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Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:16 pm
by Lambda
Oooh, languages.
How powerful is this ability? Is the daeva's (acquired) fluency capped to the summoner's fluency?
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:25 pm
by jalapeno_dude
Also:
"Enjoy your new knowledge of obscure techical vocabulary in Támádh," Jarvis says dryly.
Googling produces no useful results for Támádh, even after stripping out accent marks. Am I missing something?
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:27 pm
by Alicorn
The language thing copies approximate fluency but not exact vocabulary.
Támádh is a Sunnyverse demon language of kappa's devising.
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:29 pm
by Kappa
The Sunshine demon Lazarus instance is one of the kind of demon that speaks it.
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:49 pm
by Tamien
Out of pure linguistic geekiness, do the
acute accents over the 'a's indicate a change in pitch, stress, length, or some other thing? Also, I am assuming the dh is pronounced as a
voiced dental fricative (/ð/; the sound th stands for in "them") - is that accurate?
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:15 pm
by Kappa
That is indeed accurate! Hang on, I've got a chart...
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á fAther, sOng
â whAt, trUck
ä cAt, lAdder, sAd
é sAY, nEIgh
ê lEt, sEt
í mEEk, frEE
î sIt, pIck
ó nO, gO
áì dIE, trY, fIre
äu nOW, lOUd
éì sAY, nEIgh (but with subtle differences from a bare 'é' - like plAYer rather than AIr)
êì No English equivalent; pronouncing like 'éì' is close enough
w Closest English equivalent in floWer, Wet; sOOn/dUE would be a mostly adequate substitute
ý dIE, trY, fIre (but with subtle differences from 'áì' - spoken shorter, draws out differently)
m triM, Mother
f staFF, Furniture
v Volume, aVerse
l Load, aLL
dh THem, anoTHer
th THin, cloTH
d Derelict, reD
t Ton, aTTracT
s thiS, Several
n Not, alteratioN
r waR, Real
hr As 'h' followed by 'r'; English does this in 'her' and nowhere else I know of
k luCK, Kill
h Hat, unHoly
Each of those letters or pairs-of-letters represents one symbol in the Támádh alphabet.
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:03 pm
by Tamien
While I am utterly squeeing out that you have a whole phonetic alphabet
chart, I run into the problem that your dialect clearly does vowels differently from mine, because the a in "father" and the o in "song" are different vowels when I say them. Do you know
IPA?
Would anyone be interested in a new thread in which to discuss conlangs? Because I will be totally happy to create that thread and continue this conversation there to avoid derailing this one.
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:07 pm
by Kappa
Totally go for a new thread XD
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:27 pm
by AndaisQ
A SANDBOX WITH ALICORN, KAPPA, AND AESTRIX SIMULTANEOUSLY
T ͠H̶ E̛ . C ̷I̢ ̀R͢ C͢ ̷L̡ ̷E͘ ͜ . I S . E ͘V͡ ͏E͏ N . M ̶O ̡R̨ ͝ E . C ̕O M P̧ ̶Ĺ E ͝ T ̢E̴
Re: Sandbox Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:28 pm
by Kappa
AndaisQ wrote:A SANDBOX WITH ALICORN, KAPPA, AND AESTRIX SIMULTANEOUSLY
T ͠H̶ E̛ . C ̷I̢ ̀R͢ C͢ ̷L̡ ̷E͘ ͜ . I S . E ͘V͡ ͏E͏ N . M ̶O ̡R̨ ͝ E . C ̕O M P̧ ̶Ĺ E ͝ T ̢E̴
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