Re: Obscenities

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:12:26PM -0400, Jeff Sheets wrote:
> In a message dated 8/29/00 14:10:45 PM Central Daylight Time,
> hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 01:28:52PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> >  [snip]
> >  > Do the Orcs have eructative phonemes (= belches)?
> >
> >  Hey, awesome idea! Maybe when I get to work on the language of Black
> >  Harbour (a parallel universe to the one my current conlang is in), I'll be
> >  sure to include some eructatives... :-)
[snip]
> Dang, I can actually burp voluntarily, but I had never thought of using the
> act as a phoneme!!!  It would fit the concept of "filthy" orcs, although in
> most of my con-cultures that include goblins and orcs, they are a tad more
> civilized than this...  :)  It would be difficult to control such phonemes,
> at least as a human.  Maybe such orcs would have better diaphram control...
> I wonder how many humans could even speak such a language.
[snip]

Well, the inhabitants of my Black Harbor con-universe are more or less
beastly, nasty creatures bent on death and destruction. The only reason
they even bother to communicate with each other at all (instead of killing
themselves off) and actually develop a language is so that together, they
can plan and effect more widespread and thorough destruction. So, their
language isn't necessarily pronunciable by humans :-)

I'll probably be focusing mostly on the written form of this conlang tho,
'cos the only reason I need it at all is because the protagonist (who is
from another con-universe) in the story will be visiting the Black Harbour
libraries and learning about where these monstrosities came from.


T