Re: New language Noygwexaal

>On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:40:29 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
>wrote:
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>>(Why do the orcs use Latin characters, btw?)
Conculture reason:
When they're writing in man-letters (probably Latinate), this is how they
do it.
RL reason:
I wanted a slightly nonstandard romanised orthography.

As for their own script, it's written vertically, starting at top right
corner and proceeding in columns from right to left.

>>
>>> [2] modifiers, especially adjectives, are usually conjoined to the
>>> front of their head to create long compound words. The exception is
>>> in sentences like "the dragon is black".
>>
>>I like this!  How do you say:
>>
>>  'Green is beautiful.'
>>
>>Or may 'green' be used as a noun, too?  Would you have to say:
>>'Green-colour is beautiful'?
"Green" may be used as a noun.  Most words can stray from their specified
part-of-speech role, so something that's technically an adjective can be
used as a noun ("green is beautiful") or even as a verb ("the grass greens
again after the drought").

>>I have another question: what's orkish about this lang?  Is it your
>>definition that it's spoken by orcs?
>
>Exactly.  I'm thinking of following up with a really crunchy, guttural elf-
>language, possibly with clicks.  This is in the interests of "It seemed
>like a good idea at the time".
>
This, of course, is most of the raison d'etre of this lang.  I'm trying to
turn all of the fantasy language stereotypes around, so we have a fairly
fluid, "elvish" sounding goblin tongue, a guttural elf-language full of
clicks and stops, a highly aspirated, "breathy" dwarf-tongue, and so on.
Not sure what I'll do with the humans of that realm.  I'll see what seems
good later.

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