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TheKillerBs replied to the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"?.It's probably going to happen (there are 7000 languages in the world) and it's not going to matter. It'll be at worst a curiosity to the... -
TheKillerBs replied to the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"?.That's going to happen regardless and it's not that big a deal. Take, for example, Bleach. One of the factions in Bleach, the Hollows...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.One thing I learned while going on this rabbit hole though is that the Normans for some reason didn't record the Norse name and instead...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.Well, I see the point of disagreement at least. I look at just the root. The Roman name, Colonia Eboracum means "colony of ebur" with...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.What? You got Eboracum in Latin and Eburakon in Brythonic, with the cum/kon being grammatical hanky-panky. The stem "ebora/ebura" got...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.We have the uninterrupted line in those though. There is a clear break between Eofer and Jor. Proto-West Germanic *ebur- is presumed to...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.IDK, Jorvik seems different enough from the Old English (Eoferwic, which is almost certainly linked to Eboracum, which is definitely...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.Yeah, the word York is definitely of Viking origin
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.I wouldn't consider penny and halfpenny derivatives of Old Norse, considering the German Pfennig and the Dutch penning
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.It's about the prestige of the Roman Empire really, probably with a little bit of the importance of the Roman Catholic Church in the...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.It was definitely spoken before this, though we mightn't call it English. The language of the Anglo-Saxons would've been much closer to...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.This is an arbitrary cut-off date. The 5th century is when the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, speaking the same language as the precursors...
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TheKillerBs replied to the thread Communication and Languages in Fantasy.Fun fact, the word Koine means "common" so any time I hear people speaking Common I imagine them speaking Hellenistic-era Ancient Greek
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TheKillerBs reacted to pmmg's post in the thread Articles are back: Worldbuilding the Concept of Wisdom with
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The pinnacle of wisdom is in realizing that peace only comes through disabling comments. Wisely played sir.