First Day of Work, Again (Israesisat a Lhi)

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English:

I worked my first day. I had no company computer. Even so, I am happy. Will they be my friends?

Lhenazi:

Zame a kesath a ir rae ateilh. Ekamioter mozreshata one uan ateilh. Lhikei zrazo atei. Amaizorei isemei ia aikeish?

Explanation:

I worked my first day.

Zame a kesath a ir rae ateilh.

work that day that one at I-did

I had no company computer.

Ekamioter mozreshata one uan ateilh.

computer of-company have not I-did

Even so, I am happy.

Lhikei zrazo atei.

am-happy even-so I

Will they be my friends?

Amaizorei isemei ia aikeish?

my-friends become yes/no they

Words like this were coined for this entry; words like this demonstrate new grammar needed for this entry. See my website for more information about Lhenazi.

Jambool It Is (Israesisat a Ne)

English:

The second company said they're not giving me an offer. I will work for Jambool. I will work soon, tomorrow!

Writing numbered journal entries creates many numbers! One, two... What will the next number be? I will know soon!

Lhenazi:

Noke zreshatalh a ne zame-anen oan a-one atei. Zamei a Shamol-rae ateish. Zamei a some, a kesath ash shate, ateish!

Kazeme ainisraesisat a trimeta-one teze ox aitrimetan. Ir, ne... Thai-zre sia trimeta ash shate? Ilhei a some ateish!

Explanation:

The second company said they're not giving me an offer.

Noke zreshatalh a ne zame-anen oan a-one atei.

says company-did that two work-giving not that-have me

I will work for Jambool.

Zamei a Shamol-rae ateish.

work that Jambool-at I-will

I will work soon, tomorrow!

Zamei a some, a kesath ash shate, ateish!

work that near, that day that will come, I-will!

Writing numbered journal entries creates many numbers.

Kazeme ainisraesisat a trimeta-one teze ox aitrimetan.

creates journal-pieces that number-has writing many numbers

One, two...

Ir, ne...

What will the next number be?

Thai-zre sia trimeta ash shate?

what-is what number that-will come

I will know soon!

Ilhei a some ateish!

know that near I-will

Words like this were coined for this entry; words like this demonstrate new grammar needed for this entry. See my website for more information about Lhenazi.

Israesisat a Ir

Zrishelhei a tie-ikath-rae zreshatalh a ne atein. Klhime a iakor-rae ateilh. Lhike Thores na ateilh atezon a oishe. Mazrisi kaixei na Sheri-an ezrolhin Zelata. Tezei a lho-rae atei tie israesisatan.

English Translation:

I interviewed at a second company this morning.

Zrishelhei a tie-ikath-rae zreshatalh a ne atein.

interview that this-morning-at company-did that is-second me

I read at a cafe.

Klhime a iakor-rae ateilh.

read that café-at I-did

Forrest and I ate a tasty dinner.

Lhike Thores na ateilh atezon a oishe.

eat Forrest and I-did dinner that is-tasty

We played a Zelda game with Jerry.

Mazrisi kaixei na Sheri-an ezrolhin Zelata.

play we and Jerry-did game Zelda

I am writing this journal entry now.

Tezei a lho-rae atei tie israesisatan.

write that now-at I this journal-piece

Words like this were coined for this entry; words like this demonstrate new grammar needed for this entry.

[Lhenazi information]

Lhenazi Font & Eating Poorly

My Daily Stats

Exercise	Food	Spanish	Writing	Conlanging
Steps	Calories	Time	Words	Activities
5500	1050 ± 200	–	–	Lhenazi font

On Tuesday, I spent several hours at a cafe creating a handwritten script for my new conlang. Yesterday, I spent several hours at a cafe creating a font for my new conlang! I have some more cleanup work to do with it, but it's almost done already:

After closing time, I walked over to Jerry's for some True Blood and Left 4 Dead. Vampires good, zombies bad. :) By the time we were done with that, it was like 2 AM and I bummed a ride home. Thus only 5k steps, whereas I probably would have had closer to 8k if I'd walked home too. Ah well, there's always tomorrow, as the old DDR machine says.

And about those calories... My "target" is 1200 calories per day. It may look like I did well yesterday... except that here's the list of healthy things I ate:

• 3 slices of gouda
• 6 oz milk
• 12 oz mocha
• molasses cookie
• croissant
• Mirror Pond pale ale
• coffee w/cream & sugar

So yeah. Tasty, but not so good, eh? Damn Caffe Ladro and their bakery! It's out to get me, clearly. ;)

Handwriting for Lhenazi

My Daily Stats

Exercise	Food	Spanish	Writing	Conlanging
Steps	Calories	Time	Words	Activities
9,600	1400 ± 200	–	–	Lhenazi handwriting

Lhenazi Handwriting

I walked to Fremont Coffee yesterday evening and spent 2 hours there creating a writing system for my new conlang Lhenazi. It's a syllabary, which means that each "letter" is actually a consonant plus a vowel sound. So you can't write "t" by itself; you have to write "ta," "to," etc. This works well for languages that only allow simple syllable structures made up of consonant-vowel pairs. Once you start allowing complex clusters like English's "strengths," a syllabary just isn't going to cut it.

At 9 PM, Fremont Coffee closed and kicked me out. I asked the barista if there were any other cafes open later, but she said there weren't. I remembered a Tully's (one that their own website doesn't know about — strange, no?) on the way back home, so I walked over there to check it out. But it had closed at 9 too.

I called up my mom for Yelp "ground support" and discovered that Caffe Ladro has a location open until 11 PM across the street from Fremont Coffee. What a lying barista! ;) So I walked back to Caffe Ladro (I was walking for the exercise anyway...) and enjoyed myself some more time finishing up the script for Lhenazi. I also enjoyed me some delicious cranberry pecan muffin made at the> cafe. Mmm!

What took so long at these cafes? "Evolving" my syllabary! Syllabaries (and other writing systems, too) often come from little pictograms that eventually begin to stand for the sound of the item drawn instead of the item itself. So I developed my script by drawing little pictures for all 52 possible syllables, then wrote drew those pictures repeatedly until they "eroded" into abstract, simple shapes. It sounds tedious, but it was actually surprisingly fun. I did the whole thing in 4 hours!

Conlanging & Dead Car

My Daily Stats

Exercise	Food	Spanish	Writing	Conlanging
Steps	Calories	Time	Words	Activities
13,700	too many	Los Amantes del Círculo Polar (1:48h)	0 :(	Lhenazi grammar (word order, possession, adjectives)

I went to bed late last night but still got up at 10:20 AM, when the sun got too annoying. I've intentionally left the blinds open to get me up, you see.

I worked on my new conlang Lhenazi, which I've been having a lot of fun with. It's a new language that belongs with my NaNoWriMo trilogy, and will suffer less from being created in the time before I had studied linguistics. I still love my old Asha'ille, but it definitely has its "because I like it" rather than "because it's linguistically sound" moments. ;)

Then Steve and I went over to Jerry's, where there was more conlanging (on my part, anyway), then pizza dough and taco pizza and zombies.

I walked to Jerry's and back, so that's how my 10k+ step goal was reached for the day. I really need to walk more, I says to myself. And Fate is listening! Fate says, okay, let's make your car stop running while you're in the middle of driving. That'll get you walking more. Helpful ol' Fate.

Forrest's off on his backpacking trip as of tomorrow, so he can't exactly fix my car for me. But Jerry says that he should have time to look at it on Wednesday. Hopefully it's something easily fixable...