High Valyrian is a funny language. Either way, that’s the end of week 2! Great job! ~:D Today is a good day to be alive, because you are there to appreciate it!
Material From Today’s Class
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Assignments
Reading
- AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 136-139
- AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 150-152
Practice
- Find an interesting natlang verb system (hint: they’re all interesting), and post it to our #morphology channel. Describe in a sentence or two what’s different/interesting about it.
Mastery
- MA 4: The Nouns of Your Language: Remember that for your language, you have to do two of the following: (1) a number system that distinguishes at least singular and plural; (2) a composite noun case system; or (3) a gender system. You can get some bonus points on this if you do all, but that’s not the intent of this: I really want you to just focus on two of them (and also want you to not say “My language makes no distinctions for anything!”).
Backburner
- Start thinking about some basic verb stems you can produce. Basic as it gets. What’s basic to our human experience? (Note: Apparently fear. Kind of a bummer. It’s always one of the oldest words in a language…)
- You’ll need some pronouns for your final project, so after today’s discussion, think about pronouns a bit. What do you want to do with them?