Thread:AgentMuffin/@comment-25653892-20150101201512/@comment-25653892-20150103163442

Actually I'm trying to make a more organized language. It involves spontaneous underlining and cursive script though, so it would be kinda hell to type. Since  is deprecated or something, you would have to use text-decoration-styled spans every. single. time. And if you were naming a file… eh, good luck with formatting the gahtdamn filename. Maybe with a Unicode extension…? I've settled on using italics in place of cursive letters for typing though, because reasons. Basic formatting reasons. As opposed to using a standard cursive font, or not being able to use cursive fonts, because what would be the cursive for the cursive font, and how do you know the whole damn thing isn't just in cursive? I mean, it can't, because vowels can't be in cursive, but…

Anyway the language would be very standardized and formulaic. It would predominantly use Latin and Greek roots, but also have a number of loanwords. It would also be phonetically spelled. Example: AgentMuffin > Ei s ent N ʌhin. (Yes that is a turned v. It makes the "uh" sound because the letter u sounds like "oo". So I needed a different letter. Because phonetics.)

And what does this funky ass-formatting mean? The cursive/italics indicates an alternate sound. So s sounds like sh, t sounds like ch, h like f, n like ng (as in any -ing verb)… not perfect really, but I was kinda trying to make the inconsistencies in Japanese pronunciation be more consistent for some reason, and this happened I guess. And the underlines make darker, murkier sounds. So s sounds like z, t like d, h like b, n like m, etc. And when you combine the formattings, you can sometimes get more murkier versions of the alternate sounds. Like,  s  becomes j, because the s alternate is sh, and if you darken that sound kinda, it gets to sound like j. And  h  becomes p. Because Japanese. Then there's something I haven't mentioned yet, which is the accent. Accent marks turn certain vowels into consonants. The only two that can be affected (so far) are i and u. Basically, í is the "y" vowel. Then ú is the double-u. And you can use an underline in conjunction with an accent for u only, because ú sounds like v. So shut up >:U

Here is a typical root, now fitted for use:  h ai l o, pronounced "pyro", and meaning "fire". Yeah I have a ways to go, and this language of mine is clearly not yet fitted for typing. Maybe replace underlines with capitals? Nah, cuz sentences. And proper nouns.