The Only Correct Way To Speak: HyperFormal (Conlang Showcase)

If there is one prescriptivism to enforce upon the world, let it be this, the linguistic cousin to HyperPirate and the language rightfully owed its spot as future IAL.
Also, let this be just a small taste of cursedness to whet your appetites for the upcoming Cursed Conlang Circus event.
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[@gaxamillion_]

comgratulations for inventing dutch

[@erentoraman2663]

Danish is literally right there

[@LaCarchita]

*danish

[@Tesana]

Danish crossed with Georgian.

[@mollof7893]

Smøre brø mæ grød

[@fruitfulz]

indeed, comgratulations

[@fenghualiu2653]

Effortless speech sounds are considered informal as speaking without potentially choking on yourself is utterly disrespectful 😂

[@belcarra]

God I love how you had to clarify that your normal coughing wasn’t part of the sentence xd

[@twosmartfouryou2537]

I imagine they also have a "Formula of Apologizing for Grossly Informal Misspeech" that you'd have to recite after every time you accidentally coughed

[@HarkerFerry]

@@twosmartfouryou2537 It would be utterly disrespectful and informal for such formulation to be less than two minutes long, I'm sure

[@eyeofthasky]

well, it was obvious to the average astute reader, since (sorry no yogh or dotless i/j, so ill use ' and dotted i/j here) he said 'j'j'j while the text read jj ....very wrong grammar and also way too dialectal to be considered hyperformal at all by the capital's inhabitants

[@Kirbman]

I was expecting the honorifics to be ridiculous. I was not disappointed.

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

Needs more social registers. (Also, dukes are the highest nobility. If you're above a duke, you've crossed the threshold between nobility and royalty. The ultra-hyper-mega-duke awaits your three-hour apology. Any mistakes, including incorrect timing or any misplaced coughs, will of course require an even longer and more precise apology.)

[@David280GG]

What if you dont do it

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

@@David280GG then you would be excluded from polite society

[@Timi-j3q]

@@David280GG mortal combat

[@Timi-j3q]

@@David280GG unless youre a child then mortal wombat

[@peppermintally4409]

Ah, the infamous Dutch-Japaneese creole. It was about time someone made a video about it

[@TryinaD]

This is just alternate universe Indonesia

[@imgvillasrc1608]

@@TryinaD Indonesia had so much potential to have much more finesse, grace, and formality that would make their colonial overlords look uncivilised primitives in comparison. smh.

[@GregoryMom]

That's just Goptjaam

[@devofficialchannel]

Thank goodness the British Empire spoke English. I cannot imagine HyperFormal becoming a lingua franca.

[@Denneth_D.]

The day has finally came for HyperFormal HyperPirate will be a faded memory in comparison the beauty of HyperFormal (better than the EasterLang I’m still waiting Agma!)

[@StockhausenScores]

I have an idea for it: Only very high tones, labialized plosives and labialized k

[@negativezer0917]

conlang idea: language spoken entirely through coughs, sneezes, and sniffles

[@livedandletdie]

I mean there's several different coughs, sneezes and sniffles, so it's not impossible. Imagine getting sick in such a place, and accidentally cursing someone's mother..

[@wyntyrr]

I’m current working on a Lang like that. The sentence “I am a person” is ɺ˞ɞɺ˞ɞʒɿʘ̴ʞɿʞɧ, which is pronounced as [yꜜp̚.yꜜp̚.t͡ʃʼʉ.ʡ̩ʼʡ͡ʜ], or two hiccups, a sneeze, and two coughs.

[@goombizdvorakkiewicz5226]

I think this is it.

[@MoonOfCheese]

hyperunwell

[@davidross2004]

Following your suggestion: “Clears throat with a short and assertive burst of cough.”

[@sinom]

Everyone talking about dutch danish etc. meanwhile this is actually just Japanese. Japanese has at least 4 major levels of formality with more granular distinctions within those levels. Talking to someone in the wrong level, both too formal or not formal enough, is seen as impolite and can be offensive. There of course are also over a dozen honorifics and ways of addressing yourself a second person or a third person all of them having different situations in which they are appropriate.

[@StockhausenScores]

Korean has 6 levels of formality!

[@LuNa_097]

pretty easy if ur a weeb

[@cmyk8964]

Agma Schwa is back, once again, with a phonology that is indistinguishable from someone dying

[@newthornsamerose]

Not sure why i just watched someone cough into their mic for 30minutes but I enjoyed it.

[@joannasthings]

this was absolutely painful to listen to, though not nearly as much as much as it probably was to say. thank you for this amazing piece of postmodern art

[@otesunki]

it sounds like youre constantly in a state of about to burst into laughter

[@alexilonopoulos3165]

This video is a certified nguh classic (I haven’t watched it yet)

[@theluckyredshirt1764]

I am fairly certain, though I could be wrong (thus rendering my speech informal, forcing self-incarceration), that actually coughing during the the middle of speech would warrant a severe apology or even self-incarceration, as this act is very informal.

[@SillyIdea]

At first i wondered how they would address an accidental cough when speaking like yours. I bet there's a distinct handkerchief you use for non word coughs, that you then must offer to your conversational partner as an apology gift.

[@reginaldthunderfuck4832]

Me: I want to learn about constructed language because I read lord of the rings once. The internet: *Hyper-Formal*

[@daxx3232]

im ready for the hyperformal gods to take me to their cursed realm

[@MatthewsPersonal]

Little known fact, John Lennon was fluent in hyper formal. You can hear a rare example of it in the song "you know my name (look up the number)"

[@Bealzabub]

My body is ready

[@sKadazhnief]

how 'bout your tongue?

[@efjay3183]

Sounds like the average English grandpa recounting the battle of the Somme after three pints

[@oresttheproto]

the fact he sounds as if he's hysterically wheezing instead of speaking a language makes it even better

[@teamcyeborg]

4:02 POV: You just handed ηə a LaCroix and he drank it too fast

[@LeReubzRic]

Um actually its ŋə ☝️🤓

[@donovantownshend8783]

ohmygod there's a yogh

[@livedandletdie]

yogh is best symbol. Should be brought back into English. I ƿas laȝing að þe laƿȝer, ðe hað forgot ðer belt, and þus shoƿeð to all ðere arse. I was laughing at the lawyer, they had forgot their belt and thus showed to all their arse.

[@WheatDos]

And it's a glottal stop, for some reason beyond our informal understanding.

[@regularpepper2414]

Mortal wombat had me dying of laughter

[@haumea2097]

Great conlang! It sounds like if you were constantly bursting out laughing. Does anyone know what is the music under the missle folktale part? I can't find it in the description.

[@pnkcnlng228]

For Italian language speaker: This sounds like a person from Calabria is speaking, that's just factual

[@StockhausenScores]

Why? I thought they had the Neapolitan phonology...

[@ottolehikoinen6193]

Oh, a version of lojban that actually can be used to sell snake-oil.

[@holdingpattern245]

also known as "Harrumphing"

[@alpaniaball]

Well job for speaking it right and the phonemes are very chaotic!

[@gearsie_]

the lapis body pillow 💀💀💀

[@LeReubzRic]

Theres gotta be a reason why the bottom of it is cut out 🤨🤨🤨😶😶

[@SpaghettiDog86.]

why is this the only comment I’ve seen about it

[@kajvanveen5302]

I can’t tell wether I’ve died already or not

[@Hallow1]

this is the language of boomers durring pianissimo sections in clasical performances

[@meltossmedia]

Alternate history if the Dutch colonized Ethiopia:

[@saiphrivas1437]

the lapis body pillow???????

[@livedandletdie]

This sounds like the perfect language for those who spend all their days complaining and whining on twitter. ŋə never fails to make the most cursed linguistical stuff imaginable.

[@zakuro8532]

It wont pass the text limit though

[@Mia-ub7tc]

This just makes me wonder about the possibility of a hyper-informal/hyper-casual... though, would they even make the effort to make anything other than lazy mouth noises... or teach the language in the first place? I honestly dunno, really.

[@jordannewbold8769]

Isn’t this the language Winston Churchill spoke?

[@iamfunnierthanyou4882]

robert, im gonna speedrun a conlang sometime soon and send you the video!

[@AgmaSchwa]

yesss, do it!

[@mr.flibblessumeriantransla5417]

As much as I enjoy these, lately it seems like all these conlangs are simply trying to outcompete one another for either [apparent] unpronounceability, or for the most bizarre phonemes that can be strung together. While I marvel at the ingenuity, I find the aesthetics to be more about shock value than philological excercise. Part of any worthwhile conlang is its aesthetic property, and even though phonologically bizarre ones like HyperPirate or HyperFormal are fun at face value, in my opinion they become tedious after awhile. Nonetheless, I do admire the dedication to the craft and the uniqueness of the concepts portrayed.

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

now say it in hyperformal

[@SpaghettiDog86.]

I’m quite surprised I’ve only seen ONE comment on the lapis bodypillow lmao ☠️

[@JadeZaslavsky]

this is so informal. the language isn't even tonal!

[@tayntedmemories]

lapis body pillow

[@nappotapo2672]

hypoformal when?

[@biblicallyaccurateangel2476]

the hyperformal who live on the hyperpelago

[@hmnsdnssx]

the one time in my life that i wish one side of my headphones were broken

[@maybenextweek418]

speaking this language sounds like michael jackson making obscure sound effects.

[@stephaniesmith7317]

Hand-tossed word salad. For an additional fee a grammar & pronunciation sommelier will remain throughout the conversation to intermittently wipe the drooling spittal of saliva dripping off your chin.

[@fabulouschild2005]

You should translate Lamar roasting Franklin in GTAV into HyperFormal

[@Amaiguri]

God, it's so cursed... Christ XD

[@Denneth_D.]

The best kind of cursed Would be funny if you made a cursed lang :3

[@generikadeyo]

The consonant inventory of an advanced theoretical linguist and the vowel inventory of grandpa dying from a pulmonary embolism is a bold choice

[@MizhiBirb]

haha why do you have a lapis body pillow. no judging just curiosity

[@AgmaSchwa]

it's a deep cut from the Discord server, a joke from over a year ago turned into a Lapis Body Pillow being delivered to my house by one of my patrons, and she's been with me ever since, lol

[@MizhiBirb]

@@AgmaSchwa ah i see, i love that so much!

[@haXXiGD]

Congratulations, you've invented "The language of trying to get a hair out of your mouth with your hands tied behind your back"

[@alessandrorossi1294]

Thank you, this random video recommendation finally made it make sense to me why people make constructed languages.

[@Tasorius]

Now I understand why wars are started and civilizations are burned...

[@chloegan9386]

ʋ̰̩̩̃ is so cursed

[@StockhausenScores]

gotta love me some syllabic nasalised creaky-voiced voiced labiodental fricative

[@FarzanaFathima-t4e]

Axis language: Japanese script, German vocab and Italian grammar.

[@alexciorita8402]

how much would i have to donate to make you turn off the background music forever?

[@DrepaChorusTCG]

every one meet the dying of laughter conlang

[@mikepro500]

HyperAsthma

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

ŋə

[@DustyMasonJar]

why must you hurt yourself so..

[@dulunis]

wtf is the bodypillow lmao

[@cinthiarosasromero5239]

Oh! a Japanese and Dutch ship!

[@paulinalevina9690]

Is this Danish?

[@LordJemse]

Look mom I'm in a youtube video

[@werlynakadera1944]

The White Glove Society (FNV)

[@i_ate_a_cat_]

Wow polish language is so beautiful

[@object-official]

where's femboy agma schwa?

[@object-official]

in the background

[@theredknight9314]

Interesting….but also is that a body pillow?

[@TwighlightLugia]

This shit is basically just comprised entirely of noises a FromSoft NPC would make during a conversation

[@nyuh]

nyuh

[@aldebaranlover]

oh GOD what happened here

[@StarGarnet03]

This language sounds like me when i laugh at a funny meme someone sent in a discord chat

[@thedinobros1218]

So, are Hyperformal and Hyperpirate mutually intelligible?

[@Denneth_D.]

*WHERE IS HYPERBEE!*

[@StockhausenScores]

All dental frickatives

[@StockhausenScores]

Dental fricatives and all their variants

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

me no understand hyperformal man

[@HalfAsleepSam]

Depending on how british you are this should just be french

[@davidvelasco4423]

What is 19:20 a reference to?

[@AgmaSchwa]

It's an old verbose meme called "The Missile Knows Where It Is," haha.

[@gotoastal]

Neat. Funny. Sucks that it seems the community is locked into a proprietary service like Discord instead of something open source.

[@babelingua]

How would Hyperformal loan clhp’xwlhtlhplhhskwts from Nuxalk? IPA: [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ] Translation: 'he had had [in his possession] a bunchberry plant.' I expect a full report on my desk by Monday, good sir!

[@sunburnedshirts3724]

language nerds reading [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ] for the first time:

[@StockhausenScores]

He had in his possession a bunchberry plant