Jan. 26th, 2016

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Once you and I know who we each are, the next thing we want to do is talk about other people and that is why we need the third person. ‘Allspeak’ has four third person singular pronouns and two plural ones. All nouns are presumed to be in the third person until proven otherwise. Thus we have:

The singular third person pronouns are:

Subjective     Objective                  Possessive adjective      Reflexive

Fluid              jay /ʤeɪ/      jayer /ʤeɪɜ/             jaym /ʤeɪm/                jayerjay /ʤeɪɜʤeɪ/

She                jow /ʤaʊ/    jower /ʤaʊɜ/          jowm /ʤaʊm/              jowerjow /ʤaʊɜʤaʊ/

He                 jear /jıə/       jearer /jıəɜ/             jearm /jıəm/                 jearerjear /jıəɜjıə/

It (thing)       joy /jɔɪ/         joyer /jɔɪɜ/               joym /jɔɪm/                   joyerjoy /jɔɪɜjɔɪ/

Jay is for people or creatures of unknown gender or whose gender is known not to be completely male or female for whatever reason. Joy is only ever used for things, not people, unless that person tells you that it is their preferred pronoun.

The two plural third person pronouns may be described as the ‘known they’ and the ‘unknown they.’ When speaking theoretically or metaphorically, about ‘them’, the unknown form is used:

Subjective     Objective                  Possessive adjective      Reflexive

Known           jayk /jeɪk/     jayker /jeɪkɜ/            jaykm /jeɪkm/               jaykerjayk /jeɪkɜjeɪk/

Unknown      joyk /jɔɪk/     joyker /jɔɪkɜ/            joykm /jɔɪkm/                joyerjoy /jɔɪɜjɔɪ/

Where second person verb forms add the vowel of the subjective pronoun to the verb as a suffix before any other suffixes are added, the third person forms add the first sound of the subjective pronouns as a suffix in the same way, thus giving only one set of verb forms for the third person. Because of this, third person pronouns are more widely used then implied, whereas the first person pronouns are usually only implied and the second person pronouns are implied where reasonable. The resulting verb forms are”

Singular                         Plural

she/he/it stop = tarkj                                                                    they stop = tarkjk

she/he/it is stopping stop = tarkja                                                they are stopping = tarkjak

she/he/it will stop = tarkjyu                                                         they will stop = tarkjyuk

she/he/it will be stopping = tarkjayu                                           they will be stopping = tarkjayuk

she/he/it plan to stop = yutarkj                                                    they plan to stop = yutarkjk

she/he/it are planning to stop = yutarkja                                    they are planning to stop = yutarkjak

she/he/it will plan to stop = yutarkjyu                                         they will plan to stop = yutarkjyuk

she/he/it are going to be stopping/are planning to be stopping = yutarkjayu       they are going to be stopping/are planning to be stopping –  yutarkjayuk

she/he/it stopped = tarkjow                                                         they stopped – tarkjowk

she/he/it was stopping = tarkjaow                                               they stopped – tarkjaowk

she/he/it planned to stop = yutarkjow                                         they planned to stop = yutarkjowk

she/he/it were planning to stop = yutarkjaow                             they were planning to stop = yutarkjaowk

she/he/it had planned to stop = yutarkjow                      They had planned to stop – yutarkjowk

she/he/it was going to be stopping/was planning to be stopping – yutarkjaow     they were going to be stopping/were planning to be stopping - yutarkjaowk

Having these pronouns and verb forms allows us to talk about other people and, being human that means that we are often judgemental. In ‘Allspeak’ most words to do with spiritual values and virtues were lifted from Setsunyan religious practice, which was not only influential but had a wide ranging vocabulary on the subject to plunder. Kermge, an adjective meaning ‘deserving’ is such a word, coming from the verb kerm, ‘to deserve’.

There are two sets of qualifying words in ‘Allspeak’, one from Setsunyan practice that applied originally to human traits and virtues, and the other from Eddic which deal with physically observable phenomenon. If you describing a glass as being almost full, then you use gek for ‘almost’. You could also describe someone as being gek kermge, but the usual usage would be mahowl kermge, where mahowl means ‘almost or nearly attained.’

If we want to describe someone by age, then the word for boy is oud, specifically a pre-pubescent male, while an immature male who’s reached and passed puberty is an udool, and an adult male is a nanðroe.

The definite article, as already mentioned, is dek while the indefinite article is kle.

The conjunction used to join things which do not disagree, the equivalent of the English ‘and’ is eld.

Etsou / ɛtsoʊ/ is a word used to begin stories. It has connotations of ‘once upon a time’ and ‘once there was’, but it is also used to begin someone’s latest fishing story.

This allows us to say:

etsou kle ouder loshchegjow Eustace Clarence Scrubb eld mahowl kermjeow joyer.

(Once there was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb and almost (he) deserved it.)

Or, more unkindly:

etsou kle ouder kopapojow Eustace Clarence Scrubb eld mahowl kermjeow joyer.

(Once there was a boy (everyone) called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and almost (he) deserved it.)

Legacy 9

Jan. 26th, 2016 02:03 pm
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This follows on from Legacy 8.


“She’s right,” Buldaveho said firmly. “You two and your things are going to be very wet, very soon, if you stay here.”

“But we don’t know her,” the blonde girl told him.

“And we only know you to see,” added the dark haired one.

“And the water’s rising,” put in Baranyi casting a look the flood being created by too much water for the opening it was trying to move through. “Please, I can’t leave you out here in this. In fact,” she added with some asperity aimed at herself, “I shouldn’t be leaving you out here on your own in any circumstances. I’m sorry it took so long for me to realise that you were living here.”

“We’re not going to go to an orphanage,” warned the dark haired one warned her.

“Or anywhere else where they’ll tell us we’re not even sisters,” added the blonde.

“I wouldn’t dream of it,” said Baranyi. “Now, please, come with us. The water is getting higher.” Her sentence was punctuated by a loud crack of thunder.

The blonde girl chanced a look at the drain and said worriedly, “That is beginning to look awfully full. Maybe we should?”

Her dark haired sister took a look too. “We could, if you both promise you’re not going to put us in an orphanage or split us up.”

Baranyi and Buldaveho looked at each other, he nodded to her, and then they both said to the girls, “We promise.”

It took a worryingly short time to get the girls’ possessions bundled up but even so, the water was already lapping at the lean-to’s side when they scrambled out to join the two adults under the umbrellas.

“I think it’s safe to say that my spare room is going to be better than floating away in this,” said Baranyi cheerfully. “Let’s get you inside and fed.”

The four of them had just reached Baranyi’s front door when there was another, massive crack of thunder followed almost immediately by an explosion. Buldaveho’s head whipped around and he caught sight of a plume of smoke reaching up above the intervening roofs. “That looks like it’s near my place. I have to go!” He thrust the umbrella he was holding back at Baranyi and added, “I’ll come back and let you know what it is, if I can.” Then he was gone, running in the direction of his home.

“Soup,” said Baranyi firmly, “with dumplings. Lots of soup. Someone’s going to need it, if we can’t eat it all. Let’s get you two clean and then you can help me cook,” and with that, she ushered the girls into the house.



This is now followed by Legacy 10.

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