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I recently read that a favoured fantasy author of mine kept an 9000 word etymology file for their novels. This is making me rethink the...
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I thought that it could be an interesting part of my worldbuilding. But I can really see how it both can slow down the writing, and be a...
Apr 18, 2024
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When I was first starting to write things, I did start to make a Conlang, which I tried to piece together from root words. I had a small...
Apr 18, 2024
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I’m not a conlang guy – it take way too much hard work to do well. So I usually assume there is some form of “common” or that Babel fish...
Apr 17, 2024
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Depends on how obvious the meaning is from context.
Apr 17, 2024
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It hasn't really come up, but I prefer playing around with the font or quotation marks to indicate foreign languages. <I might write...
Apr 17, 2024
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So far when such a situation presented itself I've either had main characters who were able to understand the language and could...
Apr 17, 2024
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For those of you who use a fictitious language you've created as part of your worldbuilding, do you translate it in dialogues? For...
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