so I'm researching conlangs (constructed languages) because in books 3 and 4 orange-phyle Dogs are going to go the Zionist route of cultural recreation / construction. Dogs will need to spell their new language, using unicode, bc "roman chariot -> shuttle SRB" phenomena.
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2/ Thorn, Yogh, Ash, etc. are obvious candidates, but thinking further afield. Perhaps a few Cyrllic letters too?
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3/ The trick is that the orange phyle wants to "escape human culture"...but that puts them in a bind. Either they are influenced by it by trying to avoid it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaccompanied_Sonata … chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://www.sindark.com/LaTeX/unaccompanied-sonata.pdf …
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4/ ...or they end up just picking and choosing OTHER PARTS of human culture. "We're not like you!" they say, as they ransack Viking, Roman, and Russian history...
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5/ exactly! they have a very legitimate reason / desire to want to form their own culture ... but to do it consciously and intentionally makes it necessarily inauthentic. There's a coded Chestertonian / tradcath message here...https://twitter.com/Nitetrain_1/status/1085563162777272322 …
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6/ also, the blue-phyle dogs and the orange-phyle dogs are at odds, and are approaching cultural formation and social organization in distinct ways. Father Alex is welcome in blue phyle, but not orange phyle, FWIW ...
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