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- Deviant for 16 years
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Where'd all my stuff go?
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I've stored the vast majority of my work on account of the fact that I'm trying to get published, and want to move away from dA in general. I'll still be occasionally putting my work up on here, but if you like it, best save it now, because it won't last long. My fanfiction (fan-poetry) will stay where it is.
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Poetry Commissions Open!
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Valentine's Day is coming up, and what better way to express your affection than with a unique poem custom-tailored for your loved one?
To start off I'm charging US$2 per line of poetry, payable to Paypal; give me as much information as you like, from the style to the content, and tell me as much as you can about what precisely you want the piece to be and be about. If you're not sure about the style, I have quite a number of different types of poetry in my gallery to give you ideas! Of course, I don't only write love poetry; if there's a piece you want to spice up a story you're writing, something to describe your beloved character for th
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I hate photographers.
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Screw the Mature filter, there needs to be a Close-Up-Of-Bugs filter. And who came up with the idiotic idea to give these things a DD? An incredible troll, that's who.
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Hello and welcome to CRLiterature!
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!Thankya. I'd submit my ghazal except it's not a perfect ghazal so I'm kind of embarrassed. Maybe one day I'll fix it.
It's ok. Post when you're comfortable.
In your article on conlanging you mentioned you had a background in linguistics. How do we interpret the way a language is described (ie. ergative-absolutive)? I've been trying to read about the Basque and Etruscan languages (or at least the little that's known of the latter) for ideas on a fictional language, but my linguistics experience is limited to a quarter of an introductory anthropology class.
Yeah, typological alignment is super-confusing.
Have you learned about nominal cases yet? In English, and most languages for that matter that have case at all, you have two particular cases: nominative and accusative, which relate to how transitive verbs work.
Nominative case is your subject, generally: it's the thing that's performing the action.
Accusative case is the opposite: it's the object, and in a transitive statement it's the thing the action is being performed on.
ie, in "I ran" I is nominative. In "I hit her", I is nominative again, and her is accusative. You can tell because in English, pronouns change depending on their case: "I" is only ever nominative, and "her" is only ever accusative.
This all changes when you have an ergative-absolutive language. Instead of nominative and accusative cases, you have the ergative and absolutive cases.
Ergative is your subject in transitive statements.
Absolutive case is your object in transitive statements, but it is also your SUBJECT in intransitive statements.
So in our two sentences above, "I ran" would have I as absolutive, and "I hit her" would have I as ergative and her as absolutive.
What this makes your language look like is this: If English were ergative-absolutive, and we assumed nominative became ergative and accusative because absolutive, this first (intransitive) sentence would become "Me ran" and the second (transitive) sentence would remain "I hit her".
I hope this helps.
Have you learned about nominal cases yet? In English, and most languages for that matter that have case at all, you have two particular cases: nominative and accusative, which relate to how transitive verbs work.
Nominative case is your subject, generally: it's the thing that's performing the action.
Accusative case is the opposite: it's the object, and in a transitive statement it's the thing the action is being performed on.
ie, in "I ran" I is nominative. In "I hit her", I is nominative again, and her is accusative. You can tell because in English, pronouns change depending on their case: "I" is only ever nominative, and "her" is only ever accusative.
This all changes when you have an ergative-absolutive language. Instead of nominative and accusative cases, you have the ergative and absolutive cases.
Ergative is your subject in transitive statements.
Absolutive case is your object in transitive statements, but it is also your SUBJECT in intransitive statements.
So in our two sentences above, "I ran" would have I as absolutive, and "I hit her" would have I as ergative and her as absolutive.
What this makes your language look like is this: If English were ergative-absolutive, and we assumed nominative became ergative and accusative because absolutive, this first (intransitive) sentence would become "Me ran" and the second (transitive) sentence would remain "I hit her".
I hope this helps.
Thank you for the watch!