Grammaticalizing Lemons | Conlanging

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

This video is the most perfect thing anyone has ever made ❤️🍋

[@NakariSpeardane]

Thank-🍋!!! That means a lot especially coming from you :D

[@lipamanka]

You two should do a collab! I think this channel needs more attention - it's a growing genre.

[@sully9767]

Agreed

[@furnaceheadgames9001]

Hi

[@furnaceheadgames9001]

I'm a fan

[@humanfromsomewhere]

The ability for bronze lemon armor to mean something mundane has made my day. I want this to be used in English... can we start a lemon movement?

[@NakariSpeardane]

Yes! We can call ourselves the lemon-speaking-person-lemon.

[@kremstoin]

Well, when life gives you lemons..... You make language out of it

[@anonymousperson2327]

I love the random use of lemons, very entertaining it seems wild to say 'bone lemon' but i guess it wouldn't be strange if you used it all your life. Also i think the word lemon would lose its meaning, and how would you say a group of lemons.

[@MySerpentine]

Lemon lemon.

[@senesterium]

Amazing content ! Well written, efficiently illustrated. And thank you for the subtitles. You speak very well and your accent is valid, but I must say it's very challenging for me to understand you, as a non-native speaker.

[@NakariSpeardane]

Thank you! Heh, that is a great reminder to always take the extra moment to put on subtitles. I'm glad they helped you!

[@odyssei9]

Such a great video! This is the start of a really interesting channel. You have a unique mix of informational knowledge and creative exploration. Keep it up!

[@NakariSpeardane]

Thank you so much!! I find explaining these kinds of things in videos a surprising amount of fun and I'm looking forwards to making more :D

[@Clockehwork]

Going through your videos, I already subscribed after the first one, but this is something else. It's just a simple grammar quirk, yet (or perhaps because of that) is some of the best, cleverest worldbuilding I have seen.

[@NakariSpeardane]

Thank you so much! 💛🍋

[@alfzepo9976]

I’m not into conlang, or grammar much. But this was amazing and very interesting! I love your creativity!

[@lilalampenschirm3203]

I’m so looking forward to seeing more videos from you! (especially conlanging, hehe) Beautiful work!

[@jankima8646]

2:20 This vid was made by Nakari 🍋 🍋 🍋. Nakari 🍋 would be the family of Nakari, I presume Nakari 🍋 🍋 would be a group of people from Nakari's family, I presume Nakari 🍋 🍋 🍋 would be many groups of people from Nakari's family that together make up Nakari's entire family, I presume This is all speculation. I do not speak Elush, i am purely guessing.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

This was so cool and reminded me that having eccentric derivations is perfectly normal. I hope you get more subscribers!

[@silversteampunk]

I LOVED this video! I love that concept so much!!

[@minaminari5834]

frikkin cool video and super creative!!

[@panainpublic]

This is really creative, I've never seen/heard anything like this before!

[@cauliflowerpower1025]

Never heard of a more genius derivation

[@vipza72130]

Really an ingenuously good idea ^^

[@jankiwen1328]

Wow,really enjoyed the video,it's a really creative way for a language to work,but with the way you explein it gives so much life and realism to the culture and language,reminding me of world building notes,loved your content :)

[@sully9767]

Love this idea! Well made!

[@davidegaruti2582]

Beautiful , well made contnent by another talented world builder with an extremely soft and pleasing voice ...

[@soton4010]

Thank you for adding to KZbin what is lack (except for bib, eger, ewa) world building for the sake of the world and not the method

[@Thelukestudio]

Wait, who is this Eger,and why don't I know him?

[@soton4010]

@@Thelukestudio eger is artifexian

[@Thelukestudio]

@@soton4010 And I hoped it's somebody new :/ Thanks EDIT: I thought he is called Edgar 🤔

[@soton4010]

@@Thelukestudio I cant spell then

[@bazoo513]

Now, this was not only beautiful and imaginative but also pleasantly funny. Marvelous worldbuilding!

[@galileor.cuevas9739]

As a conlanger looking for inspiration, your videos have turned out very useful. And this very video is wholesome. Greetings from Mexico.

[@ciaotiziocaius4899]

I will never see a lemon the same way again

[@frogalicious7239]

I've been working on evolving a conscript to go with my conlangs and this has been great inspiration! Keep up the awesome work! :)

[@katakana1]

This reminds me of the evolution of Japanese internet slang for laughing. "To laugh" is "warau" in Japanese, and on the Japanese internet, it was shortened to "wwwww". Because the repeated w's look like a drawing of grass, they started using the kanji 草 with the same meaning, pronounced "kusa". Later, people started using things like 大草原 and 森生える, which went an even _further_ level of abstraction away!

[@josiahbancroft4168]

I love this video and how easily you explain grammaticalization! Can I quote this example for a short essay that I'm writing for my linguistics class? (all the way in NZ!)

[@NakariSpeardane]

I'm honored, of course you can :D

[@jankima8646]

if lemon = coherent group, then could lemon segment mean one thing from that coherent group e.g. horse-lemon = a herd of horses horse-lemon-segment = a horse from the herd or a horse that belongs to a herd?

[@anonymousperson2327]

wouldn't just horse mean that?

[@jankima8646]

@@anonymousperson2327 if you wanted to emphasise that the horse was in a herd, for example, perhaps to say that the horse is not for sale

[@anonymousperson2327]

@@jankima8646 yeah

[@buchelaruzit]

idk what to say, other than, INCREDIBLY COOL

[@junolee8826]

hewwo!! biblaridion sent me :) this is the first of your videos ive watched, and this idea is so fun and cool!! i love it!

[@jakubpociecha8819]

Every Villain Is Lemons

[@jojotanner4761]

What if a long lost member of a family was found and they had a party for it, so a few people decide to play a drinking game where every time the word for 🍋 is used, how drunk would they get?

[@thedoctor6265]

cute