Re: OT: Quick Intro

John M. Dollan wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
[snip]
> > Race languages? Does that means you're planning to have one Elvish
>language,
> > one Trollish one, one
> > Little-bluey-grey-cynoids-with-an-obsession-for-malt-whiskey one (or
> > whatever races you're including)?
> >
> > Nothing "wrong" about that, of course, but, despite being common in RPG
> > worlds etc, a such situation is slightly odd; why are there multiple
>human
> > languages, but only one cynoid one? Explanations can, of course, be
>found -
> > the cynoids may be confined to a smaller geographical area than the
>humans,
> > say - but forgoing to make _the_ cynoid language in favour of making _a_
> > cynoid language frees one from having to provided them.
>
>Well, after a fashion.  But I've changed things a bit.
[snip description of races]
>Also, the various tales in the Leaves of Autumn will deal largely with the
>races of Men (collectively called the Enkidai) over very wide geographical
>distances.  If I run into other races of the Aubrekka, for instance, then I
>will use the one baseline language for them already created as a template
>for a second language.
So the Aubrekka speech you're working on is the language of a particular
Aubrekka group. That's what I meant by creating not _the_ but _a_ [insert
race] language.

> > I'm hoping they're not cynoid nor like malt whiskey ... :-)
>
>Well, they love to drink as much as any other race....
That's not an excuse for liking malt whiskey! :-)

> > I'm not sure exactly what you are asking _about_? Still, I hope you find
> > what I wrote above re "race" languages helpful, whether it causes you to
> > change anything or not.
>
>I think I left something out.  That's what I get for chasing kids while
>working at the computer!  Basically, I was wondering if it is okay to list
>out the names of the gods in "common", and then list out the same names in
>Aubrekka equivalent.  I have no idea about bandwidth limitations on this
>list, and certainly don't want to create unwanted traffic!
The list is restricted to a max of 100 messages per day. No-one's going to
be unhappy if you post a single post on that, no matter how long it is. So
bring your god list on! I'm curious as to whether the "common" names are
going to be interpretable ...

                                                   Andreas

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