I have read the post Chimmy made a few days ago over and over again and I have yet to find anything that points to 'Meerunic' as being a language. All I see are symbols with meanings and sounds attached to them in various and haphazard ways, with no set of rules to pull them all together. There is no set writing style as "examples have been found written right to left, left to right, top to bottom and bottom to top" which then changes the meaning of the symbols.

To me this looks entirely underdeveloped and I'm very upset because I have a love of languages but this 'Meerunic' is not a language.

Why?

It needs grammar!

A language without grammar is just a collection of sounds and meanings that are untranslatable. No wonder the linguists are having problems! >->

It's like trying to make bread and leaving out the flour. There will be no structure and you will be left with only disappointment. Symbols and meanings and sounds do NOT make a language by themselves.

Even one of the oldest languages we know about has grammar - Egyptian. They have symbols much like Meerunic, but they follow a very common word order - VSO (or verb–subject–object) which allows linguists to easily translate their writings. [the equivalent to "the man opens the door", would be a sentence corresponding to "opens the man the door"]

Other symbol-based languages (Japanese, Chinese, and Korean - to name a few) have a very strong and complex grammar that allows others to understand what they are saying easily.

Just imagine if English didn't have grammar. We'd be out saying "Wash Fred I yesterday so tomorrow will it wash did my not with I car." instead of "I did not wash my car with Fred yesterday, so I will wash it tomorrow."

I fell in love with languages at a very young age, and by 12 I had started work on one of my very own. It took a single 7th grader 5 months to come up with an acceptable set of rules for the grammar in my language (as well as 300+ verbs). I'm sure if I had started this now, I would fly through my grammar creating within a month. Maybe it wouldn't even take me that long; who knows?

Maybe in the time before the next update we will see the makings of a LEGITIMATE language in progress. I, for one, would be overjoyed to see this!

TL;DR: I'm sad to see that so far it looks like Meerunic is underdeveloped and structureless, as it has no grammar. I'd like to see some hints at a set of rules for grammar being made. Otherwise trying to translate Meerunic will be nearly impossible. :C