tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post8391462043573886592..comments2024-03-28T05:59:52.454-07:00Comments on TalkToYoUniverse: Thinking ahead to a Language Design WorkshopJuliette Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-20218862649823678832009-02-01T09:28:00.000-08:002009-02-01T09:28:00.000-08:00David,Thanks for your interest. I'd appreciate it...David,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your interest. I'd appreciate it if you could look through the questions I just posted and try to answer them for me.<BR/><BR/>Thanks!<BR/><BR/><BR/>JulietteJuliette Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-89626656607757958012009-01-31T21:39:00.000-08:002009-01-31T21:39:00.000-08:00Well, I'm interested.I'm looking at my marine spec...Well, I'm interested.<BR/><BR/>I'm looking at my marine species, the arcati. I don't need to work out their entire language, but what I do want for their language is this:<BR/><BR/>It should be spoken underwater, by a water-breathing species.<BR/><BR/>It should be possible for an air-breathing species to pronounce the verbal parts, provided they are willing to get nice and close to the surface of the water, and speak slowly, clearly and distinctly. <BR/><BR/>There is no Universal Translator, so misunderstandings can develop during the learning process(especially until the arcati realise that humans don't generate pheremones as important language inflections, as arcati do).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-65852304757207355332009-01-28T13:05:00.000-08:002009-01-28T13:05:00.000-08:00Catreona,Much in the same way as my last workshop,...Catreona,<BR/><BR/>Much in the same way as my last workshop, the point here is to work with what you need in your story rather than to require you to produce some kind of empirically valid language. I'm looking to improve the feel of what you're working with so that it seems more organic and more like natural language. I'm a little dubious about "defeats human attempts to speak it," but we can discuss that in more depth in the workshop. I'm currently thinking of taking between 5 and 10 participants, depending on the response.Juliette Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-77721046976453672562009-01-28T12:32:00.000-08:002009-01-28T12:32:00.000-08:00Thanks, Juliette.Hmmm... I have a feeling the indi...Thanks, Juliette.<BR/><BR/>Hmmm... I have a feeling the indigenous language ought to penitrate at least one project I'm thinking of using for this workshop pretty thoroughly. In both cases, one of which you've already seen excerpts from, we have Earth settlers on an already inhabited world. In one case, the native language, even to the level of personal names, pretty much defeats human attempts to speak it. One friend of mine I showed a draft to observed plaintively that she couldn't even pronounce the name of the species or that of the planet (the two are closely related. Yet, the settlers would per force use native names for native objects, flora, fauna etc which was unfamiliar to them...in both cases...<BR/><BR/>Well, I'm interested but still a touch dubious as to my ability to produce what you'll be looking for in this workshop.Catreonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15959115298646880631noreply@blogger.com