Well crap has fallen all over me!

I haven't posted in a long time bu there is an update.

Grandma: She had another stroke at the begginning of March, they took her of some medications and my mom had to sign a lot of paperwork saying that my grandma was DNR and that she wanted to bring her home. Yesterday she complained of chest pain and she was sent to the Hospice facility in Tempe, which is not far from where I live. This doesn't seem to be life threatening so hopefully she'll go back home soon. I'll find out more when I go home tonight.

Me: Not much is happening in my life, I still work at a job I hate and am still looking for another one. I go to Ohio on the 10th of April to visit my friend and my goddaughter. I really am looking forward to this....She has 8 horses on her property and we may go riding! That of course depends on the horses additude. Hopefully everything with my grandma will be fine at least until we get back.

Namaran: Well th language has taken a dramatic turn: Triconsonantal Roots ala Hebrew! I am very excited! I have actually written all the possible root combinations on the computer, now I just need to fine tune the grammar (Phonology has stayed pretty much the same.) I have also named a new culture called the Swik. The Swik are mysterious people from the northern mountains of Namar. I like them, they tend to be sarcastic like me!

Wow it has been a loonnngg time!

I haven't posted in quite awhile. I guess I have been too busy or too lazy to write something down. (A little of both I wager). I guess I'll just go throught the basics of what has been going on:

My Grandma is at home and has 24hour care (which costs over $7000 biweekly!!!!) It all out of pocket. She seems okay, But she barely attempts to use her right arm any more, she doesn't even attempt to paint. I can actually see her decline. She just turned 81 in January. I don't know if she'll make it to 82.

My mom still is the primary caregiver to my grandma. She goes over to her house at 7:00am to give my grandma her shot and makes sure that she takes her pills (a feat in itself). My mom then drive the 20 some odd miles to work. After work she returns to my grandmothers house (around 4:00pm) to give her her evening shot and pills. (For $7000, you'd think that the in-home care would give medication, NOPE!) Mom's brothers and sister barely visit and/or help with the care of my grandma. (Nice kids, eh)

I still work in the same craptastic government job as I always have......errrr. I have put in tons of applications for jobs in Ohio and Arizona, but haven't heard anything yet.

As far as conlangs go, I haven't done much lately. I sort of scrapped my old one and am now trying to revamp it....we'll see how that goes.

Other then that things have stayed relatively the same.

Changes

I am changing Namaran. I will:

1. Make the grammar more regular (Like a IAL but not quite)
2. Make it sound more French and less Russian
3. And other things I can't think of right now.....

I'll keep you posted.

My Weekend

Well, the weekend is over and it is back to work......yuk. My weekend pretty much sucked because I had the flu and I was miserable from Friday evening until now (Although I still don't feel 100%) I spent most of the weekend driving around trying to help my mom find a new dining room table....which we didn't. But I guess that is better then sitting at home doing nothing. I saw my grandma twice, once on saturday and once on Sunday. Saturday she was weak and sort of pissed off, My sister didn't help by ordering her around and my poor mom was on the verge. On the verge of what? At this point even I don't know. Sunday was better, I tried to explain to her what the situation was (i.e. Hospice, Insurance, yada yada yada.) and she seemed to understand. After that I felt that we needed to do something to get us out of our rutt, so we went to the store and bought all of the ingrediants to make a good turkey dinner. It was fun cooking with my sister and mom. I think it helped us take our minds of what was going on in our lives. We also played rummy and I LOST big time. Mom kicked all of our asses!

Today I got a phone call from my best friend (she lives in Ohio). Her grandmother is in the same boat as my grandma (she has heart problems and was recently moved from her home to Hospice.) We talked for awhile until I started to cry and then I told her that I did't want to talk about it anymore this morning. She agreed and we talked about the weather in Ohio, our jobs and other non-sad sort of things. She really is a great friend. I don't know what I'd do without her.
I just noticed how long this post is so I think I will signoff, so as they say in Namaran:
Dabor Den!! (Good Day!)

Namaran Grammar-Book?

Well sort of. I used the layout and examples of LERNU.com's Consise Grammar and mirrored it into my own language Namaran. I like it. And since Namaran is based somewhat on Esperanto, I think it helped. I still need to add more stuff but so far so good! Here it is! Tell me what you think.

Well that's all for now....I probally won't post on the weekends but I will "see" y'all Monday!


Oh and here is "Happy Columbus Day" in Namaran. (Any day I get to take off of work is a good day!)

Srek Kolumbus Den!

Namaran

Namaran Phonology (in X-SAMPA for easy reading and understanding.):


Letter X-SAMPA Example (Sorry about the alignment, If you have any questions just post a comment and I'll try to answer it.)

Aa A father
Áá Ai ice
Bb b bat
Dd d dog
Ee* E met
Éé Ei say
Ff f fig
Gg g go
Ii i feet
Jj Z vision
Kk k kite
Ll l life
Mm m mat
Nn n net
Oo O hotel
Pp p pat
Rr r\ red
Ss s sat
Shsh S ship
Tt t top
Vv v value
Zz z zero

*Pronounced like ay in say when at the beginning and/or end of any given word.

Phonological Constraints:

Namaran syllables are (C)(C)V(C)

Any consonant can begin a syllable. The permitted initial consonant clusters are:

- s + any voiceless plosive, nasal, liquid (sp, st, sk, sm, sn, sl, and sr)

- plosive or fricative + liquid (pr, pl, br, bl, tr, tl, dr, dl, kr, kl, gr, gl, fr, fl, vr, vl, sr, sl, zr, zl, shr, shl, jr, jl)

- Any nasal + r (mr, nr)The permissible final consonants are any plosive, nasal, liquid and voiced fricative (p, b, t, d, k, g, m, n, r, l, v, z, and j)

Stress

Namaran words are lightly stressed on the final syllable. However the stress may be so light that it is barely discerned by non-native speakers or may not be recognized at all.

Elision

In Namaran, elision refers to the suppression of a final unstressed vowel immediately before another word beginning with a vowel. The term also refers to the orthographic convention by which the deletion of a vowel is reflected in writing, and indicated with an apostrophe. This most often occurs between adjectives, nouns and adverbs.

Ah...my first post. Let's see, how about a little information about myself....

My name is not Kezren, (and no I will not tell you my real name) I am 28 years old, just got my my Master's degree in Business Management and I love creating Languages, worlds and writing systems...strange I know. I own a 8yr old terrier mix dog named Daisey and hope to one day to own horses, right now I can't afford to. Well that's it for me, lets talk about Namaran.

My main conlang is called Namaran and is set in my conworld of Namar. Namaran is an IndoEuropean language based largly on German, Macedonian, Italian and Esperanto. The language is coming along nicely (at least to me) and I have most of my grammar and phonological rules solidified. Now I just have to work on the lexicon (I think that is the right word) and build my vocabulary.

The script is based on Arabic and Braille. I'll have some examples later, as I am not near my scanner or my notes. More to come later....I hope to enjoy future conversations with those with similar interests.