If-Thrikk and the Apostrophe
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If there's one thing of note about If-Thrikk, it's the versatility of the apostrophe. I really didn't want to include it at first. When my friend (who "hired" me as a conlanger for a story she's writing) showed me the roots she had come up with, and I saw the apostrophe nestled in between some syllables, I groaned inwardly. I've had bad experiences with the apostrophe in my earlier conlanging days, and I was loathe to include it in what could end up as my first
The first use of the apostrophe is to place the stress on the following syllable. In If-Thrikk, stress is put on the first syllable by default; taken from the way most two-syllable roots, such as dira and mȯra, came to me. However, there were some outliers. Omnur, ubreen, and Nitre didn't quite work. I knew how my friend, C, wanted them to sound, but the state of the orthography left me unable to make them sound that way without retconning a ton of already existing features. Behold, the apostrophe, then just a letter, swept in to save the day! The root ku'ị and race names A'vii and Na'gaa gave me an idea on how things should work. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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