{"id":295,"date":"2008-11-12T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=295"},"modified":"2008-11-12T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:58:07","slug":"bring-brang-brung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/bring-brang-brung\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring, brang, brung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I have an idea for a language system.\u00a0 Well, really, it&#8217;s not much of a language system, just a quirk that if done right could make one character feel like they&#8217;re from a different place\/culture.\u00a0 Or&#8230;it could make them sound very childish or annoying.\u00a0 Regardless, here it is:<\/p>\n<p>I work at the FHSS Writing Lab, and when we don&#8217;t have much going on (like now, as I write this), I sit around doing online grammar lessons.\u00a0 The one I was working on today had to do with irregular verbs, and their present, past, and &#8220;have&#8221; forms.\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ring, rang, rung<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as in, &#8220;I <em>ring<\/em> the doorbell,&#8221; &#8220;I <em>rang<\/em> the doorbell,&#8221; and &#8220;I <em>have rung<\/em> the doorbell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, what if you changed all these verbs to make them regular&#8211;or at least, to make groups of them regular?\u00a0 Could you use this principle to form a useful dialect in a fantastic world?\u00a0 Here are some ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ring, rang, rung<\/li>\n<li>think, thank, thunk<\/li>\n<li>weep, wept, wupt<\/li>\n<li>swing, swang, swung<\/li>\n<li>strike, strake, struck<\/li>\n<li>sting, stang, stung<\/li>\n<li>sting, stank, stunk<\/li>\n<li>bring, brang, brung<\/li>\n<li>teach, taych, tawch<\/li>\n<li>sweep, swept, swupt<\/li>\n<li>tell, tale, tole<\/li>\n<li>sleep, slept, slupt<\/li>\n<li>sit, sat, sut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Etc.\u00a0 Or you could try and do some other rule, like<em> bring, brought, brought<\/em> to <em>run, rought, rought<\/em>.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m finished working now, so I&#8217;m going to take off and leave that to you to figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I have an idea for a language system.\u00a0 Well, really, it&#8217;s not much of a language system, just a quirk that if done right could make one character feel like they&#8217;re from a different place\/culture.\u00a0 Or&#8230;it could make them sound very childish or annoying.\u00a0 Regardless, here it is: I work at the FHSS Writing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/bring-brang-brung\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bring, brang, brung<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-story-ideas","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}