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<blockquote data-quote="Sparky" data-source="post: 5049911" data-attributes="member: 13681">I like to make words and sprinkle them in anyway - and then get a kick out of when my players rename stuff (Toad suckers) because THAT is organic language development in action. And a good laugh for the table. &nbsp;---&nbsp;My real purpose for writing was to talk about Watership Down. I read it as a kid and LOVED the sprinkling of words. Through the course of the book, they eventually become second nature and deal with daily rabbit activities or experiences. From memory...&nbsp;hraka = make pellets, go #2embleer = stink (skunk)silflay = graze, browse, eat-rah = suffix denoting high standing&nbsp;The rabbits silflay above ground on various things. Clover is silflay-rah. Rabbits love the clover. The also make hraka above ground as well. &nbsp;So, the novel goes along, the words become transparent, natural feeling and then there's this big showdown and one of the protagonists says to an antagonist, &quot;Silflay hraka, embleer-rah!&quot;&nbsp;I loved it. I read that book freaking 25 years ago. And that has stuck with me all this time.&nbsp;All that to say - Chaoszero, you're not alone in your language dorkiness and the game is for you AND the players... but, um, they outnumber you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sparky, post: 5049911, member: 13681"] I like to make words and sprinkle them in anyway - and then get a kick out of when my players rename stuff (Toad suckers) because THAT is organic language development in action. And a good laugh for the table. --- My real purpose for writing was to talk about [I]Watership Down[/I]. I read it as a kid and LOVED the sprinkling of words. Through the course of the book, they eventually become second nature and deal with daily rabbit activities or experiences. From memory... hraka = make pellets, go #2 embleer = stink (skunk) silflay = graze, browse, eat -rah = suffix denoting high standing The rabbits silflay above ground on various things. Clover is silflay-rah. Rabbits love the clover. The also make hraka above ground as well. So, the novel goes along, the words become transparent, natural feeling and then there's this big showdown and one of the protagonists says to an antagonist, "Silflay hraka, embleer-rah!" I loved it. I read that book freaking 25 years ago. And that has stuck with me all this time. All that to say - Chaoszero, you're not alone in your language dorkiness and the game is for you AND the players... but, um, they outnumber you. [/QUOTE]

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