So I've got another new conlang that I've just started literally today because I laid down to go to sleep and my brain was like "Nope, you get this instead." I started with just a few simple rules. I don't really have a plan for this, I'm just seeing what comes experimenting with it. So far, I've figured out some things about the culture it would come from that are interesting, given the logic of how words are constructed.

The rules so far:

1. Nouns start with N (sometimes)
2. Adjectives with B
3. Verbs with T
4. Plural words have the prefix Ka
5. Addition of prefix Ko makes possessive.
6. Addition of prefix Ka is a stronger form of possession, mostly related to Identity and things that are part of you that cannot or should not be removed. (body parts, souls, but also names)
7. Very basic ideas have simple words (kinda, sorta; the definitions of 'basic' here are not standard) and more complex words are made by sticking those together like Legos. (Something I do a lot with these conlangs.)
8. While English uses SVO word order (Subject Verb Object, like in "Sam ate apples.") this language, which has no name so far, uses OVS: Object Verb Subject. So "Sam ate apples" becomes "Apples ate Sam." I have done this before, too.
9. So far the adverb aspect is a bit weird, because some word parts that would be adverbs in English are, well, just part of the word. IE, you don't say "I move toward you," you say "(you) ("move" base word + "toward" modifier") (I)." In the actual language, that is nek tazee nak'az. Though this example is not great because I don't like the logic of the word for "toward," which is that it means "intentional inward movement." It doesn't quite fit the meaning of "toward." I mean it's great for if you're talking about something moving toward yourself, but... oooh. Multiple words for toward, depending on directionality and who or what is moving towards who/what!
It's even weirder, given how many different words they have for movement already. (See "C" in the list below.)
10. Oh yeah. For some reason, I've decided there aren't any capital letters. Yet.

Things I've figured out so far:

A. If I did it / can do it right, you can tell at a glance if a word is an adjective, verb, or (sometimes) a noun depending on the letter a word starts with. Nouns are trickier because nouns so far tend to be descriptive, apart from some very basic ones. Like the word for "sound" basically means "inherent movement of air." ("Inherent movement" means that, by definition, whatever you're talking about has movement of some kind as an inherent part of its identity, like planets, the sun, rivers, and sound.) So it's a noun made from a noun and a verb. And the verb part comes before the noun.
      Taking things a step further, their word for "word" is basically "sound of/from the mind." The word for "name" is the same, but with the appropriate possessive prefix, changing the meaning to "my sound-from-the-mind." Or broken down even further, "my 'inherent movement of the air, from the mind.'" (Their word for name, for now, is thus ka'taymum. [kaa tame uhm] The apostophes are just there to make the meaning and pronunciation easier to parse.)

B. There are two different words for 'flesh,' differentiating animal flesh from plant flesh. This culture also thinks of themselves as intelligent, ensouled animals, therefore they use the word for "animal flesh" when talking about their own bodies. Their word for "person," nams'oom, means "animal flesh with soul." In-universe because they assume all animals have minds, but really I just thought namsum'oom sounded weird and clunky. I kinda want them to have something in their language that shows they think all animals have souls and minds, while still differentiating their own kind of soul or mind slightly due to complexity or something, but I haven't worked out how to do that yet.

C. They have different word parts for movement differentiating inherent movement, intentional movement, accidental movement, and intentional movement that is malicious. Not really sure what this says about them, but it says something.

D. Their language's pronouns are: I. Combined "I/me," II. Combined "they/them," III. Combined "we/our," IV. A singular "you" and V. A plural "you." | To make a pronoun possessive, add the appropriate prefix ("temporary possessive" or "identity-inherent possessive." See rules list at the top.) This is just "so far."

EDIT: Changing the logic of the word for sound to something else. Not sure what yet. I like the idea of it meaning "intentional movement of mind," but there are other ways of interpreting that, like "any action you do intentionally" and/or "telekinesis."

Also having Thoughts about words that describe size. With words for wide, narrow, long, short, big, and small... do I even need words like fat, skinny, thin, and scrawny? Are these not just synonyms for the others I already have? Are there any good reasons to include words like them? Can a fat person not just be described as 'wide'? A skinny person as 'narrow'? I mean I guess "fat" as it means the stuff in your body would be an important distinction to make, I guess, if only for its use as something in your diet. Hmm... it's just, I'm trying to determine how many size descriptors a language really needs, and not just translating things willy nilly.

After all, I'm building potential word parts by this metric:

measurements: (vowel)+B
pronouns: (vowel)+K
elements: (vowel)+M
flesh: (vowel)+MS
directions: (vowel)+T OR (vowel)+z

movements: T+(vowel)
Nouns: N+(?)
Adjectives: B+(?)

Work in progress of course. But between that and cutting out C, Q, and probably X, that leaves 18 consonants to use with various vowel combos for the (vowel)+(consonant) thing. Only vowel sounds so far are A, E, I, O, U (uh), and OO. (ish) And 8 x 6 is 108. Since I've got 17 consonants for (consonant)+(vowel), plus Ka and Ko, that's 102 words/word parts. 102 + 108 = 210 possible non-compound words. Add S to the ends of the vowel+consonant pairs, and that's another 108 words, for a total of 318 non-compound words. I mean... I guess Toki Pona only has like 137 words in total, but still...

And that's before any kind of testing to see if some words are too hard to say or sound too similar to another word.

I think my favorite comeback that I've ever heard anyone say was hyper-specific to the point that I doubt anyone could ever use it again. I don't even remember the setup apart from somebody was re-using a comeback someone else had used before, against the person who originally came up with it (call them Person B). So the punchline was that Person B said, "If I wanted my own comeback, I'd ask your mom." LOL

My second favorite was also hyper-specific. I think it was from a movie or something, because the sequence was like:

Person A: "I was with your mom last night at (street address)."
Person B: "Is... is that where she lives now?"
Person A: "You'd know if you were a better son."