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Foxspeak

Foxspeak (Az’s idiolect) is a linguistic construct I am unsure how to classify loosely based on furspeak.

Vocalisations

Vocalisations come in two intensities: lowercase (normal meaning) and uppercase (intensified meaning).

  • a - acknowledgement call
  • aa - alert call
  • aaa - alarm call

So “AAA” could be considered extreme distress or imminent danger.

Pronouns

First-person pronouns all simplify to fox.

Third-person pronouns always use they/them, never gendered pronouns.

Rules

  • -en denotes multiple when used on a noun except on nomf where nomfs is used
  • -y denotes a state of the word
  • Past tense is denoted by -’d or -d
  • Present participle/gerund is denoted by -ing or -en
  • Future/present uses the base word like nouns
  • -en’d - denotes recent past tense
  • -s denote alternate plural form or pres or third person like English

Lexicon

  • nomf - Expresses the general idea of food
    • nomf - food (noun)
    • nomfs - foods (plural noun)
    • nomf - eating food (verb) - present/future tense
    • nomf’d - ate food (verb) - past tense
    • nomfing/nomfen - eating food (verb) - present participle/gerund
    • nomfen’d - recent past tense of eating food
    • nomfy - hungry (adjective)
  • Honourary fox - Non-humon creature that has been bestowed the honour of being recognised as a fox.

General terms/borrowings

  • knot - to fuck/preferred spelling of the negation not
  • dock - to dock sheathes
  • rocket - dick
  • zoomie - to move around without reason quickly