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  • Some notes on words and ideas tried in recent conversations:

    • Sentence structure seems to be mainly «subject» «verb» «object» order like English.
    • ¿question? -- Spanish-style question marks to indicate a sentence is a question. Helps make the language visually distinctive from both Japanese and Chinese.
    • ¡exclamation! -- Similar to above, but for exclamations.
    • «quote» -- esp. for a non-愛島言 word or explaining a term (e.g. «chili», «breakfast sandwich», «the recent past»)
    • 「quote」-- Japanese/Chinese-style quote brackets -- esp. for quoting an 愛島言 term or expression. (e.g. when you need help figuring out what a word means)
    • ゐゝ -- Neato/nice/good (slang; ゐ is an archaic Japanese hiragana, wi, usually pronounced more or less the same as い now -- i.e. ee sound. ゝ is the hiragana repetition mark. Tossed 'em in here for fun.)
    • 分心 -- understand
    • ね -- ya know/right? (sentence ending)
    • 文法 -- grammar (I made a typo -- 文保 -- before when borrowing from Japanese, but suggest replacing that...)
    • 機 -- machine
    • 愛言機 -- AI/LLM (punny... 😑️)
    • 眠 -- sleep
    • 病 -- sick/illness/health problem
    • 無好眠 -- tired (poor sleep)
    • 無眠病 -- insomnia
    • 写档 -- drawing
    • 新 -- new
    • 新写 -- edit (e.g. when describing how you updated a comment)
    • 近時 -- recently (could be read as "soon" though -- how to distinguish?)
    • 過去 -- past
    • 未来 -- future
    • 食過去 -- ate (Maybe we can use 食未来 for "will eat"? Might be interesting to experiment with use of 了 for completion of an action too but this is unexplored at time of writing.)