[OOC] Academy of Drell, Part II

[Zhure]

Sorry for missing a day IC. The EN Boards crashed on me, or maybe my machine crashed, or whatever. So after a few frustrating minutes of dealing with that, I did some reading and went to bed.

In unrelated news: I mailed off my new setting proposal today.
Greg

 

[GnomeWorks]

Oops, I didn't realize that we were at 200 posts already...

No more posting, I guess, until Zhure comes around and makes a 'Part III' thread...

 

[Zhure]

New IC thread

http://test.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16064

Little action today. I planned on doing far more yesterday and today but a severe allergic reaction prompted me to spend far too much of my day getting poked and prodded in an emergency visit to the doctor.

My apologies in advance for the "mood swings" this steroid is supposed to cause as I heal up this week. LOL.

 

[Jeremy]

Re: The Tunnel is Shrinking Us!

I want some of whatever it is Arana is smoking.

 

[Zhure]

It's not totally implausible:

- transmutation magic near that tunnel.
- the "golem" dwarf is apparently far larger than it should be.

Application of Occam's Razor does make that a very plausible suspicion.


Greg

 

[perivas]

Please note that I have yet to voice any of my concerns in character.

 

[Lichtenhart]

Uh.. just a question to be sure.
His language looks like dwarven, but it isn't modern dwarven so we can't understand it, right?
Do Victor think he can try to write his language? Or is it too ancient to be understood even if written?

 

[Zhure]

Please note that I have yet to voice any of my concerns in character.

Noted. So far it looks like everyone's keeping separate what Arana thinks and what Arana's done.

Uh.. just a question to be sure.
His language looks like dwarven, but it isn't modern dwarven so we can't understand it, right?
Do Victor think he can try to write his language? Or is it too ancient to be understood even if written?

Yes. It sounds similar to modern dwarven but it isn't. A good example (and I'm no linguist, but speak a little of this and that) would be speaking classical Latin to a modern native Italian speaker. Some of the cognates and declensions will be very similar but the two would have a very difficult time exchanging complicated ideas.

In this case of modern Italian and classical Latin, the two are still written very similarly, so would be a good grounds for communication. (I took Latin in college and can read Italian fairly well, but can't understand a whit of spoken Italian without a lot of repetition and hand-waving and pointing.)

Whether this would be the case or not has to be tried out.

Another example would be modern kanji in Japan and Korea being very similar, as they are all based on Chinese writing. Since communist china has changed some of the basica symbols, oddly the written forms of Japanese and Korean forms of kanji are more similar than the Chinese forms.

So using this as an example, writing may be an even more difficult method of communication.

(Sorry for muddying the water, I guess my rambling response means you'll have to try and see, but it's not a bad idea.)


Greg

 

[Zhure]

addendum:

another example that occured to me was "hight."

If someone said, "I hight Billy," it's accepted but archaic English that means "I am called Billy." For those who don't study archaic English or those who aren't geeky gamers with odd hobbies wouldn't recognize the lingo.

Greg "waiting for more responses IC"

 

[Zhure]

Forgot to mention it, but I received word from novyet that his computer is down and it's hopefully a temporary problem, so we'll put Ellie in the background.

Greg