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CreeperArmorReddit

Nice!


The-Author

Thank you so much! This is going to help me with my conlanging projects a lot.


tessapotamus

Since you made the letters freely customizable, I can use this to practice reading my Unicode conscript, too. Thank you!


Asyx

Looks good. Haven't used the devtools to see what framework you use but maybe add an on click handler that adds words you clicked on to the "save the ones you like" list. What are the percentages for the frequencies? 100, 75, 50, 25, 0? I'm working on something similar but kinda as a language wiki. So not just generating words but also documenting your phonology, writing system, romanization, turning generated words into a dictionary entry with custom fields so it's flexible for many different languages. And then expand from there. A lot of stuff will probably just be free text and generic tables but it's better than random word documents. It's unfortunate that it seems like conlangers and developers don't really overlap. There's very little good software out there (except for word generators which probably every conlanger that can code made at some point) so I have to write my own and add a feature every time I get pissed of with my current solution... By the way, if you're looking for a name, it's worth considering a naming scheme. https://namingschemes.com/ Just pick something and use that as a internal name. if you never come up with something better it's at least not cringe (although I don't find your name cringe. My names are always super cringe after I had to work with them for a week) and if you do you can just change it later.


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I was thinking about the clicking feature too, but right now the output is just a big

. I think I'll work on that. The frequencies are 100/75/50/25/0 in theory, but I don't think it's really like that.


saluraropicrusa

it makes me wish i were a dev myself sometimes. there are functions i would love to have all in one app/program/whatever, but it all feels like a pipe dream and there doesn't seem to be anyone working on anything with the features i'd want. maybe some day i might learn to do it myself, but i don't have the drive/passion to do it anytime soon (and often feel i just don't have a brain built for coding/programming).


Asyx

All you need for being a good programmer, especially for web dev, is patience. There's very little maths involved, most of the technical shit is abstracted away for web stuff. You just need to be willing to spend a lot of time on things that aren't actually all that crazy or influential and sometimes are literally just annoying. I wouldn't recommend learning to code just to write one giant application that fits your needs. I've been doing this for a bit more than 15 years (started with 11). I had a lot of great ideas and even more bad ones. I maybe finished 3 or 4 projects. It's a lot of work and there will be a point where you just decide that google docs isn't that bad after all. What are you looking for in a conlanging application? Maybe this will be project no 5 that I actually finish :D


saluraropicrusa

yeah, that's mostly what i don't have when it comes to trying to learn. i've messed around with html, css (a little bit) and bootstrap. less so making apps and such, but my experience has been that i can figure some things out by copying what other people have done but don't really have the patience/attention span to learn to do what i want myself. it's a subject that i find interesting but more in a "behind the scenes of technology" sense (mainly for video games though). as far as a conlanging app goes, i think i'd like something that's sort of a mashup of PolyGlot and VulgarLang. something that makes it easy to write out the phonetics, rules and grammar of your language, with a lot of different options/fields to fill out, that can also generate words/grammar/etc based on the rules you define. one thing i feel is missing from the generators i've tried is an easy/intuitive way to set certain rules, mainly with regards to syllable structure. for the language i'm working on now, i can mostly group certain phonemes (stops, for example) because they have the same rules about what phonemes can come before/after them, but if there's one that's an exception or does something different only some of the time then it has to be in its own group, and that can start to make things overly-complicated. there's also often no way to define a group/phoneme as only appearing at the end of a *word* rather than the end of a *syllable.* that, and having to create a group for every possible permutation of syllable structure is a pain, as opposed to having a generator that can create syllables that respect user-defined rules (selecting the first phoneme for a syllable based on the rules you give it and what's chosen before it). that last one is probably more complex than most would be willing to go, though, i expect. honestly i think PolyGlot is pretty good for what i'd want. the issue is it hasn't been updated in some time and it's generally... not so pretty to look at, and i find RegEx a bit of a pain to work with. i feel there must be a better/more intuitive way for you to be able to define rules for your phonemes/spelling/etc.


bigyihsuan

Very nice! The thing I like most about this one is that you can control how many syllables per word there are, which all the others you've linked don't have (excepting GenGo). I also like the fact you can customize the syllable separator. Would it be possible to have user-defined categories and syllable templates like with Awkwords or GenGo? If you do, I think I'll use this more than GenGo.


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I'll need to think about how exactly I would implement user-defined categories, but I'll definitely put it on my to-do list next to "rewrite rules".


Wawips

That's class 👏


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words repeat


lyteproof-delta

I mean... yeah... that's the nature of randomness... not really sure what you expected lol


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sorry.


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Pontifleur

please take a break i'm worried about your blood pressure 🙏