the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise – what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that
Tolkien had the time apparently
LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
But you know, techincally it works. For once, in a fantasy world, basically everyone is speaking their fantasy language and we read a translation in English or whatever language that book is written in/translated to. So, whatever they call that particular hairstyle, it’s simply translated as french braid to us. Same for all the other stuff – some people are friends, we call it platonic in translation, etc. and they have their own terms we just never know. And as for names, you know, there are names that are spelt and pronounced exactly the same in different languages, and those names have nothing to do with each other. So technically, yes, there can be a guy called Chris in a land without Christianity. The only things we cannot fully keep are basically holidays but that’s more world building than language, anyhow. Otherwise, it’s simply translation.
the fact that danny devito is probably rich and famous enough to never need to work on a TV show, and that the only reason he’s on iasip for 11 seasons is because he’s having so much fun doing it is what helps me get up in the morning.
Me- I don’t wanna go to class today. I feel out of it
*classes is cancelled *
Me- God???? Is that you???
Me: I️ don’t want to go to work today
Boss:
(Looks like God’s got both our backs today)
Bless this day ❤️❤️❤️
I swear this post is blessed or something because I said “I want a reason to go somewhere” while looking at this post and then pretty much just after, my mother asked me to go to the store to get some eggs since I used the last 2
I want a cottage with a stream behind it and a forest that goes for miles on and deer are seen peeking out from the branches. Tea is brewing and my garden’s flowers are blooming. I am at peace with the world and full of kindness.
tumblr really took autocorrect away when you type in the tags… they’re really out there thinking I can sit here and type everything perfectly? I even have to consciously add apostrophes?? who has that kind of time???
Penhales 