{"id":892,"date":"2003-05-26T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2003-05-26T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=892"},"modified":"2018-02-21T01:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T09:24:49","slug":"still-looking-for-a-set-of-elvish-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"still looking for a set of Elvish filters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living languages are always changing; the most conspicuous way they change is in their sounds, and this change is generally regular &#8212; which is why it&#8217;s possible to imitate another dialect even if you&#8217;ve never heard the particular words spoken in that dialect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/akana.conlang.org\/tools\/gsca0.8\/\">Geoff&#8217;s Sound Change Applier<\/a> (link updated 2018) is a swell toy.  You feed it a word in the parent language, and a list of rules for changes between that and a descendant language, and SCA predicts the descendant form of that word.  For a sample, Geoff includes a (crude) list of rules to transform Latin words into Castilian words.  This way you can quickly test the accuracy of a given reconstruction of such changes.<\/p>\n<p>Those who play at inventing languages (a sport whose most famous player was Tolkien) can use SCA to generate a whole family of languages.  What fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living languages are always changing; the most conspicuous way they change is in their sounds, and this change is generally regular &#8212; which is why it&#8217;s possible to imitate another dialect even if you&#8217;ve never heard the particular words spoken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}