From: johnjmedway (jjm@zycor.lgc.com)
Date: Mon 08 Nov 1993 - 19:59:16 EET
Loren, muchas gracias for the repost of the AOL discussions. Glad I don't
have access to that, though. I'd have no time left for the rest of my life!
>> From: paul@phyast.pitt.edu (Paul Reilly)
>> X-RQ-ID: 2191
>>
>> Darktongue is agglutinative, intuitive, and has many onomatopaeic words -
>> these latter can be based on the characteristic echo produced by an object
>> ...
>> Repetition indicates emphasis. Thus 'uzuz' - Mistress Race Troll, or
>> Hombombobom the Great Drummer. In our campaign 'ju' indicates mana and
Pretty close to what I'd thought up. Yours is a more extensive write-up though. I'd tried to describe it to players as sounding "like a mixture of Bushman, Humpback Whale, Korean and the bands Yello and Laibach".
Some of my examples to the players:
baam
be, is, are
bowng chigah
of me, mine no take
bowng-bowngk chiga-chigaah
of me and my allies, ours not take, no hurt, no eat
bowng-ga-bownk ung-ahhh
of them and not me, theirs hinder
nk
you ( sonar ping at "you", often omitted )
So you get:
nk ung-ahhh bowng
[Allies and posessions] of mine will not hinder you.
( Offer of cheerful, willing assistance. )
bowng-ga-chigaah
This is mine. You may take it.
( When presenting food or gifts. )
bowng-bowngk, chiga-chigaah
This is of me and of my allies. Do not take/hurt/eat it.
( Please be so kind as to ... ARGH! stomp! pound-pound-pound * )
* at this point the mindlink with the Lhankor Mhy researcher abruptly
terminated.
Of course, most of the more subtle expressions of Darktongue are too low in pitch and cannot be made or understood by humans.
>> New Pelorian - in our campaign there is both an alphabet and a syllabary of
>> about 600 important syllables (plus many little-used characters). THe
>> written language looks a bit like Hindi. (We use many Indian models for the
>> central Theistic zone of Genertela.) The alphabet is considered easy to
>> learn but inelegant and the upper classes communicate in beatifully
>> calligraphed letters using the more compact syllabic script. Provincials
>> often learn only the alphabet. The script is cursive (as 'Gray' speculates..)
Is the alphabetic script, or the syllabic script cursive? Is it Dara Happan which uses the old script, or New Peolrian?
>> From: 100270.337@CompuServe.COM (Nick Brooke)
>> X-RQ-ID: 2192
>>
>> think British = Civilized, run him as British. In the great Hollywood
>> tradition of Evil Empires, I've always assumed those Lunar officers were
>> played by British character actors. Ethilrist looks (and acts?) like Alan
Of course!
And the common pelorians and soldiers speak with a cockney accent, too.
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