Kommentarer til: Esolanean

Af: Arne Sostack

Arne Sostack — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:57:19 +0000

Well, there aren’t really any orcs in Esolan anyway, so it doesn’t matter much. Also, the list of valid letters isn’t complete, so horak might be a valid noun. Irregular, though, as they’d normally end in -r or -n.

Af: su_liam

su_liam — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:19:54 +0000

It looks like horak wouldn’t be a valid vowel in Esolanean. Oh well. Las works, though.

Af: su_liam

su_liam — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:37:16 +0000

Last Horaktaro could be The Sword, Master of the Orcs, literally. Not bad that.
I’m very interested in your language work. Seems fresh to this nincompoop, anyway.

By the way:(a)I found my password, so I’m logged in, (b)after many headaches and much pulling of hair I got dotnet3.5 installed, (b1)I have the latest version of WordBuilder up and running. Yay!

Af: Arne Sostack

Arne Sostack — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:29:06 +0000

Well, yeah… I actually pondered making Esolanean a language rich on metaphors just yesterday.

horaktor would be ‘Slave of the orcs’, though.

I think I need some kind of “turn noun into an adjective” rule. My first thought was to append -i or maybe -ni.

So ‘War of the orcs’ or ‘The orcish war’ would be ‘last horakti’, assuming suffixed adjectives.

Af: su_liam

su_liam — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:27:54 +0000

I don’t seem to have my password saved on windows.

I kind of like the idea of metaphorical structuring in language. Thus sint(The River) for magic and my example of last(The Sword). So if horak is the word for orc, could the Orc War be, “Last Horaktor,” (or “Last Horaktaro,” in Esolanean propaganda)?

Af: Arne Sostack

Arne Sostack — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:08:47 +0000

Yeah, the principle seems to work out pretty well, I think. With your example, you don’t even have to let “last” mean anything but “The Sword” – “lastor”, “Slave of the sword” for soldier (or maybe rather mercenary), and “lastaro”, “Master of the sword” could be used for a great hero, or as you said, a swordmaster.

Af: su_liam

su_liam — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:18:21 +0000

Say, “las,” for sword, “last,” for, “The Sword,” meaning… war(?), “lastor,” for soldier(“Slave of War”), and “lastaro,” for, warmaster. Or perhaps, “lasor,” for soldier(swordslave?), and “lasaro,” for swordmaster. I like lastor and lastaro, as well as lasaro, I’m not keen on lasor. Anyway…