Sinnish Update

[vaxjedi]

Just a small one.

I've decided to add a feature into the language involving word order. English word order is Subject Verb Object.

The current word order is Subject Object Verb (like Latin). This is the default order. I'm adding a 'formal' order of Verb Subject Object (like Laadan). This second order is for formal speaking, ritual use, presentations, legal documents, etc. It implies a formal intent and can imply a formal or technical meaning for the words involved. The default order is a more casual and general usage - you use it unless you are intending to be formal.

That's it for now. :)

Comments

[xiombarg.livejournal.com]

Are you going to have different ways of indicating social status, like Japanese does? This would be especially useful in polyamorous S&M relationships.

[vaxjedi]

Actually, there is something sorta like this. There is a set of status prefixes. There are four stations (owned, low, high, and exhalted) and three dispositions (neutral, reviled and beloved). So a sub would use high or exhalted with his/her Dom (depending on the nature of the relationship). A Dom would use owned or low for his/her sub (with the same caveat). In a BDSM community, a Dom might use owned for his/her own subs, but just low for other subs.

Also, this goes outside the BDSM community. The low status can be used for your kids (the low, beloved status would be like calling a child 'dear') and the high' beloved status can be used for parents (sort of a 'sir'). Also, people could refer to a monarch or leader by the high or exhalted status a an honorific. You could use the disposition for more detail (the neutral as a general 'sir', the beloved as a 'oh great king' thing and the reviled as a 'dread Lord' sort of fell).