01-21-2016, 09:34 AM
>That moment when you realize truly that you don't actually understand how your own language works, only that it does.
I'm very good at using the English language. I don't, however, understand all the parts that make it work. I just know that's how it works.
Prepositions, conjugations, articles - these are especially confusing. I understand verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. just fine, but augh, these were not touched on quite enough in school I guess. Or maybe I'm just bad at figuring out language in general.
Specifically, I'm trying (for the nth time, but this time with much more effort) to make a language from scratch, as I've mentioned in previous posts. I have the sentence structure down, and many of the basic rules. Or rather, I thought I had them down. However, when you start throwing around compound-complex sentences with a bunch of prepositions and double-verbs (do these even have a name? i.e. "can make" = verb verb) suddenly translating already mentally incomprehensible paraphrased prose into barely physically comprehensible (and still mind-bending) paraphrased prose in a constructed language becomes a monumental task.
I'm very good at using the English language. I don't, however, understand all the parts that make it work. I just know that's how it works.
Prepositions, conjugations, articles - these are especially confusing. I understand verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. just fine, but augh, these were not touched on quite enough in school I guess. Or maybe I'm just bad at figuring out language in general.
Specifically, I'm trying (for the nth time, but this time with much more effort) to make a language from scratch, as I've mentioned in previous posts. I have the sentence structure down, and many of the basic rules. Or rather, I thought I had them down. However, when you start throwing around compound-complex sentences with a bunch of prepositions and double-verbs (do these even have a name? i.e. "can make" = verb verb) suddenly translating already mentally incomprehensible paraphrased prose into barely physically comprehensible (and still mind-bending) paraphrased prose in a constructed language becomes a monumental task.