Re: Dune Conlang
| From: | Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 11, 1999, 9:02 |
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Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>
> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > "Dr. David E. Bell" wrote:
> > > Proto-Galach: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
> > > Atreidean Galach: baridit nehiidit beed gwarp tau nubukt.
> > > Ancient Arabic: kuntu sa'idan fi shababi
> > > Atreidean Fremen: kuntu saghidan fi shababi
> >
> > Hmm, Fremen appears to be far more conservative than Galach, the only
> > difference in this is {gh} instead of {'}.
>
> So much so that I find it almost impossible to believe
> that the Fremen speak that way. I mean, what's the year
> then? Isn't it something like the year 10,000?
>
Even after if I remember correctly. Something like 10700 or so.
> Unless, of course, Fremen is no more a spoken language
> than, say, Latin is today. Which might be believable, if
> only just: they might just hang on to a sacred language,
> especially on a planet like Arakhis.
>
That could be possible, but then the Fremen would have an everyday
language, maybe a less conservative version of this "Ancient Fremen",
because I can't see any people, especially a nomadic and scattered
people like the Fremen, keeping on a whole planet a language as it was
8000 years ago. Unless they went back to the Ancient language not long
ago, maybe as a conscious effort to unite all the Fremen tribes (I'm
just guessing, I haven't read this book for more than 7 years).
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