@cryptosphinx
It's very nerdly in the most exorbitant way haha

The videos on calendar systems are also v neat

@CursedConfetti @cryptosphinx I just need a Mastodon feature where if someone writes about linguistics on here, it shows up in my mentions. This thread is great and I enjoyed the video and thank you both for being awesome.

@benhamill

@cryptosphinx
I totally noticed I typoed with what should be nomative lol

Anyway, that vid covers the basic alignment system. This vid is Dave Peterson (dude who made the languages of game of thrones and avatar
https://youtu.be/684wIdZGlTA

He's talking about the second most common alignment system, ergative

@cryptosphinx @benhamill
I'm p sure I mentioned tripartite systems, they are essentially split ergative systems

@CursedConfetti @benhamill ah yeah that's what you were telling me about on Saturday! I've heard of split ergativity where it's based on whether the "subject" is an agent, and I think you were telling me that in Austronesian languages they actually use ergative alignment for some marking and nominative-accusative for other kinds of marking on the same words?

apparently artifexian is going to make a video on at least the basics of ergativity at some point

@benhamill @CursedConfetti @cryptosphinx If you get that working, make sure you let me know. =P

@witchfynder_finder

@benhamill @cryptosphinx
I mean no conlang project has really been made yet

Hmm, start with phonology and phonetotactics and basically a word for word cipher of toki pona and try to develop something organically from there?

@cryptosphinx @benhamill @witchfynder_finder
If using toki pona as a base, I would make it employ a topic marker and lots of classifiers and reduplication for the bulk of its grammar

@cryptosphinx
I added more to that conlang earlier today if you wanna look at it