Language Building · 1:53am Nov 18th, 2015
Hey everybody, I survived the Wasteland.
I still haven't actually finished Fallout 4 yet, far from it. But, as I predicted, I've finally played enough through that first week that I can safely redirect my attention back to other things. And one of the first things to get some attention was TTM, which of course is still a long ways off. But that doesn't mean I'm not doing ridiculous amounts of planning behind the scenes for it. Just yesterday, I spent about 4 hours talking with my prereaders about the basic structure of the entire first half of the story. A lot of great things were discussed, and one of them was a group of ponies that have essentially reverted into a tribal state of being with their own language (the reasoning will be ultimately explained in the relevant segment of TTM).
So naturally, what do I do when I'm bored but don't necessarily feel like writing or playing Fallout 4 (a shocker I'm sure)? Starting fooling around with the language!
There's no way that I'm going to make this a full language one day. Tolkien spent 63 years developing the 20 languages that are used in Lord of the Rings; ain't nobody got time for that. But when it comes up, I'll probably post a little document here or somewhere in the text of the story itself so you lot can all experience just what exactly goes on behind the scenes. Spoiler alert: it's a lot of core grammar and baseline structure to make everything work.
Here's a little sneak peak of what that might look like:
Now I should probably get back to schoolwork or something.
Until next time!
Ante Legionem nihil erat, et nihil erit post Legionem
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[language boner intensifies]
more plz
No, seriously, I want to see more of this. A lot.
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A U'a soe'sot etaw (We'll see in time)
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*yeee*
Remember true languages aren't logical and have exceptions to just about every rule! :V (I've tried to build languages before, they always come out terrible.)
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I don't plan on becoming Tolkien and modeling out all of the exceptions to all of the grammar rules. I'll just go about my thing and model them on a case by case basis. It's important to have the core concepts first and then do any detail work later. Besides, I doubt readers will care all that much on whether or not the language has grammatical exceptions; so long as it's thought out and used effectively, it'll work all the same.
Shaun is the main villain.