I'm looking for a cool and obscure language (obscure enough for the Exotic Language skill, so without a muse translation tool) for my character to share with his friendly (though somewhat adversarial) Swarm Cat.
I've ruled out Ancient Egyptian (not obscure enough), Sumerian (doesn't sound cool) and can't think of a good one offhand.
Any ideas?
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Exotic Languages
Thu, 2012-10-18 02:50
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Fion Ravenwater
Exotic Languages
Thu, 2012-10-18 11:51
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Nebelwerfer41
Sumerian is the coolest! It
Sumerian is the coolest! It was cool enough for Gozer...
On a more serious note, check the Wikipedia list of extinct languages. There are a lot of them. Any aboriginal language should work, as they are quickly disappearing and most would be extinct after the fall.
Thu, 2012-10-18 12:21
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Fion Ravenwater
Sumerian is cool, but the
Sumerian is cool, but the only digitoneurolinguistic hacking in EP is Basilisk hacks, which kinda ruins half the point of the language.
Thu, 2012-10-18 14:25
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The Doctor
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What about synthetic languages? As clades progress in Eclipse Phase, chances are at least some of them are going to develop their own spoken and written languages. There is an excellent to start from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages
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Thu, 2012-10-18 16:18
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uwtartarus
How relevant are languages
How relevant are languages when muses can automatically translate them? I never quite grokked that part of EP.
On topic: there is an India based dying language called Sora that has a word for "I am going to stab you in the belly with a knife." Amusingly specific. Also twins develop their own private language, maybe something related?
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Thu, 2012-10-18 18:34
#6
LatwPIAT
Exotic Languages
While muses [i]can[/i], that doesn't mean they always may. They're just translators. Many of them have limited translation skills (the default Muse has your native language and up to three more), meaning that knowing languages beyond your native tongue allows you to speak to people whose muse doesn't speak your native tongue. We do, after all, have translators today, yet there are still languages.
Synthmorph Sally speaks English, and her Muse also knows Hindi, Urdu and Arabic. She's on vacation to Saturn, where she meets a person who speaks Swedish natively, and whose morph knows Finnish, Russian and Cantonese. What to do?
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Thu, 2012-10-18 18:54
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Fion Ravenwater
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That's stated as one of the things a muse can do for you. In our GM's personal take, a muse can download one of these translators for pretty much any language on the fly, so what I need is a language that's obscure enough that nobody has written a translator for it.
I also like the idea of a custom language for the two of them. Maybe something like the Glossia allegorical cipher from [I]Eisenhorn[/I].
Thu, 2012-11-01 19:51
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jackgraham
Martha's Vineyard Sign
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard_Sign_Language
It was narrowly edged out by Warlpiri when I was deciding which form of sign to have Jake and Bobdog use in [i]El Destino Verde[/i]. There were some European monastic sign languages, too, used by monks who'd taken vows of silence (Trappists, I think), but those languages were less complete and didn't survive to modern times.
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