Re: OT: Quick Intro
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 20, 2003, 21:37 |
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John wrote:
>For my own part, I can only say that I am adhering to this pattern because
>the stories will be dealing with multiple races of Humans, but at the
>moment
>only one race of Aubrekka, Aewylin, and e'Gratën will be encountered.
>Now,
>if I do some other tales in a different time or location, or if the current
>storyline encounters other races of these various species, then I will
>introduce other languages, probably based on the earlier created languages.
What I'm speaking about is not having only created one language for a
particular species (which I'm myself guilty of in at least two of my
constructed worlds), but asuming that all members of a non-human race
necessarily speak the same language.
Andreas
[snip]
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:06 PM
>Subject: Re: Quick Intro
>
>
> > He actually had a few more Elvish languages, like Telerin and Silvan
>Elvish.
> > But I suspect that the Lord of the Rings, with it's plentiful references
>to
> > Elvish speech and Dwarvish inscriptions, has, thru' not too attentive
> > readers, helped establish the pattern in many Fantasy worlds of each
> > non-human race having just one language. I've, in RPGs, seen rather
>amusing
> > examples of this, where Dwarfs speak Dwarf, Minotaurs speak Minotaur and
> > Halflings speak Halfling, while the humans, in addition to being the
>only
> > race that doesn't get a capital letter, for some reason don't speak
>Human.
> > And they _never_ bother to explain this irregular state of affairs.
> >
> > Andreas
> >
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