Operation Dip(a)lomacy: a Sequential Pidgin (Cursed Conlang Circus 3)

[@migfrarummet1907]

Missed opportunity to include the genders "friend" and "foe".

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@migfrarummet1907 shoot… you’re so correct

[@stephenkramer7157]

The rest of us were clearly being cowards when we unquestioningly accepted the sample texts provided by Agma.

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@stephenkramer7157 I don’t know if it was bravery or stupidity to have my own translation done weeks before the one that was mandatory though :’D but I might still do the second provided text in the spreadsheet, if at some point I feel like torturing myself further

[@NyxWhiteFang]

Full of puns, insane conlanging and, most importantly, live pigeon content. 10/10 no notes

[@ofwonderland7792]

holy fucking shit someone mixed pigeons and conlanging I think I'm in love you win linguistics

[@Astra-sNotSoSecretAccount]

Horrendously unhinged. I love it!

[@puarsliburf]

This one really got me, I'm a sucker for a simple well executed gag. Very well done!

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@puarsliburf thank you so much dude!!!

[@oddbirdMusic]

"bords" and "berbs", genius. Women aren't real? Perfect. I adore your work.

[@Aether48]

This is an INCREDIBLE level of quality and forethought. I'm sure you've heard everyone say "you deserve more subscribers" already, so instead I'd like to commend you on the effort and passion that is clearly evident here. Your work is very much appreciated.

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@Aether48 ah! Thank you so much!!! :’D Passion is the only thing that gets anything finished for me, haha. Or the anti-passion, which is spite

[@deithlan]

This is absolutely hilarious

[@nulliisnotreal]

I love pigeons therefore I love this too, great video with great jokes

[@CuriosityCore101]

This is INCREDIBLE. I'm going to make my friends who don't care about conglanfing watch this because even they'll love it.

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@CuriosityCore101 ahhh that means the world!!! I would love to know what they have to say about it XD

[@edgetame]

Excellent story, and I'm glad the pigeons are doing well

[@edgetame]

Also spoilers . . . . . . the delivery of the birds intentionally left blanc was a good bit

[@onei3411]

Why was this not picked up by the algorithm ?

[@LonganNguyen762]

Underrated video XD Probably the funniest one I've seen yet

[@RuanPysoft]

Dear sir, Your usage of both and in the codes indicating a pigeon's pattern when there is no reason for such a choice, has caused me an unexpected degree of injury, given the outright horrible written standards employed by some of the other codes in the CCC3 compilation. For this, I will congratulate you on a job well done. As to your demonstration, should one not use a means of motorized transportation to reach the location of release of the chosen pigeon expediently, or does your fine mustache merely grow at an abnormal rate? In regards to some of the information presented in these recordings, I would like to say that it came as a devastating blow when I first learnt that birds are, in fact, mechanised intelligence-gathering units employed by the government. But the knowledge that women are not real, is certainly a revelation that is much harder to take in stride. I weep with this knowledge you have supplied to me, and I am afraid I might come to reject it entirely, for how can one live with such a horrible truth? Lastly, I need to inform you that your excellent strategy of changing monikers every eight-to-twelve business days has, unfortunately, failed. This can be demonstrated by looking any one of them up in the index of any modern-day encyclopedia. You will, however, be relieved to hear that no person, as far as I can ascertain, has so far connected all your aliases to one identity, nor have they deduced your ties to MI-5 or covert operations. Good luck on the field, I wait with bated breath for any further reports you may yet produce regarding encrypted or obfuscated communications.

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@RuanPysoft one must keep living, good sir, for the self-evident beauty and meaning in even the most overlooked of everyday occurrences. I thank you heartily, and cross my fingers that the higher-ups will be open to radical solutions such as these. Unfortunately the nature of my fine moustache is classified information.

[@RheaDawnLanguage]

This is both intensely funny and impressive. Bravo Dorian!!! Bravo!!!

[@karimahsan341]

This video is a masterpiece, great work man

[@KatMistberg]

Absolutely hilarious, I love it!

[@kornsuwin]

this gets my vote because pigeons

[@krabstickle]

This is absolutely incredible

[@karimahsan341]

This is a very nice video

[@TheBeastyBlackSheep]

Top 15 of those I've seen.

[@cjayhay]

"There is no grammatical gender distinction, nor any gendered nouns, as such a thing seems unnecessary as, if you remember from several previous and conclusive reports of mine, women are not real." There were so many ways that sentence could have ended, and you found the funniest one.

[@viiizzaalishvili9967]

women are not teal 😂

[@nift36]

if women are not real, do trans women transition out of reality and into the blessed imaginary realm? : )

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@nift36 I don’t know… but I guess I transitioned myself into existence? Now that’s a show of willpower Definitely more impressive to manifest yourself into a higher realm though. Falling out of a tree is a lot less impressive than climbing into it.

[@teachies902]

you're so funny

[@EnderiumSmith]

Are there more resources to allow us to write in this conlang? specifically the ability to generate the graphics necessary. Also i notice that a quarter of the lexicon has no meaning assigned. Is there a way to locally assign it for the sake of brevity as to not require using loan words and proper nouns repeatedly during a conversation? also what does the rng number mean in the excel sheet?

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@EnderiumSmith If I can figure it out! (Maybe I’ll make a picrew or something hah) The quarter left open is just words I haven’t defined yet, I’m sure if I were to continue with this I’d find definitions for all of them. RNG is just the way I shuffled the definitions fufhfjhfjhfjhfifjd that’s a peek behind the curtain. Maybe with more time and energy the order would have been more deliberate. I’m glad anyone’s actually investigating the spreadsheet though XD

[@EnderiumSmith]

@@UhOhItsDorian how were the existing assets made? i assume a table of all possible ones exists somewhere, even if its missing rarer modifiers like foot feathers for some pairs. There was another conlang i saw that allowed words to be variables like in programming, so i think it would be a good addition since the way english is encoded seems a weak point if you have to spell out proper nouns that way every time. Maybe juveniles could signify variable asignment when used on empty nouns, with secondary modifiers increasing the memory without having to use foot digits

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@EnderiumSmith whoa, I don’t even understand fully what’s getting said there but I’m sure it’s a good tip XD my excuse is that I don’t think Columbus Livingston-Dover was a programmer either. I did the graphics myself in Photoshop! There’s different pieces on different layers and stuff. If I remember I’ll take a crack at fixing something up tonight.

[@EnderiumSmith]

@@UhOhItsDorian would be nice if the pidgeons could be packaged as a font, with with bold and italics giving foot feathers or adding the message, lowercase would make chicks. the foot digits might pose some problem but could probably be made with unicode diacritics kinda like Zalgo text.

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@EnderiumSmith ohhh that’s a good call… I did mess about with Picrew for several hours before realising I don’t think it’s got the capability of nuance I’d like, so… god maybe I’m going to try and learn some actual programming about it. I’ve been saying I’m going to for years

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

7:21 "women are not real", says the womanly narrator... Then again, misdirection is important for espionage. This is a wild linguistic ride, impressive info density. Plus I likely the light-hearted ribbing at the implied (non-)development of British civilization.

[@UhOhItsDorian]

@@JohnSmith-of2gu ah, but you see, it is now yourself who has been misdirected! For while I’d love to pretend I was being femme for strategic purposes, I’m actually just a transgender twink who hasn’t had any HRT… which can suck when you’re desperately trying to channel an upstanding cis gentleman from the mid 1900s (and you’re not Natasha Hodgson). Though if you wanna talk about non-development of the British civilisation, hoooboy do I have some pointers for improvement in that realm huh I’m glad the info density was a plus, I felt like it perhaps felt a little rushed so that’s reassuring (which is because by the time I was editing it _was_ rushed, but I was also terrified of leaving gaps and getting disqualified after all my hard work, and I tend to really overcorrect when I get nervous :’D)