:46:24 UTC
"Fun fact" for #Maycan: the word (e)lawr directly translates to (the) song, but is commonly used to represent language, namely the mannerism in which a person speaks. That leaves accent, intonation, parlance, even dialect, to be translated to one word. While lawanaj means to sing, lawraj would mean to speak in a certain manner, usually accompanies with a modifier of sorts. dzäj still means to speak but namely means simply the action of speaking.
awl: So a kind of trial, a song I wrote. A translation of "The Rains of Castamere" into #Maycan. A text can be found here. http://rainbowdash.net/url/855149 http://rainbowdash.net/url/855150
awl's status on Monday, 12-Dec-16 16:52:09 UTC
So a kind of trial, a song I wrote. A translation of "The Rains of Castamere" into #Maycan. A text can be found here. http://rainbowdash.net/url/855149 http://rainbowdash.net/url/855150
awl: @rarity i presume like Swedish they have a vowel degradation. That's fun. #Maycan has that too.
awl's status on Friday, 18-Nov-16 22:56:50 UTC
@rarity i presume like Swedish they have a vowel degradation. That's fun. #Maycan has that too.
awl: Now realising I haven't done anything in #Maycan since school and a little before then even, not even spoken more than maybe 10 words aloud or otherwise. I should get back to it, mostly the documentation.
awl's status on Thursday, 13-Oct-16 23:42:24 UTC
Now realising I haven't done anything in #Maycan since school and a little before then even, not even spoken more than maybe 10 words aloud or otherwise. I should get back to it, mostly the documentation.
awl: A little story I came up in #Maycan, sound byte included http://rainbowdash.net/url/835950
awl's status on Sunday, 27-Mar-16 23:32:15 UTC
A little story I came up in #Maycan, sound byte included http://rainbowdash.net/url/835950
awl: In #Maycan the word for 'life' is eweś which is a sort of derivation of ew which means home and comfort. However 'existence' is pzöveś which is a derivation of a word akin to harshness, difficulty, a form of struggle. Maycans in their older days considered existence (at least in this physical plane) was a struggle, and very short in the grand scheme of spirituality. eweś is to mean the comfort one finds within the struggle of existence, and the beauty that may not exist in any other plane that comes from that struggle.
awl's status on Friday, 25-Mar-16 17:53:32 UTC
In #Maycan the word for 'life' is eweś which is a sort of derivation of ew which means home and comfort. However 'existence' is pzöveś which is a derivation of a word akin to harshness, difficulty, a form of struggle. Maycans in their older days considered existence (at least in this physical plane) was a struggle, and very short in the grand scheme of spirituality. eweś is to mean the comfort one finds within the struggle of existence, and the beauty that may not exist in any other plane that comes from that struggle.
awl: In #Maycan there is no separate word for 'lord' versus 'host' because in the old ways a lordship, such as it was, was determined by how many people would become guests in their gert, village or township. This word is ezöntew.
awl's status on Friday, 18-Mar-16 23:29:12 UTC
In #Maycan there is no separate word for 'lord' versus 'host' because in the old ways a lordship, such as it was, was determined by how many people would become guests in their gert, village or township. This word is ezöntew.
awl: The name #Maycan could also be a disambiguation of the word 'miaran' which in the supposed elder language would have translated to 'people of the forest'. (Said elder language exists in my head purely as a jumble of words from which some Maycan words take root)
awl's status on Friday, 11-Mar-16 01:01:27 UTC
The name #Maycan could also be a disambiguation of the word 'miaran' which in the supposed elder language would have translated to 'people of the forest'. (Said elder language exists in my head purely as a jumble of words from which some Maycan words take root)
awl: For those interested, #Maycan translation of Schleicher's Fable http://rainbowdash.net/url/834097
awl's status on Wednesday, 02-Mar-16 02:11:53 UTC
For those interested, #Maycan translation of Schleicher's Fable http://rainbowdash.net/url/834097
awlkhalyan: "The Sheep and the Horses", #Maycan https://quitter.se/url/1440433
awlkhalyan's status on Monday, 29-Feb-16 02:56:16 UTC
"The Sheep and the Horses", #Maycan https://quitter.se/url/1440433
mcscx: @awl maybe #Maycan will get "viral" some day in 150 years :-) Is it easy to learn if you already speak a Turkic language?
mcscx's status on Saturday, 13-Feb-16 13:28:30 UTC
@awl maybe #Maycan will get "viral" some day in 150 years :-) Is it easy to learn if you already speak a Turkic language?
awl: #Maycan: tza, which has become to mean yes, comes from an old way to say you speak the truth, tzaherdeç. ź̧e, which has become to mean no, is a sort of participle indicating absence of a certain thing/person/time, but in the modern language has also become a negative participle.
awl's status on Thursday, 11-Feb-16 00:35:12 UTC
#Maycan: tza, which has become to mean yes, comes from an old way to say you speak the truth, tzaherdeç. ź̧e, which has become to mean no, is a sort of participle indicating absence of a certain thing/person/time, but in the modern language has also become a negative participle.
awl: Remember the 'fourth person' thing? Well, come to theink of the article (e-) in #Maycan when attached to verbs kind of conveys this idea. That is, a removed agent, such as epzelüömn (one never knows), a vague reference to a distant third person such as esäbzäwärdi (i gave it to him), and in some cases more than one subject or none such as ekävelven (walk here).
awl's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-15 01:25:14 UTC
Remember the 'fourth person' thing? Well, come to theink of the article (e-) in #Maycan when attached to verbs kind of conveys this idea. That is, a removed agent, such as epzelüömn (one never knows), a vague reference to a distant third person such as esäbzäwärdi (i gave it to him), and in some cases more than one subject or none such as ekävelven (walk here).
awlkhalyan: Listening to some Yugoslav partizan marches/songs and working on my #Maycan dictionary.
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 10-May-15 19:29:56 UTC
Listening to some Yugoslav partizan marches/songs and working on my #Maycan dictionary.
awlkhalyan: It seems the #Maycan noun doesn't in fact have 14 grammatical cases if you take away definitive forms.
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 22-Mar-15 22:54:42 UTC
It seems the #Maycan noun doesn't in fact have 14 grammatical cases if you take away definitive forms.
awl: #Maycan probably uses too many diacritics. Such as 'ebzähitäcäksen' (i could have gone to it). That's namely for regulatory sake due to vowel harmony but in truth all the 'ä's in that word are pronounced like the 'e' is.
awl's status on Saturday, 21-Mar-15 14:58:09 UTC
#Maycan probably uses too many diacritics. Such as 'ebzähitäcäksen' (i could have gone to it). That's namely for regulatory sake due to vowel harmony but in truth all the 'ä's in that word are pronounced like the 'e' is.
awl: @rarity the umlaut is used in other languages utilising the Latin script for the same reason; separation of vowel sounds (french is such an example), but i will always see the Russian ë (pronounced yo) or the #Maycan character (sounds like u in Japanese 'desu').
awl's status on Saturday, 21-Mar-15 14:36:35 UTC
@rarity the umlaut is used in other languages utilising the Latin script for the same reason; separation of vowel sounds (french is such an example), but i will always see the Russian ë (pronounced yo) or the #Maycan character (sounds like u in Japanese 'desu').
awlkhalyan: My thinking in #Maycan is going to be exacted by creating idiomatic expressions in it.
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 15-Mar-15 20:23:38 UTC
My thinking in #Maycan is going to be exacted by creating idiomatic expressions in it.
awl: @scribus I tell myself the same about #Maycan dictionary entries.
awl's status on Monday, 09-Mar-15 03:29:59 UTC
@scribus I tell myself the same about #Maycan dictionary entries.
awlkhalyan: Updated Swadesh List audio for #Maycan https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpq1xnjmds2ymop/swadeshaudio.mp3?dl=0
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 22-Feb-15 19:34:56 UTC
Updated Swadesh List audio for #Maycan https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpq1xnjmds2ymop/swadeshaudio.mp3?dl=0
awlkhalyan: #listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a34srdnxpvs whilst working on #Maycan word entries.
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 22-Feb-15 17:58:17 UTC
#listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a34srdnxpvs whilst working on #Maycan word entries.
awlkhalyan: @mushi I was thinking of using it for #Maycan as well but yes, it's too silly. I like how you say numbers in it now, well enough.
awlkhalyan's status on Monday, 26-Jan-15 03:03:25 UTC
@mushi I was thinking of using it for #Maycan as well but yes, it's too silly. I like how you say numbers in it now, well enough.
awlkhalyan: A thought about the copula 'to be'. In #Maycan it doesn't translate as 'exist', but 'to be present'. How does it affect society or t'other
awlkhalyan's status on Saturday, 24-Jan-15 23:33:32 UTC
A thought about the copula 'to be'. In #Maycan it doesn't translate as 'exist', but 'to be present'. How does it affect society or t'other
mcscx: @mk Have you heard of #Maycan, the language created by @awlkhalyan / @awlditzy http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3775371 @naikodemus
mcscx's status on Saturday, 24-Jan-15 01:10:09 UTC
@mk Have you heard of #Maycan, the language created by @awlkhalyan / @awlditzy http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3775371 @naikodemus
awlkhalyan: Thursday evenings I shall spend thinking (or at least attempting to do so), in #Maycan.
awlkhalyan's status on Friday, 09-Jan-15 05:05:11 UTC
Thursday evenings I shall spend thinking (or at least attempting to do so), in #Maycan.
awl: There's a sort of disambiguation also in #Maycan as if you say "sowra", you're saying a greeting or response, but if you pronounce it "sawra", you're essentially saying ahut up.
awl's status on Saturday, 03-Jan-15 20:06:10 UTC
There's a sort of disambiguation also in #Maycan as if you say "sowra", you're saying a greeting or response, but if you pronounce it "sawra", you're essentially saying ahut up.
awl: @northernnarwhal I started nighttime coffee after flight school so I could get things done that otherwise wouldn't be; I'm on a roll with #Maycan and don't want to fall back into inactivity.
awl's status on Sunday, 02-Nov-14 03:41:42 UTC
@northernnarwhal I started nighttime coffee after flight school so I could get things done that otherwise wouldn't be; I'm on a roll with #Maycan and don't want to fall back into inactivity.
awl: #Maycan doesn't borrow from Latin either, two words for dragon, "kşeher" or "tzař". First one translates to "scaled flame", and second one comes from another one of my older language creations.
awl's status on Saturday, 01-Nov-14 23:56:25 UTC
#Maycan doesn't borrow from Latin either, two words for dragon, "kşeher" or "tzař". First one translates to "scaled flame", and second one comes from another one of my older language creations.
awlkhalyan: "Ořańzdaran" in #Maycan, literally meaning "free country", translates easier to "independent state", as in newly independent.
awlkhalyan's status on Friday, 31-Oct-14 07:16:34 UTC
"Ořańzdaran" in #Maycan, literally meaning "free country", translates easier to "independent state", as in newly independent.
awlkhalyan: Beginning the section of the #Maycan noun here in this grammar book. https://www.dropbox.com/s/u92xykn4yz7wm7c/maycan%20grammar.odt?dl=0
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 26-Oct-14 04:06:58 UTC
Beginning the section of the #Maycan noun here in this grammar book. https://www.dropbox.com/s/u92xykn4yz7wm7c/maycan%20grammar.odt?dl=0
awlkhalyan: #Maycan is the baby. Based on Turkic but unless you're well versed in a Turkic tongue you couldn't really tell just hearing it.
awlkhalyan's status on Saturday, 18-Oct-14 01:52:21 UTC
#Maycan is the baby. Based on Turkic but unless you're well versed in a Turkic tongue you couldn't really tell just hearing it.
awl: @potatao well not private but unless you're not interested in #Maycan at all, why.
awl's status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-14 22:39:58 UTC
@potatao well not private but unless you're not interested in #Maycan at all, why.
awlkhalyan: Fun fact: "iyi" is the same word in turkish and #Maycan.
awlkhalyan's status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-14 22:29:54 UTC
Fun fact: "iyi" is the same word in turkish and #Maycan.
awlkhalyan: I seem to like the consonant cluster "ps" and "ks" a lot, as they appear in both Gispaldan and #Maycan enough to have their own letters.
awlkhalyan's status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-14 00:58:20 UTC
I seem to like the consonant cluster "ps" and "ks" a lot, as they appear in both Gispaldan and #Maycan enough to have their own letters.
awlkhalyan: Last night i had found my works on Gispaldan, a language creation attempt before i started on #Maycan.
awlkhalyan's status on Monday, 13-Oct-14 20:23:35 UTC
Last night i had found my works on Gispaldan, a language creation attempt before i started on #Maycan.
awl: @critialcloudkicker Whoa, I misread that as #Maycan calendar for a second.
awl's status on Sunday, 12-Oct-14 23:49:35 UTC
@critialcloudkicker Whoa, I misread that as #Maycan calendar for a second.
awlkhalyan: @monstertdi a spooky ghost, yes. Would you like to speak about #Maycan?
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 12-Oct-14 01:56:06 UTC
@monstertdi a spooky ghost, yes. Would you like to speak about #Maycan?
awlkhalyan: So the audio files for my #Maycan phrasebook are all Modern Maycan, including intonation. I myself speak an older vernacular of it.
awlkhalyan's status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-14 02:15:55 UTC
So the audio files for my #Maycan phrasebook are all Modern Maycan, including intonation. I myself speak an older vernacular of it.
mcscx: RT @awlkhalyan As #Maycan is now a tag so shall be #apzeka, the writing systeme I created for it. I'm working on letters for a font now.
mcscx's status on Sunday, 05-Oct-14 19:39:09 UTC
RT @awlkhalyan As #Maycan is now a tag so shall be #apzeka, the writing systeme I created for it. I'm working on letters for a font now.
awlkhalyan: As #Maycan is now a tag so shall be #apzeka, the writing systeme I created for it. I'm working on letters for a font now.
awlkhalyan's status on Sunday, 05-Oct-14 19:12:19 UTC
As #Maycan is now a tag so shall be #apzeka, the writing systeme I created for it. I'm working on letters for a font now.
awl: #Maycan is designed so no-one knows what the cherries you are saying.
awl's status on Saturday, 04-Oct-14 21:44:59 UTC
#Maycan is designed so no-one knows what the bananas you are saying.
awl: eořan--ivdäń öyĺettäń. Freedom--away from foreign thought. Mantra of the #Maycan separatist.
awl's status on Saturday, 04-Oct-14 01:24:44 UTC
eořan--ivdäń öyĺettäń. Freedom--away from foreign thought. Mantra of the #Maycan separatist.
awl: #Maycan does exist as a tag now, I think. Let's click the link and find out!
awl's status on Friday, 03-Oct-14 23:55:50 UTC
#Maycan does exist as a tag now, I think. Let's click the link and find out!