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Welcome to the newest post on Universe Factory, the blog of the Worldbuilding community:

With My Conlang, I Would Not Fail, by Sean F. Larson

In all the talking and back and forth talk, my principal said something. Thinking about it now, I am sure that it was just an off-hand comment. But he said, "He is going to have to invent his own language to graduate from high school." and the light bulb went off.

Invent my own language? YES! I'm going to invent my own language! I had no idea anyone had ever done this before. I had taken French, and I understood grammar, but I really had no idea how to create an entire language from scratch.

Tags: Constructed languages

Previous post: Salvage - Part 2 of Landed, by Topcode

They went to homebase and unpacked and set up a tent. as they stepped outside they heard a bang. It was an escape pod that had launched and was quickly destabilizing. It was pulling up but not in time. A loud crash sounded as it smashed into the shore, then skidded around before rolling down the slope… and into the water. Fortunately for whoever was inside the flotation activated and kept it from sinking.

Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction

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    $\begingroup$ How can we upvote that dude's work. Its excellent. $\endgroup$
    – kingledion
    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:29
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    $\begingroup$ @kingledion authors thrive on comments, and I encourage you to leave him some on his posts. If you don't have a Medium account already, you can log in with Google, Facebook, or Twitter (like you do here on SE). I'm sure he'd welcome feedback! And yes, I agree that Jasper's work is excellent. (Tease: there's more coming.) $\endgroup$
    – Monica Cellio
    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:57
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    $\begingroup$ @MonicaCellio Do upvotes carry between blog post updates (have 24 accumulated over time or are they all from this one?) I'd ask elsewhere but we have no meta-meta-worldbuilding. $\endgroup$
    – Zxyrra
    Dec 23, 2016 at 22:51
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    $\begingroup$ @Zxyrra they accumulate over time. Instead of creating a bunch of individual meta posts, which would get out of hand, we're editing this post with each new blog post. Votes probably shouldn't be interpreted as votes on the specific blog posts. (If you want to know how those votes have changed over time, you could use the data explorer. But that won't tell you if that's why people are voting on this meta post.) $\endgroup$
    – Monica Cellio
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    $\begingroup$ @Zxyrra You reminded me of this meta xkcd $\endgroup$
    – Xandar The Zenon
    Dec 29, 2016 at 23:15
  • $\begingroup$ awesome work, great to read :) $\endgroup$
    – Sandy
    Feb 8, 2017 at 22:16
  • $\begingroup$ Hopefull I might resume and finish the later part of story that I started medium.com/universe-factory/…. I think it's archived, am I too late? $\endgroup$
    – Karan Desai
    Jul 4, 2018 at 11:16
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    $\begingroup$ @KaranDesai great! It's still there, ready for you to pick it up and continue when you're ready. I'm looking forward to it. $\endgroup$
    – Monica Cellio
    Jul 4, 2018 at 13:47
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks, I'll submit draft asap on Medium $\endgroup$
    – Karan Desai
    Jul 5, 2018 at 3:30
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    May 22, 2020 at 23:54

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    $\begingroup$ Dang, have we really written that much? I'm impressed. And thanks for putting this together. $\endgroup$
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    $\begingroup$ We've written a bit, yes. (The volume is why I didn't add author names to this list -- I was already doing enough typing/cutting/pasting. If anybody else wants to, feel free.) $\endgroup$
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    $\begingroup$ What happens when this post hits the character limit? :-) $\endgroup$
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    $\begingroup$ @rand al'thor Add a second post. $\endgroup$
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    $\begingroup$ @randal'thor yes, as Bellerophon said, when we hit the 30,000-character limit on this post we'll just have to add another answer and divide up the entries. :-) $\endgroup$
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  • $\begingroup$ @MonicaCellio No problem. I hope I got them all right with the second edit. I couldn't find/remember a username corresponding with Evan Hoffman Conlangs for Non-Linguists though. $\endgroup$
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    May 3, 2017 at 13:48

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