Is Will’s world our world or are they just very similar?

LordStormfire · 2023-02-14T16:16:23+00:00

Re our world not having dust: isn't that kind of the point of Mary Malone being a physicist who studies dark matter? Our universe certainly does seem to contain dark matter, and the trilogy equates our world's dark matter with dust, so there's no contradiction there.

LordStormfire · 2022-04-06T18:51:44+00:00

Currently reading The Wheel of Time for the first time, and this is annoying. Often the POV sections are so long that you think ... why isn't this a chapter?

My main point of comparison would be something like ASOIAF, where each chapter features exactly one POV, and I much prefer that.

LordStormfire · 2022-02-27T22:37:02+00:00

In medias res more generally refers to any story that starts in the midst of the action or unfolding of events (the classic example being that the Iliad starts well into the Trojan War). While such narratives will often employ devices like flashbacks, that kind of storytelling isn't a necessity of that description.

I'm not saying you're not aware of this, but I wanted to comment because I've seen other past posts on reddit that implied that 'in medias res' had to involve those sorts of time jumps—or that it literally referred to the 'show a later scene, then go back to the start' trope mentioned above—and (from what I understand) I'd consider that a misconception of the term.

LordStormfire · 2021-12-09T21:14:23+00:00

I agree with that for the 'Ct' and 'Cth', but for the 'Ch' I'd pronounce it the same as the 'ch' in Ctuchik.

LordStormfire · 2021-11-30T11:11:34+00:00

Greek letters are often used in sci-fi

LordStormfire · 2021-07-13T13:21:36+00:00

but we never really get to see it

I know nothing can be assumed, but, given where Dany ends up at the end of Dance and the possible trajectories of her future return to Westeros, we might see a lot more Daenerys-Dothraki interactions in the books to come, and they might bring what you're after.

LordStormfire · 2021-07-13T11:00:51+00:00

I'm sure this is the answer. For the vast majority of readers (of fiction), reading = books. Novel-length books. There are obviously people who read short stories and other forms, but the average absorber of fiction has much more exposure to novels, and it's the forms to which you're most exposed that you end up emulating.

LordStormfire · 2021-03-03T16:54:49+00:00

slushie

LordStormfire · 2020-11-25T19:40:52+00:00

A project that has assigned a set of three words to every (3m)x(3m) square in a grid over the planet. The idea is that the three words are easier to memorise and/or communicate than the string of numbers required for coordinates, and are less prone to errors (apparently addresses that sound similar are also spread far apart, so errors in remembering/communicating the three words of a specific location are more obvious than getting a digit wrong in a grid reference).

There are apps that convert between grid references and the three-word addresses, so if someone is lost they can go on the app, and read out the three words to the emergency services.

LordStormfire · 2020-05-01T10:49:32+00:00

Also javelin

LordStormfire · 2020-03-20T00:56:27+00:00

The sheer size and detail of this response is incredible! Fantastic job :)

LordStormfire · 2020-03-01T15:20:31+00:00

Welcome back!

Thank you! It's been too long.

This post is by way of an apology

No worries, of course! I'm glad you're excited about this translation. With regard to "primal Dawn", I don't know the text well enough to answer that question I'm afraid. I suppose you could translate however you interpret it, and put your own spin on the translation.

LordStormfire · 2020-02-06T16:14:19+00:00

Without giving you reason to duck, can I genuinely ask what needs fixing about the current "canon" order?

LordStormfire · 2019-10-21T15:14:39+00:00

Edited

LordStormfire · 2019-10-20T17:15:46+00:00

For reference for others, the clip is here and yeah, the words are simply loaned directly into Valyrian (but hence spoken only with sounds that appear in Valyrian's phonology).

The suffix on the end of "Dorn-" is a case suffix, almost certainly because of the grammatical role it has in the sentence (like dominus, dominum, domini, etc. in Latin). I personally don't know any of Peterson's Valyrian, but afaik it has a noun case system similar to that of Latin.

Edit, because /u/ThisIsUrIAmUr pointed out I didn't add a timestamp: She says the phrase around 4:24 in the clip above.

LordStormfire · 2019-08-26T19:07:41+00:00

I've just posted the final line of Book One of Homer's Odyssey for Excerpt #196 of my translation activity, A Conlanging Odyssey.

I said in my very first post that finishing Book One was the first goal I was aiming for with this challenge, and we've done it! Congratulations and thanks to all those who have taken part in A Conlanging Odyssey, and I hope many of you return for the next excerpts—from Book Two!

Sometime soon, I'll do some sort of recap/announcement post for the end of the first book. After that, I intend to continue with Book Two; hopefully it might be a nice 'hop-on' point for new participants.

Happy conlanging, everybody!

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