do any of my followers play around with "conlangs" (constructed languages) ? I'm starting on books 3 and 4 and one faction of uplifted Dogs are starting to play with creating their own culture...and language. Any help would be appreciated (and would be noted in the book!).
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Replying to @MorlockP
could use an existing one, have dogs "revive" it, say it sputtered out or never caught on.
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Replying to @MorlockP
existing conlang, like lojban or something toki pono is dead simple apparently but not suitable for complex talk or tech
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Replying to @hradzka
Good thoughts, but for plot reasons it has to be entirely de novo - one faction of Dogs wants a new culture not rooted in human culture.
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Replying to @BrowningMachine @hradzka
it's needed mostly for names you remember Max, the more war-like Dog? There has been a factional split between two tribes of Dogs, Max wants his own culture. And he'd obviously name his offspring in conlang, not English No dialogue in book will be conlang.
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So let me get this straight. You don't want a language that you invented for the Dogs to use (like Klingon). You want a language that the DOGS invented to use for THEMSELVES. This is a much easier, and much more interesting, challenge.
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP and
Your inspirational model here is part Esperanto and part Modern Hebrew. Both were constructed / re-constructed for cultural and ideological purposes. So don't think "What would be a cool Dog language?" Think "How would MAX go about making a Dog language?"
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP and
So my next question is - how much about this language do /you/ as the author want to know? You may only need it for names, but you're also the kind of guy who calculates orbital mechanics for a throw-away reference.
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as one character says to another in the HBO series Rome: "you have touched it with a pin"
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nice
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