how does my invention "draces" strike you?
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It suffers from the C-Before-E In English problem; looks like it should rhyme with 'traces'.
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yeah, you'd have to spell the final term drakestrian if you wanted to communicate pronunciation to an English speaker
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Replying to @chaosprime @fadeaccompli and
that's fairly badass though so i'm down
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That.... that doesn't look bad, actually.
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yeah, the spelling divergence gives that tingly worldbuilding feeling of having traced out some linguistic drift
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I feel a K implies it's coming from Greek rather than Latin, but I'm biased by a prof with opinions.
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i mean, it's coming from Greek either way if you kick it hard enough
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I'm bringing
@CarrieCuinn over to this part of my query. She's suggested "dracoviatrian" because of the flight aspect of dragons.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @MaryRobinette @chaosprime and
I mentioned this elsewehere but I think (and this is from high school) that it wouldn't be dracestrian because draco lacks the s of equus.
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i can see it but what i went the other way based on is the idea that the -es in eques is actually all added, irrespective of the s in equus
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Replying to @chaosprime @CarrieCuinn and
(I love conversations like these SO much)
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Replying to @MaryRobinette @chaosprime and
Maybe starting w/ "rider of dragons," follower of the "way of dragons," etc. then washing the phrase through a few linguistic shifts?
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