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I apologize if I'm not making much sense, very much in the beginning of my
studies.

I'd like to modify the phrase "cogito ergo sum" into one that means 'I write,
therefore I am'.

What I came up with is **我作る, ゆえに我あり**.

I figured that **作る** would be a good choice to convey something more than the
act of writing, and indicate it's a creation/creative act.

The part of **ゆえに我あり** I took from the Japanese [Wikipedia
page](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%91%E6%80%9D%E3%81%86%E3%80%81%E3%82%86%E3%81%88%E3%81%AB%E6%88%91%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A)
for the phrase.

Can I have some reviews, and perhaps some pointers if I'm doing something
wrong? The more details you can give me, the more I'm able to learn from this
exercise.

Thank you!
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I'm trying to modify "cogito ergo sum" into "I write, therefore I am" - am I doing it right?
You're replacing a verb with a verb, so there's not much that could have gone
wrong. In other words, your construction is fine.

You said you wanted to end up with "I write, therefore I am" and then chose a
verb that doesn't mean "to write", so obviously 我作る、ゆえに我あり doesn't mean "I
write, therefore I am", but something more along the lines of "I make,
therefore I am".

You're asking for pointers, so one should point out that just about everything
in this phrase is different from standard Japanese that you would be learning
in a textbook or basic course.

  * 我 is an archaic way of saying "I"
  * particles have been omitted
  * ゆえに is a comparatively rare conjunction for indicating causality (and may thus be considered "advanced" vocabulary)  
In BCCWJ (Japanese corpus), ので 453599 results, ゆえに 2161, 故に 2634

  * sentences usually don't end in あり, but rather in ある or あります
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