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(Sorry for the delays in the next part ofĀ Darkness Within, folks ā having some trouble getting it to gel in my head.) The Unpronounceable: Quite a few, due to all those species that donāt use spoken language the way we understand it: as mentioned previously, esseli names are DNS
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(Note: a planet of the day is still coming, albeit notĀ technically today. Just been movieing.) Third-Person Person: There are a number of languages and cultures in the Associated Worlds that do this.Ā One notable example is the use of first-third person in Eldraeic, because it lets you cite your
linguistics
More questions from over on G+: How do the words āinsurrectionā and ārebellionā translate from Imperial to Earthian? Here they have a few too many overtones of āYou should be happy that my boot is embracing eternity with your faceā, something tells me that those connotations would not exist there.
linguistics
Also important to recall in choosing the precise description of an entity is that Eldraeic enforces a strict conceptual division between objectives, defined as descriptions of properties inherent to a subject itself, and subjectives, defined as descriptions of properties inherent to a predication, and therefore dependent upon the observing as
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Punctuation Shaker: Averted.Ā Those punctuation marks have meaning in the Constructed Language.Ā Specifically, the acute indicates a long vowel, and the umlaut-that-is-really-a-dieresis indicates that a vowel is to be pronounced separately from the previous one, rather than as a diphthong.Ā Any wandering apostrophes you may see exist because Iām
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Of The People: Possibly averted.Ā While the species name eldrae (which means nothing, except etymologically) is derived from the proto-Old-Empires el daratha, āthe Peopleā, that was not a tribe term, but rather a species term, in opposition to everything else, literally meaning āthe thinking onesā.Ā Compare, for example, modern el
culture
ā¦ referring to any of the Empireās citizen-shareholders, is valmirĆƤn in the original Eldraeic; curiously, it is not cognate at all to that nationās formal name. From its roots, it could have the meaning either of āordered selfā or of āself that sets in orderā. When asked if one
eldraeic language
sarvanattar: I was in the middle of a Stargate SG-1 marathon when I decided I needed a particle for SĆntĆ”ri that makes an imperative more urgent. It would work in the same way that English, Latin, and Greek all useĀ go!,Ā ite!, orĀ į¼“ĪøĪ¹!Ā plus another command. The particle is
eldraeic language
fyeahconlangs: Wahawafe is the name of my multilingual translation project. It was begun on 18 June 2011. The website was launched on 9 July 2011. āWahawafeā is an acronym of āWe are humans and we are from Earth.ā. The aim of this project is to collect translations of this sentence
eldraeic language
(As promised to the anonymous poster of the earlier ask, hereās a quick worldbuilding post reprint on the nature of the Eldraeic possessive and memetic imperialism.). The Eldraeic possessive also goes into more detail than the possession functionality of many known languages.Ā Specifically, there are three types of possession
eldraeic language
(Seeing as Iāve been getting a lot of enjoyment out ofĀ fyeahconlangsĀ recently, hereās a little piece I wrote some time ago, back in ā09, about how imperatives work in Eldraeic, for the conlangophiles among my readership.) The Eldraeic language possess two forms of the imperative mood, expressing
eldraeic language
So, over in the worldbuilding department, thinking about the Chant of Light fromĀ Dragon AgeĀ has inspired me to do some polishing of the holy books that exist in my universe, and specifically some of the more commandment-y parts. And then, in thinking about them, I not only came up