17 june 2025
After more world wide non-web exploration, I realise that Gemini is a lot more complicated to use than I thought it would be. I initially wanted to make my own gemlog with my own domain, but I apparently need to have a second computer that I can never turn off for it. Which isn't a great investment for my particular circumstances.
C'est la vie. Yesterday, I finally got around to creating example sentences of my fictional language Passrynian so I can upload it to my story website. The 'grammar' of the language has been established long ago (It's basically French vocabulary with a more Austronesian-esque grammar system), but I hadn't bothered to write example translations of it until now.
I'm not sure how I'd go about formatting it for Gemini/Gopher yet. Also, despite the Feels blurb telling me I can write in HTML, I actually can't. So that's funny.
The features of Passrynian are a VSO word order, a conjugation system of aspect-mood prefixes (Passrynian doesn't use tenses) and synctactic alignment/'voice' suffixes, and differing degrees of how much of the 'rules' are followed based on Passryne's four-gender system. Very simple stuff, but I'm surprisingly invessted in it. Some considerations I've had are an additional infix system for intensifiers and using different punctuation for compound nesting (so far, you're just meant to use hyphens, even if you end up using like seven hyphens in a row).