One of the highlights of the recent Iron ChIF: Non-Human Language Device Battle was, to me, the discussion of different languages and linguistic features. I find linguistics to be a very interesting field of study, so I hope to spark more conversation about it, whether it’s breakthroughs in the translation of Sumerian dog jokes or suggestions for constructing languages.
I’ll start: It turns out that many languages have separate conjunctions for joining noun phrases, as opposed to joining clauses[1].
Source: The Language Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder, pg. 81 ↩︎