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Is this Linguistics?
Sep. 12th, 2009 03:51 pmI've been... sorta working on Stormballad. I think I know how the beginning is going. And I changed something! Change is good, yes? I think the humans and wilashar must know of each other's exsistance BEFORE the events in Stormballad. I mean, yes, the wilashar knew what the humans were, but originally hadn't seen any for a few hundred years... while humans didn't know what the wilashar were. Yet, they had to speak different dialects of the same language because I wasn't about to spend time having Pendray learn the human language and Vashney learn Wilashari.
Solution? Obviously, the humans and wilashar must have maintained some sort of contact with each other. Now, I did go and look (just now, mind you), and learned that some languages (like English) have changed very quickly, while some (like Japanese) have hardly changed over the years (read 1000).
Well, okay. I could argue that modern Wilashari is like Japanese, and has hardly changed since the Old Camroda and the Vindran human equivalent of Latin merged to make one language shared by humans and wilashar. But the haman language would have suffered much more exposure to other languages, while Wilashari would not. So the human language would still be different...
Hmm. Does anyone know how much Latin changed through the Middle Ages, when it fell out of common use but was the language of learning, and therefore something Princess Vashney would know? *goes and looks*
SO, Classical Latin didn't change that much (thank you wikipedia). Wilashari wouldn't change much because of it's isolation from other linguistic influences except Old S'soran and Ancient Camroda. Those would influence it to make it something akin to British English. The human equivalent would not change drastically because it IS the language of learning and therefore kept mostly uniform. So we would get a dialect of a sort of French English from Vashney.
... Which means this may have been totaly unecessary. O_o What to do, what to do... I guess either way will work, so long as I justify it somehow.
I also know the wilashar will turn sorta steampunkish farther down the timeline. It will fit them. Tamahl has already made a request for reincarnation.
Also, Pandora Radio is cool.
Also also, I think I have tendonitis in my wrist. :(
Solution? Obviously, the humans and wilashar must have maintained some sort of contact with each other. Now, I did go and look (just now, mind you), and learned that some languages (like English) have changed very quickly, while some (like Japanese) have hardly changed over the years (read 1000).
Well, okay. I could argue that modern Wilashari is like Japanese, and has hardly changed since the Old Camroda and the Vindran human equivalent of Latin merged to make one language shared by humans and wilashar. But the haman language would have suffered much more exposure to other languages, while Wilashari would not. So the human language would still be different...
Hmm. Does anyone know how much Latin changed through the Middle Ages, when it fell out of common use but was the language of learning, and therefore something Princess Vashney would know? *goes and looks*
SO, Classical Latin didn't change that much (thank you wikipedia). Wilashari wouldn't change much because of it's isolation from other linguistic influences except Old S'soran and Ancient Camroda. Those would influence it to make it something akin to British English. The human equivalent would not change drastically because it IS the language of learning and therefore kept mostly uniform. So we would get a dialect of a sort of French English from Vashney.
... Which means this may have been totaly unecessary. O_o What to do, what to do... I guess either way will work, so long as I justify it somehow.
I also know the wilashar will turn sorta steampunkish farther down the timeline. It will fit them. Tamahl has already made a request for reincarnation.
Also, Pandora Radio is cool.
Also also, I think I have tendonitis in my wrist. :(
