conlang generator 1.2

[kaigou]

Since clearly I needed a break from several days of furious coding... I went and coded to relax. Yeah, I'd say this is starting to get to be troublesome. But regardless!

conlang generator v1.2 is up!

Now with the ability to set what you want, generate, then tweak how you like and re-generate without losing your previous options. The glory of a left-side bar and some judicious jquery.

Still working out the logic of how to do limited options on start/end vowels or consonants (ie "words can only ever start with G, H, J, K, or L" or "words can only end in "a, u, i, or y"). That's going to take some fiddling, so it's just a placeholder question for now.

btw -- I haven't actually tested in anything but Firefox and Chrome. It's possible the little site would work just fine in IE. It's equally possible that it'll just explode in your face. If you're on IE, you're using it at your own risk. Just so you know.

Comments

[soukup]

Eeeeeee. Thank you! *off to play*

[soukup]

This is such fun. My language is like Cree meets Mandarin meets Swedish. Yay!

In addition to "words can only end with x,y,z, or q" have you thought about trying to rig up something for "x,y,z, and q can only appear at the end of a word and nowhere else"?

Of course, I say this as someone who has absolutely no technical idea of how this works. If I'm out of my depth, nvm.

(ETA: Or naturally if you'd like to find some other way to relax, nvm also. *coughs*)

[kaigou]

I'd thought about it but not quite concretely yet -- most of the ideas come from seeing random mixes and thinking, "if only I could get it to NOT do that..." Like the fact that "ng" is a common word end in english, but a beginning in other languages. So I was thinking, if there's "ng" then it should only start or end a word... so kind of what you're talking about. Still puzzling over the logic, though.

(What makes it really complex is the multiple syllables, so the middle-syllable is always kind of a potential rule-breaker. And that one syllable words are only, well, one syllable, so you'd end up with words that can't have this to start, but can't have this to end. Maybe I should just say that one-syllable words will never quite behave, and focus on two- and three-syllable words...)