yes, yes, horrible names for a conlang, but they have significance.
( Eh/Æ )

this is just a rough explanation of my new project, i do plan to make a better show later. =)

well, I've been productive this spring break!

first item on the list- I've started writing a new piece of music, and i must say, it's turning out quite well! since i only have finale notepad, and can only write a score of 8 parts, i went with flute, oboe, clarinet, alto sax, trumpet, french horn, trombone, and tuba for this piece. It has a few sections in it so far (in the 49 measures I've written) that are each about 7-12 measures long. I feel really good about this piece, it has some well intricate parts, and I've used some ideas i learned when i was at an honors band this past weekend. I feel like i can complete this one and have it sounding good in a decent amount of time.

Now on to the language portion...

I started work on a new language yesterday thats the complete opposite (grapheme wise) to CL-4. its called Dharnya, and has no diacritics, only diphthongs and digraphs. its agglutivative (like almost all of my languages) and has a complex gender/class system with 3 numbers. I want it to be both simple and complex.

here's a sample:
Sidlhenoi kaghastos sidlhenoiuo; I am me.
[SiT_henoi kag_haStoS SiT_henoiwo]

Sidlhe-no-i ka-ghastos sidlhe-no-i-uo
1P.class1.sing be.class1 agreement 1P.class1.sing.reflexive

Well, we had a band competition, and the word was that the judges were really strict, so we were all nervous. So we go through the performance and sight reading, and then go out to watch them put up the scores (I-IV, I being the highest (superior) and IV being the lowest (poor)) and the guy started off just putting the upper and lower bars on the chart, then he put straight II's across, which we were unhappy about. Then one of the flute players said "oh, april fools, right?" and the guy said "what april fools?" and then colored in one of the IIs. He said "Is that better?" and she (the flute player) said "keep going!" and so he colored in another, and it kept on until we found out we had gotten straight Is, at which point we celebrated uproariously!

tags: april fool's day, practical jokes, writer's block

I was sad to find today that livejournal and jotsky are now blocked at school. I am a library assistant second period, and we had the day off from doing anything today, so i sat at the circulation desk browsing the internet and working on some homework, while folding announcements for a reinactment of the wedding in Frankenstein (i dunno, i just did what i was asked to do). so i tried to get on here to browse and see if i had any messages, and it came up as blocked. So then i went to the linguistics section of wikipedia (finding some nice conlang websites) and looked up grammar (mmm, delicious). I decided to take some notes for my conlang, and remembered about jotsky (i just started using it) so i typed in the russian address. It came up, but when i logged in it, too, was blocked =(.

I wish the school boreds would just grow up.

Well I had my Music School audition at Western Carolina University this past weekend, and it went 'well'...
By 'well' i mean, it was ok... I learned a lot about what i need to do.

After my Audition i got to talk with Dr. Eldred Spell (the flute studio professor) and he told me how my audition went. He said that i had potential, but if i made it in, i would start out on probation. The good thing was that he said that if he could, he would try to get me in, which makes me hopeful, though it isnt one way or the other yet.

He also told me that i need to be in the market for a new flute as soon as possible. I still play on a Selmer beginner student model, and i really need to upgrade to an advanced model. I've been looking at Flute World for a new flute, and I think i might've narrowed it down to either the Jupiter 600 or 700 series (Im looking into a flute thats open-holed, offset G, split E mechanism, with low B footjoint) (I'd really like to get a D# roller too, but ill be fine without it) (if you explore the website the model numbers of what Im looking at are Jupiter 611 RBES and Jupiter 711 RBES). He told me to consult him before making any purchases.

Along with a professional flute, Im in the market for a laptop for college. I've recently set my sights on a Dell XPS M1530, which is about $899 basic (~$30/month) and has some really nice features. But i cant rule out a Mac yet, as I've heard that the music school prefers you having one.im not quite sure yet, but one thing i know is that whatever's cheaper is what I'll be getting.

Now for my wishlist:
Finale 2009- I'm tired of downloading the demo and writing cool pieces, but then not being able to save it, and losing everything I've done. The only problem with it is that it has a $600 price tag, which is a ridiculous amount for a music writing program such as finale (especially when the next step down is about $300-$500 less)

Alto & Bass Flutes- They're just hot, I've always wanted to play different members of the flute family, and alto and bass flutes are the next most common after flute and piccolo.
by the way, they run in the tens of thousands of dollars range.

RPG Maker XP- After my computer crashed, I lost my original copy that i got as a gift, and now if i want it back, Ill have to by it for $60.

Rock Band I & II- because its rockband.. to bad that both of them together would be at least $300.

The money for college- it would be great if it just fell in my lap, a year's payment is about $5,500 total, now add that to about $5,000 x 3 (freshman year you have to choose some more expensive options). Oh well, back to the scholarship applications =(

The internet- Who doesn't want to own the internet?



well, I guess that's it for now, y'all come back now, y'hear? XD

I just used my language for the first time casually. I updated my status on facebook with it =)
'Cody 'šın łïdno cëto cęnikönatøgë ðtama!'

cody is excited about this weekend!

cody-ERG excited copula-3P.pres prep-post-week this
prep-prepositional case (about, concerning)
post-postessive case (after)
the copula is just a modified form of 'be', taking similar endings.

i havent done verbals yet, so the sentence may change, but the syntax for this sentence is APV prepositional phrase (köna is used in a more idiomatic way, to mean 'weekend' (lit. after-week)).

in an attempt to regularize the diacritics of CL-4 (i wish i had a name =/) i changed some of the phonology of the diacritics
ą,ę, and ų are [jA], [je] and [ju], (ę and ų changing there sounds from [eo] and [ue])
also, I've switched around some pronouns.

ERGATIVE
é-I
çıdłä-you (sing)
횜-he
žąmwø-she

kalmłá-we (inclusive)
kïkadea-we (exclusive)
ciðitu- you (pl)
kaddelö-they

ABSOLUTIVE
dra
šadrä
ðíro
tettarä

etrï
cehę
ţegö
çahå

next thing I'll be working on: Verbals!

*I hate when i'm trying to learn the pronounciation of a language and they use english -er, -ir, or -ur as a comparison, such as 'e as in english feather. where i come from, we learn er/ir/ur as one sound and they all sound the same, so its near impossible to separate the vowel sound to know exactly what they mean.

*i finally got around to (and finished) mood on my language! once again i have quite a few, but i've done some different things with it, I've combined some, found ways other than using a particle for a couple, and one has a special construction with its use. I just have to look and see if there's any more grammar i can add at the moment, and then start building vocabulary.

I went to the doctor tuesday (luckily we were out the first two days of the week due to a snow storm that gave us about 7", a huge amount for us to get, whenever we do get snow). They said that it didn't quite look like pneumonia, but it basically was. They had ordered a flu test just to be sure, and it came back negative. The prescribed me some biaxin and tussionex (biaxin to get me better, tussionex for the cough) and they also gave me a steriod shot, which has me feeling much better, and brought my temperature down 3-4 degrees fahrenheit in about an hour (my fever was 101.6 (fahrenheit) when i went tuesday).

I prefer to text, its a lot faster, and im soft spoken, so i dont have to repeat myself through text. the only thing i dont like about text is how long it takes to type a message (and the fact i only have 200 texts now compared to when i 'technically' had unlimited text on my old service

tags: cell phones, text messages, writer's block

I am SUPER sick. i think i might have pneumonia. what's worse is that we had a snow day today (7" of snow, when we rarely get any) and we lost power for 13 hours last night.
I feel like my ribs are about to break from coughing so much, my stomachs being eaten through by stomach acid, and that my throats about to rip open. This is a horrible weekend!

mood: sick

Here it is, with x-sampa.

( the alphabet in X-SAMPA )

here it is, the first sample of my new language, CL-4

( caution: diacritics ahead ;-) )
later ill post the alphabet with X-SAMPA pronunciation, so hold tight, also, if you cant see ą,ę and ų, ill start posting them as â, ê, and û. 

ðyuljlogúaţúnšúl-until next time (lit see-until-away from-origin or until-see-away from-origin)

mood: accomplished

so after having my computer crash in december... i finally got my computer back up! but in the process i lost all my files. so, here I am, starting from scratch again, I've started a new project, which is highly unready to be unveiled (its basically vocabulary with a few small bones of grammar). i think i should have it ready soon though (but it'll probably get a bit of criticism due to my fondness of diacritics, and a have a few unorthodox diacritics used in unorthodox ways XD). oh well, tis mine anyways.

I absolutely hated it when we played baseball, i was horrible at it, and nobody wanted me on their team.
I loved dodgeball though, i was great at it, and often the last one in and was able to get my teammates out of 'jail' and back in (we had a rendition called 'fireball')

Usually though, i just sat and slept, or whatever, we had really leaniant(sp?) coaches who didnt really care what we did, as long as it wasnt bad/dangerous

tags: writer's block

from trying to read Ruby/RGSS tutorials.
I really hate it when people who write textbooks and things write them in terminology as if we already know the subject, It really just slows the progress of learning. Im learning RGSS (ruby game scripting system) to be able to write scripts for rpg maker xp, a video game making program.

So far Ive only found one decent tutorial for a basic example of a bonus feature you can add (HUDs, in case you know what that is).

Anyways, Im going to head to bed before I pass out

mood: frustrated

I've just finished making my writing system for my new language. I've yet to get it on the computer, but I plan on getting it up on conlangs  when I get it fine tuned (I need to break it in a little for ease of writing and familiarity)

It took me a while to get ideas for the symbols of each letter, but i finally got it. I would like to cite Omniglot and wikipedia for giving me ideas for it, and also allchars for giving me the symbol for the letter 'a'.

mood: accomplished

Mi estos lerni esperanton... damne-gxi ><
Im gonna learn esperanto once and for all... damnit!