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Member Location: On one of my semi-prehistoric computers. By some stroke of luck, I might be on my new one...
Registered:: 20 August 2006
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All I know is "Dai Stiho!" anyone know more??
"Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow." --Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni, the white hole |
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New Member Registered:: 10 June 2006
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There's not a lot to work with, in terms of really building vocabulary or conjugating or grammar or anything. (Too bad, too; I'm a linguist and would get a real kick out of it. *g*) But if you type 'speech' into the Errantry Concordance, you'll get a list of some words and names.
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Member Location: On one of my semi-prehistoric computers. By some stroke of luck, I might be on my new one...
Registered:: 20 August 2006
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 cool! i'l try that"Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow." --Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni, the white hole |
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Member Location: SharkWater
Registered:: 01 March 2006
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Dai is Hello and good bye.
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Senior Member Location: Mystical Island castle
Registered:: 20 December 2005
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reallY? that sounds cool..i wish DD would create some of the language like a lot of authors do...but if it has stuff to do with math and symbols like it says in the book, i guess it would be hard to create...
dragons rule! what? everything else i might say would take longer then three lines.  |
New Member Location: japan/ireland
Registered:: 15 September 2006
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that would be auesome!!! It would be really cool to leard the speech, but, yeah, I bet it would be hard for her to create.
 to bad though...  |
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Senior Member Location: Mystical Island castle
Registered:: 20 December 2005
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Yeah...i know some people, like token do that...and you can learn languages in star treck, i think...Never had any urge to try it myself...I have enough trouble in french...i myself create a little bit of language for the books i'm writing, but most authors simply have an index with sayings and words that they used in the books, so they don't have to create an entire language...i mean, it's hard work, and mostly only done if they want to add either serious detail, or make more money with lessons and books...
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Member Registered:: 28 December 2005
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Do you mean Tolkein? Yeah, he was good at constructing his Elvin(/ish?) language. And actually, DD does include bits and pieces of the Speech in her books, you just have to look carefully. At the moment I can't recall a certain scene where she demonstrates that, but I know it's in there...somewhere. XD
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Senior Member Location: Mystical Island castle
Registered:: 20 December 2005
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I don't think so...i know she did it for the cat language, but i don't remember her actually showing us speech language one single time...Ever...she always uses english in italics or something...i could be wrong, though...and thanks for the correction in names, by the way...
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Member Location: Benden Weyr, Pern
Registered:: 08 January 2006
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Tolkein is, of course, the master of fantasy languages, but some more information about the Speech would be awesome, and I think DD could do it
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Senior on Duty Senior Member  Location: Dover, England
Registered:: 09 September 2003
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DD created part of the Dragon language for her Door series, and put up a webpage about how she used a computer program to help her with the Romulan language in her Rihannsu books (in the Star Trek universe).
When I was rereading the YW books to make up a timeline, I made some notes of what the books say about the Speech, including words like hrasht and sevarfrith. |
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Senior Member Location: Mystical Island castle
Registered:: 20 December 2005
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I'm certain she COULD...and she could always enlist help from a couple of mathmaticians and a linguist...but the question is...does she want too? i mean, i know we'd all love her to, but think of the time it would take....heck, think about how much it would delay us seeing her next book...
dragons rule! what? everything else i might say would take longer then three lines. |
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Senior Member Location: Mystical Island castle
Registered:: 20 December 2005
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alright...i have to admit, that makes a lot of sense, and i could see why she doesn't want too...i still think it would be cool, but she's right...no one could get it just right, and even if they could do it for themselves, it probably wouldn't sound right to everyone...and really, who wants people emailing them for translations day in and day out?
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Member Location: On one of my semi-prehistoric computers. By some stroke of luck, I might be on my new one...
Registered:: 20 August 2006
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What my friends and I do is combine "Dai stiho" and other speech words with the ainceint language from eragon.
"Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow." --Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni, the white hole |
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Senior Member Location: Mystical Island castle
Registered:: 20 December 2005
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From ERAGON? intersting...oh, and not to loose my reputation for going on and on about eragon, even if in practice i'm trying not to do it as much...ERAGON RULES! *goes to eragon forum* no wait...we call it fantasy books now...
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Member Location: On one of my semi-prehistoric computers. By some stroke of luck, I might be on my new one...
Registered:: 20 August 2006
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speaking of fantasy books, every time I receive a fantasy labeled book (Eragon, so you want to be a wizard, etc) i scrape off the fantasy label. (it also confuses my friends, cause a fellow wizard freak thought i actually had a wizards manual!)
 "Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow." --Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni, the white hole |
Member Registered:: 22 October 2006
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no and i've read all the books three time all I know is dai stiho gosh I should read them again
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Senior Member Location: Mystical Island castle
Registered:: 20 December 2005
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I once found something like a wizards manual...it was completely fake, but i checked it out of the library anyways...the first page of the proloug was "so you want to be a wizard" i just found that funny. dragons rule! what? everything else i might say would take longer then three lines. |
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New Member Location: Stone Mountain, GA
Registered:: 10 October 2006
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Did she mention grenfelzing? "Wizardry does not live in the unwilling heart..." |
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