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TOPIC | Common Draconic [A Conlang Project]
This is so cool! I'm too tired to read much right now, but I'm definitely coming back to take a better look.
This is so cool! I'm too tired to read much right now, but I'm definitely coming back to take a better look.
Alex | Any pronouns
Wow, this is amazing! As someone who likes languages and hopes to create one eventually, it made me happy to see this here!
Wow, this is amazing! As someone who likes languages and hopes to create one eventually, it made me happy to see this here!
Man, I do think this is interesting, but there are some word constructions in the dictionary that are overly literal direct translations of English constructions? Some of them more so than others. I understand that this language is supposed to be easily usable by English speakers, but it throws me out to see things that look particularly unnatural copies of English. Especially if other constructions are totally unalike their English counterparts.
For example, the direct translation you've given for the word for "almighty" is just "all mighty" but like ... does that mean that there's a word "mighty" as well as a word "powerful"? That's fine if so, but it seems weird that they'd use the exact same construction as us. It's especially jarring in particularly idiomatic English examples, like "clueless"? That's a hard word to translate, but it's an idiom, so I don't know if it should have any direct translation. It needs to be taken back to its basic meaning of "no understanding" or "no knowledge" at least.
Also remember that English has absorbed bits of a lot of other languages over its history and has a lot of words that mean similar things but have different origins. I'd use "mighty" and powerful" as examples, but they both look pretty Germanic in origin to me so eh.
Also it doesn't help that some English words (or words in any language) mean two things. Like "backwards" can mean "towards the back" or "around the wrong way". It's worse when they're just homonyms, not one as an idiomatic reading of the other. Bank for example? A bank can mean a storage place (particularly for money), or the edge of a body of water, or turning in flight. These are three separate things, and only have the same name in English by chance.
Also, why are you changing the place names? There's no reason to do that, especially given that they're pretty poetic as-is. I mean, I don't see why "The Abiding Boneyard" can't have a translation to do with bones and staying there forever? And changing the gods' names too? It just seems odd.
I dunno, sorry for the blah-blah, I understand that your wordlist is a work in progress. These things just jumped out at me ages ago when I first read this thread, and I finally worked up the energy to point it out.
For example, the direct translation you've given for the word for "almighty" is just "all mighty" but like ... does that mean that there's a word "mighty" as well as a word "powerful"? That's fine if so, but it seems weird that they'd use the exact same construction as us. It's especially jarring in particularly idiomatic English examples, like "clueless"? That's a hard word to translate, but it's an idiom, so I don't know if it should have any direct translation. It needs to be taken back to its basic meaning of "no understanding" or "no knowledge" at least.
Also remember that English has absorbed bits of a lot of other languages over its history and has a lot of words that mean similar things but have different origins. I'd use "mighty" and powerful" as examples, but they both look pretty Germanic in origin to me so eh.
Also it doesn't help that some English words (or words in any language) mean two things. Like "backwards" can mean "towards the back" or "around the wrong way". It's worse when they're just homonyms, not one as an idiomatic reading of the other. Bank for example? A bank can mean a storage place (particularly for money), or the edge of a body of water, or turning in flight. These are three separate things, and only have the same name in English by chance.
Also, why are you changing the place names? There's no reason to do that, especially given that they're pretty poetic as-is. I mean, I don't see why "The Abiding Boneyard" can't have a translation to do with bones and staying there forever? And changing the gods' names too? It just seems odd.
I dunno, sorry for the blah-blah, I understand that your wordlist is a work in progress. These things just jumped out at me ages ago when I first read this thread, and I finally worked up the energy to point it out.
Man, I do think this is interesting, but there are some word constructions in the dictionary that are overly literal direct translations of English constructions? Some of them more so than others. I understand that this language is supposed to be easily usable by English speakers, but it throws me out to see things that look particularly unnatural copies of English. Especially if other constructions are totally unalike their English counterparts.
For example, the direct translation you've given for the word for "almighty" is just "all mighty" but like ... does that mean that there's a word "mighty" as well as a word "powerful"? That's fine if so, but it seems weird that they'd use the exact same construction as us. It's especially jarring in particularly idiomatic English examples, like "clueless"? That's a hard word to translate, but it's an idiom, so I don't know if it should have any direct translation. It needs to be taken back to its basic meaning of "no understanding" or "no knowledge" at least.
Also remember that English has absorbed bits of a lot of other languages over its history and has a lot of words that mean similar things but have different origins. I'd use "mighty" and powerful" as examples, but they both look pretty Germanic in origin to me so eh.
Also it doesn't help that some English words (or words in any language) mean two things. Like "backwards" can mean "towards the back" or "around the wrong way". It's worse when they're just homonyms, not one as an idiomatic reading of the other. Bank for example? A bank can mean a storage place (particularly for money), or the edge of a body of water, or turning in flight. These are three separate things, and only have the same name in English by chance.
Also, why are you changing the place names? There's no reason to do that, especially given that they're pretty poetic as-is. I mean, I don't see why "The Abiding Boneyard" can't have a translation to do with bones and staying there forever? And changing the gods' names too? It just seems odd.
I dunno, sorry for the blah-blah, I understand that your wordlist is a work in progress. These things just jumped out at me ages ago when I first read this thread, and I finally worked up the energy to point it out.
For example, the direct translation you've given for the word for "almighty" is just "all mighty" but like ... does that mean that there's a word "mighty" as well as a word "powerful"? That's fine if so, but it seems weird that they'd use the exact same construction as us. It's especially jarring in particularly idiomatic English examples, like "clueless"? That's a hard word to translate, but it's an idiom, so I don't know if it should have any direct translation. It needs to be taken back to its basic meaning of "no understanding" or "no knowledge" at least.
Also remember that English has absorbed bits of a lot of other languages over its history and has a lot of words that mean similar things but have different origins. I'd use "mighty" and powerful" as examples, but they both look pretty Germanic in origin to me so eh.
Also it doesn't help that some English words (or words in any language) mean two things. Like "backwards" can mean "towards the back" or "around the wrong way". It's worse when they're just homonyms, not one as an idiomatic reading of the other. Bank for example? A bank can mean a storage place (particularly for money), or the edge of a body of water, or turning in flight. These are three separate things, and only have the same name in English by chance.
Also, why are you changing the place names? There's no reason to do that, especially given that they're pretty poetic as-is. I mean, I don't see why "The Abiding Boneyard" can't have a translation to do with bones and staying there forever? And changing the gods' names too? It just seems odd.
I dunno, sorry for the blah-blah, I understand that your wordlist is a work in progress. These things just jumped out at me ages ago when I first read this thread, and I finally worked up the energy to point it out.
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This is amazing and wonderful and I can't wait to dig into it!
Thank you so much for all your work.
This is amazing and wonderful and I can't wait to dig into it!
Thank you so much for all your work.
Added myself to the pinglist; bookmarked this page.
This is amazing and wonderful and I can't wait to dig into it!
Thank you so much for all your work.
This is amazing and wonderful and I can't wait to dig into it!
Thank you so much for all your work.
Awww man. I've been getting into conlangs lately, and this is FABULOUS!
Awww man. I've been getting into conlangs lately, and this is FABULOUS!
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I was reading this...and I think that someone should find new users and help them learn the language for 1-3 weeks...as like a class or something
I was reading this...and I think that someone should find new users and help them learn the language for 1-3 weeks...as like a class or something
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