Arranged Marriage: Despite the plethora of old families, noble houses, and other outbreaks of hereditarianism, strongly averted in the Empire. Partly because at least these strong individualist-propertarians can understand each other well enough to grasp the ethical problems here (see Blue and Orange Morality), and partly because they definitely understand
“Valuematic Vending Technical Services. Could I have your name, service contract reference, and planet of installation, please?” “Certainly, I can answer a few general questions, yes.” “Yes, our system is designed to be programmable by the customer.” “The model 4400v nanofac is capable of assembling essentially any carbon compound, yes.
Arm Cannon: Mostly reserved for fighting cybershells and ISS agents. For day-to-day wear? Apart from the impracticability… déclassé, darling.
As was mentioned before, the use of degree quantifiers in Eldraeic in some cases makes unnecessary, or redundant, the use of antonyms. One example which was given, and in which there really aren’t directly cognate words in the language, are “full” and “empty”, expressed as: quor olmanár and ulquor
“Ladies and gentlemen, here to discuss the Ikarakakt Forknapping is ConSec Network Operations’ incident commander, Soléän Muetry-ith-Merete. Take us through what happened.” “Very well. This message – the original variant of this message – was injected onto the extranet at the Tanel open-service relay in the Cordai Gap. Ah – open-service relays are
Area 51: Imperial Security Executive Secure Storage & Containment Facility 23. If it existed. Which of course, it doesn’t. (And in any case, wouldn’t contain anything nearly as exciting as the things people think are contained there, even if it did.)
While WordPress.com have made it possible for us to participate in this event, tomorrow (the 18th), I regret to say that I won’t be joining those of y’all who choose to participate. For two reasons: One, as a rule, I abhor gesture politics, and especially the kind
Arbitrary Maximum Range: Well, hardly arbitrary. Very carefully programmed maximum range, in fact, since missiles are not jolly things to have ploughing on and on into space without a self-destruct mechanism, or more precisely, for acknowledgement-of-the-kinetic-kill-factor, a deceleration-before-exploding and/or deceleration-and-call-someone-for-pickup mechanism. And then there are the fluffships, giant self-propelled
“It should understand,” I spoke as if to the air, “that its cause will not be served by genuflection, or by prostration, or by obsequity, or by such other obeisance as it has been in the habit of demanding.” “We are defeated, broken,” the chained lanect hissed back. “The Stanturak
To expand a little on the degree quantifiers mentioned in the previous post, these are a set of words which permit the Eldraeic speaker to quantify the degree to which a particular predicate applies with reference to its subject argument. There are six of these in common use: ulquor nonexistent,
El val telalélharn quor olmanár elén alírvelv. No, I have no idea why I translated that. Just had a moment, I suppose. Word-by-word breakdown: el Simple descriptor; essentially an article. val “I”; or in this case “my”, because it follows the simple descriptor. telalélharn hovercraft – literally “wind-vehicle” from telalél (“wind”
From Merak Ikarakakt, greetings. My dear friend, having consulted with galactic rep networks and meta-networks, I believe you to be a sophont of the highest integrity and excellent reputation in the interstellar business community. I have the privilege therefore to request your assistance in a matter of the greatest confidentiality