I have no idea how we haven't met before. Maybe because there isn't any kind of meeting place/community/convention/thing for history and language geeks? We must stumble through alone... Oh, how tragic. #overdramatic distraught expression#
I've been enjoying the Old English too (even though the first time it got used in the show I thought it was Welsh), although I seem to fail at actually looking this stuff up so I just take it as it comes to me in fics. I blame a very long summer. In a way, going to uni on Monday may wake me up a bit. After all, I have fics to write.
Anyael, huh? Where's the name come from? And what're you calling the main three persons? (IIRC, there's I, You, He/She/It, We, You Plural, They. And maybe even the polite forms. Oh dear, it's all coming back.) And the four genders would be what?
I'm intrigued by how a language that's essentially gibberish (which would actually be pretty hard to do without any in-text links to other languages...) is a base language for learning later on. Or do you mean general learning, not just other languages? (Damn my nit-picking tendencies. Whyyy?) As for stealing from other languages, as I say, if it's good enough for Tolkien, it's good enough for the rest of us.
Hey, do not worry about the fanatical raving. I have done much in my time. (Some of it in comments to you, I believe.) I'm just sorry my post is all `oh yes, and what?`. I blame watching Merlin with my Dad, who has made it his quest to find at least one plot-hole every episode.
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I've been enjoying the Old English too (even though the first time it got used in the show I thought it was Welsh), although I seem to fail at actually looking this stuff up so I just take it as it comes to me in fics. I blame a very long summer. In a way, going to uni on Monday may wake me up a bit.
After all, I have fics to write.Anyael, huh? Where's the name come from? And what're you calling the main three persons? (IIRC, there's I, You, He/She/It, We, You Plural, They. And maybe even the polite forms. Oh dear, it's all coming back.) And the four genders would be what?
I'm intrigued by how a language that's essentially gibberish (which would actually be pretty hard to do without any in-text links to other languages...) is a base language for learning later on. Or do you mean general learning, not just other languages? (Damn my nit-picking tendencies. Whyyy?) As for stealing from other languages, as I say, if it's good enough for Tolkien, it's good enough for the rest of us.
Hey, do not worry about the fanatical raving. I have done much in my time. (Some of it in comments to you, I believe.) I'm just sorry my post is all `oh yes, and what?`. I blame watching Merlin with my Dad, who has made it his quest to find at least one plot-hole every episode.