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.
it's basically 1960's Black Power getting rid of slave names, plus short man syndrome ("I'm never gonna curl up on your lap or fetch your slippers...BITCH"), plus insecurity, plus... leads to some weird places (neo-paganism c.f. Draka with their recently created rituals)
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phyle cold war (leading to maybe hot civil war?) recapitulates / critiques current culture war, plus red tribe vs gray tribe split, plus...
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but the point is: I am not starting with a desire for a conlang and working backwards to think about the motivation; I HAVE the motivation and am using a conlang to reify that motivation into things that can be seen (not merely talked about in the abstract) on the page
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Did the uplifting create a desire for history/heritage that they're unable to fulfill because they're only uplifted recently? "Where did I come from? Who was my family?" is a powerful question.
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yes, exactly! and the answer is "there IS no deep history; the act of uplifting created a fundamental break, so you either adopt human culture, you create an artificial (and unsatisfying?) fake culture, or you just take a century or two to let it evolve naturally"
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