Glossotechnia deck

Glossotechnia
Designers	Jim Henry
Date	January 2007
Players	2+
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To play Dvorak: Draw five cards each and leave the rest as a draw pile. On your turn, draw a card from the draw pile and play one Thing and/or one Action. (See the full rules.)
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A set of cards for Glossotechnia, so that it can be played with the Dvorak Engine. Not all cards have yet been copied into the page; so far we have the syntax cards and the vowels.

DvorakMUSH

Words should be represented by Things.

Card List

V2

Thing - Syntax

Verb second

The verb is the second constituent (not word) of each clause. Any of subject, object, adverb, prepositional phrase, etc. can precde it.

E.g.: Ed cooks rice. Rice cooks Ed. Absendmindedly cooks Ed rice.

On the stove cooks Ed rice.

SVO

Thing - Syntax

subject-verb-object

E.g.: Birds eat worms.

Authors write books.

SVO

Thing - Syntax

subject-verb-object

E.g.: Birds eat worms.

Authors write books.

SOV

Thing - Syntax

subject-object-verb

E.g.: Birds worms eat.

Authors books write.

SOV

Thing - Syntax

subject-object-verb

E.g.: Birds worms eat.

Authors books write.

VSO

Thing - Syntax

verb-subject-object

Seeks Bilbo treasure.

Eats Trey mangoes.

VSO

Thing - Syntax

verb-subject-object

Seeks Bilbo treasure.

Eats Trey mangoes.

OSV

Thing - Syntax

object-subject-verb

E.g.:

Milk cats drink. Rice Ed cooks.

Languages linguists study.

OVS

Thing - Syntax

object-verb-subject

E.g.:

Milk drink cats. Rice cooks Ed.

Languages study linguists.

VSO

Thing - Syntax

verb-subject-object

E.g.:

Drink cats milk.

Cooks Ed rice.

Topic-comment

Thing - Syntax

What is talked about comes first in a sentence; what is said about it comes next.

Comment-topic

Thing - Syntax

What is talked about comes last in a sentence; what is said about it comes first.

Wildcard

Thing - Syntax

Specify a syntactic rule in force as long as this card is in play.

Wildcard

Thing - Syntax

Specify a syntactic rule in force as long as this card is in play.

Head-Modifier

Thing - Syntax

noun-adjective

verb-adverb

E.g.: dragon scaly the

eats voraciously

Head-Modifier

Thing - Syntax

noun-adjective

verb-adverb

E.g.: dragon scaly the

eats voraciously

Modifier-Head

Thing - Syntax

adjective-noun

adverb-verb

E.g.: scaly dragon

voraciously eats

Modifier-Head

Thing - Syntax

adjective-noun

adverb-verb

E.g.: scaly dragon

voraciously eats

Postpositional

Thing - Syntax

Postpositions follow their objects; postpositional phrases precede their heads.

E.g.: shelf on books

Playable only if SVO, SOV, OVS, OSV or V2 is in play.

Prepositional

Thing - Syntax

Prepositions precede their objects; prepositional phrases precede their heads.

E.g.: dragon in cave

Playable only if VSO, SVO, SOV, VOS or V2 is in play.

Prepositional

Thing - Syntax

Prepositions precede their objects; prepositional phrases precede their heads.

E.g.: dragon in cave

Playable only if VSO, SVO, SOV, VOS or V2 is in play.

i

Thing - Phoneme

high front unrounded vowel English "mach_i_ne"

i

Thing - Phoneme

high front unrounded vowel English "mach_i_ne"

y

Thing - Phoneme

high front rounded vowel

French "t_u_"

German "f_ü_"

I

Thing - Phoneme

open high front unrounded vowel English "p_i_ck"

ɨ

Thing - Phoneme

high central unrounded vowel

Polish "m_y_sz"

Approx. English "t_i_p"

a

Thing - Phoneme

low front unrounded vowel

French "p_a_tte" German "R_a_t"

Approx. English "c_o_t"

u

Thing - Phoneme

high back rounded vowel

French "ou"

Approx. Eng. "sh_oe_"

u

Thing - Phoneme

high back rounded vowel

French "ou"

Approx. Eng. "sh_oe_"

ɯ

Thing - Phoneme

high back unrounded vowel

Turkish "_ı_l_ı_k" Hixkaryana "k_à_r_à_"

Approx. Eng. "sh_oe_box"

e

Thing - Phoneme

close-mid front unrounded vowel

French "paté"

Approx. Eng. "may"

e

Thing - Phoneme

close-mid front unrounded vowel

French "paté"

Approx. Eng. "may"

o

Thing - Phoneme

close-mid back rounded vowel

Spanish "n_o_" French "c_ô_te"

Approx. Eng. "s_o_"

o

Thing - Phoneme

close-mid back rounded vowel

Spanish "n_o_" French "c_ô_te"

Approx. Eng. "s_o_"

ɔ

Thing - Phoneme

open-mid back rounded vowel English "_ou_ght", "l_aw_"

ʌ

Thing - Phoneme

open-mid back unrounded vowel English "th_u_s", "c_u_p"

ə

Thing - Phoneme

mid central unrounded vowel (schwa) English "_a_go"

ɛ

Thing - Phoneme

open-mid front unrounded vowel English "m_e_t"

ʊ

Thing - Phoneme

high back open rounded vowel Eng. "l_oo_k"

æ

Thing - Phoneme

open low unrounded vowel Eng. "t_a_ck"

ɑ

Thing - Phoneme

low back unrounded vowel English "m_o_p"

ɑ

Thing - Phoneme

low back unrounded vowel English "m_o_p"

ø

Thing - Phoneme

close-mid front rounded vowel

French "chant_eu_se"

German "b_ö_se"