Re: fictional worlds

Santiago sekalge:
>I'd like to know to what extent are the cultures behind your conlangs
absolutely fictional...

I absolutely will not put any technology from later than, oh, the
thirteenth century AD into Sturnan. I just won't. It wouldn't be in
Sturnan's character. However, Tallefkeul (I've changed to the Greek
alphabet, and it looks more like TahhE0uh now) has words for modern
technology such as radios and cars, and for rabbis, even, but no
computers. (I will not put computers into Tallefkeul. They aren't in her
character.)

I have no concultures behind my languages. I tried with Sturnan, and
Sturnan would not be constrained. Therefore, while three or four
concultures sprang up in Sturnan's wake, none could keep her.

>Should I do away with those terms, and try to create a whole culture
with their own objects and then name them with the lang?

What feels more comfortable to you?

You say, "I need advice," and I say, "Be more self-reliant." I could turn
it into a business. How depressing.

Laimes,
Wright.

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"Through not observing the thoughts of another a man is seldom unhappy,
but he who does not observe the movements of his own mind must of
necessity be unhappy."
--Marcus Aurelius

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