about my-personal-conlang
You might have noticed that most of this website is written in a weird language, like this:
vya'ae keiv-tu-gnaeptaw ngruyt tp*i sentensur.
That's my personal conlang, a language I invented in order to express myself more fluidly and clearly than I was able to in English. It has no English name besides just "my personal conlang", but in my-personal-conlang it is called keiv-tu-gnaeptaw, or "keiv-tu-gnaeptaw". (But when talking in English I just say "my personal conlang".) As of June 12025, I can speak, read, and write it semi-fluently but with a bit of hesitation. I made it because I felt like English was kind of messy, with lots of weird rules and exceptions, and as a neurodivergent person it was difficult for me to express some of the more complicated or "multidimensional" ideas that I wanted to. I felt like English wasn't "made" for me.
Here are a few examples of what I mean:
- English uses the word "good" to represent a variety of concepts, including pleasure (good food), utility (good game), moral correctness as generally agreed upon by most of humanity (good choice), effectiveness at a given task (good student), or the habitual undertaking of actions that satisfy these criteria (good person). I can think of at least seven words in my-personal-conlang which translate as "good". "love", "prefer", "can", etc. have this problem too.
- When English wants to select particular instances of a general concept, object, or general thiingkory, it can't pick them out well without resorting to hard-to-process sentence structures like "The dog that the cat that the mouse bit chased ran away." In my-personal-conlang, I would render this sentence as shurt moosur to ng<puyt>au'ii feiliitur to ng<tsheis>tii kanur tli tp*i, which has a word order something like "run-did specimen-of-genus-Mus be-bite-did-ing specimen-of-genus-Felidae be-chase-did-ing specimen-of-genus-Canus to-somewhere-from here." I find this is much easier to process, and additionally, it allows you to create nice branching structures; for example, you could elegantly also indicate, without even resorting to a separate sentence, that fleas habitually cause the cat that the dog was chased by to scratch itself.
- There are not many good English words for smells or touch sensations. I am quite sensitive to various different smells and touch sensations.
- The spelling is super inconsistent
- The words aren't defined very rigidly, and people keep using slang, which I have trouble understanding and can lead to misunderstandings.
- And more. (I have a whole rant about how atrociously bad English is at being a language, even just compared to other natural languages.)
Some notes, though:
- I do NOT think that everyone should switch to this language. That would cause problems. The language is not for everyone, and there are things it absolutely should not be used for.
- Having different writing styles is basically impossible. In English, you can be casual, formal, informal, poetic, rude, clinical... in my-personal-conlang there are only ways to express an idea and some are objectively better than others at various things so you use the one that fits your situation and to intentionally do anything else would be to be inefficient.