Alright folks! We’ve got some Project news and Team news today, so stick around until the end! As usual, we’ll start off with the Project news!
We’ve finally gotten around to that verification thing for the austronesian alignment theory! You may recall that since austronesian alignment is a whole word ordering rule, it has to apply to every sentence in Hallowspeak. Which means, to verify it, we have to check every single voice line in the game!!! God damn!!
Lemme run you through how we do this on a few example voice lines. First, a super easy one: Quirrel’s “namino bis”. We know that “namino” is a verb, since it has the second person plural verb ending. We also know that “bis” is an adverb, meaning “very”. So this sentence doesn’t even have an object, so we don’t even need to worry about the austronesian alignment rules! This sentence fits!
Now a much harder one. “Manema tocuro namyn”, also from Quirrel. If you remember, we’d figured out that the “curo nam” grammatical construction is a passive, to go along with the austronesian alignment. (See Update 23 if you have no idea what in fuck I’m talking about). We can tell from the verb inflection here (“yn” at the end of namyn” and “to” before “curo”) that the thing being ‘added back’ is “you”.
We know that the subject is “manema”, because it’s a noun, and it doesn’t have the accusative (object marker). If a noun isn’t shown to be the object using the accusative suffix, the default is that it’s the subject! “Manema” means “the fortune”, which is inanimate, and the other argument is “you”, which is animate. However, an inanimate subject and an animate object isn’t allowed with austronesian alignment, so, as we’ve seen, the passive is used! This one fits perfectly!
Now for one where not everything is already there for us: “belo ba nakoden”, from Quirrel. We don’t know the meanings of “belo” or “nakoden”, and they don’t end in any suffixes that we know either! But we can still figure out if this one fits. How? Well that small word “ba” means “my”, and anything that comes after “my” has to be a noun, right? Like you can’t say “my eat” or “my big” – those aren’t nouns!
As for “belo”, let’s just consider the possibilities for what it could be. If “belo” is a noun or adjective, then “belo ba nakoden” is just a noun phrase. There would be no verb, no action taking place, so the austronesian alignment rule isn’t needed! If “belo” is a verb, then that sentence would only have a subject, no object! The object goes before the verb in Hallowspeak (example: “I see dogs” in Hallowspeak = “dogs see I”), and since there’s nothing before “belo”, there’s no object, so the austronesian alignment rules also aren’t needed! So even though we don’t know what those words even are, all the possibilities fit the austronesian alignment theory!!
But, what about a sentence like “hakana segamys” from Hornet. We don’t know any of the words here. We have no clues at all, and so there’s no way we could figure anything out! So in cases like this, where it’s not just very hard, but impossible to figure out; we’ve decided to say that it fits. Just because, if everything that we can analyse fits a theory, then why would the stuff we can’t figure out yet not fit?
So with these methods, we’ve checked all the voice lines from Quirrel, Hornet, Zote, Elderbug, Cornifer, Sly, the Old Stag, Snail Shaman, Millibelle, and Cloth! And? Well, they all fit the theory!!!! With such success, I’m not even sure if we should check all the rest of the lines: maybe just a few random weird ones just to make sure? But honestly, it is looking like the austronesian alignment theory is definitely correct!!!!
Next up on the agenda, the logos! Two weeks ago, we asked all of you to give us ideas for a Hallowspeak logo!! And well,,, okay nobody gave any ideas for some reason.. However, despite our loyal viewers’ apparent lack of brains, we do have some initial ideas courtesy of Hallowspeak Team Member Crowan! Check em out!
These look awesome, and they’re only our first initial ideas! Still, we urge all of you guys to give us ideas: drawings or just little elements you think would look good in a logo!! I can’t wait to see what we come up with!!
Switching gears to the Team news: the person who messaged us about the possibility of making Hallowspeak keyboards has joined the Hallowspeak Server! Let’s all welcome Rosie to the Hallowspeak family!!! They say that they still haven’t received confirmation from Team Cherry about licensing stuff, which is a funny word that I don’t know the meaning of, but apparently it means they’re still not sure if this is actually going to become a product you can buy.
As well as this, anyone who’s requested any names written in Hallowscript will know that the new version of Hallowscript is far from complete. The old version of the alphabet from the old reddit posts is severely outdated, and so much about The Hallowspeak Project has changed since then. The new version, on the other hand, only has 3 letters so far.
In any case, we are really happy to be working with Rosie on this super exciting project! We’re super interested in seeing how this is gonna turn out, and how we’re going to create a keyboard in Hallowspeak! This has even revitalised the Hallowscript deciphering efforts, with the addition of a #neography channel to the Hallowspeak server! All we need now is a fun and witty name for this new project…. how do you combine “neography” and “entomology”?
And of course, finally, the joke news!!! Following on from the horrible, awful, distressing, and simply terrible information that was brought to my attention in Hallowspeak Update 25, the Hallowspeak server has seen the addition of a #speak-hallow channel, to get the other Hallowspeak Team Members to actually learn Hallowspeak!
And, of course, who could forget the huge, heated argument that happened here in #hallowspeak-development on Tuesday! For those who weren’t there, things got real angry and insults were thrown as we ravenously argued about if French or Spanish is better! Somehow, I was the sole member of Team French, and all those other Spanish idiots were against me!!! Why did so many Spanish people suddenly start flooding this channel anyway??? Was this planned???? Are all the Spanish people coming to beat my ass?? What’s going on??? THERE ARE SO MANY SPANISH PEOPLE HERE!!!!!!
This argument even escalated further spilling into the Hallowspeak server! I created the #spanish-speaker-jail channel, but before I could even give the context to the Members who aren’t in this server, basically the entire rest of the Team was against me!! They were all arguing that Spanish is better, and renamed the channel to #french-speaker-jail!! I can’t believe all the other Hallowspeak Members are dumb idiots!! Eventually though, Mops helped us to reach a compromise, and settled on the name #romance-language-speaker-jail. At least we had some sort of agreement ?. I’m still firing them all, though.
Aaaaaaaaaand that’s the end of this update! I hope you enjoyed this much more productive week, and of course all our shenanigans too!! :p Tune in next time, folks!!