By the way, does anyone have a good deconstruction of elven resource or should I make a pet project of ripping into it?
I don't want to waste my time if a good one exists already. The wiki is a decent dictionary, but it lacks sentence construction and verb conjugation. The only resource I have found has not been updated since 2012.
I'm not saying I would excel at this, but I know a few languages and I loooooooove me some puzzles. Besides it would harken back to my old highschool days of teaching myself elvish ... oh dear god, did I just admit that.
Is just a cypher: one word for another word, no grammar and very little in the sense of languages. I asked dedalvs the guy who does the game of Thrones languages and the Defiance alien languages and he told me
As far as I can tell from the wiki page, it’s basically an English cipher, with, perhaps, someone over there figuring out word types (e.g. noun vs. verb vs. adjective). Using restaurants as an analogy, it looks like the rough equivalent of, say, a guy selling burritos out of the back of his car, maybe? You may like them (depending on where you get them, homemade burritos can be excellent), but it wouldn’t be appropriate to compare it to the fare at a five star restaurant—or even a two star food truck.
For those who don’t create languages, I know it seems like it’s really difficult to create a language, but it’s actually very simple to create a bad one. If you decide that word order will decide which is the subject and which the object, you can create word forms for every single word in English, and, bam! New language. E.g.:
frondel = dog
zesten = cat
an = the
drok = chase
-ut = -ed
An frondel drokut an zesten.
"The dog chased the cat."
You can probably create a computer program to generate a thousand of these an hour. You can get slightly more complicated and make up kooky definitions for word forms, like zlefik, “the emotion one feels upon realizing that one wasn’t paying attention when a stranger entered the room and made their initial salutations to those in attendance”, but it doesn’t make the language more interesting. It’s still basically a coded form of English.
So, to answer the question, the language is not one like mine or that a conlanger would make, but given the type of creation it is, it can probably generate a large vocabulary rather quickly, and can be used for translation. It won’t be worthy of note, but if one likes it, then one can certainly enjoy using it.
Retour en haut
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