[ SECRET POST #3813 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3813 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Daredevil TV]


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[Wonder Woman (2017)]


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[Isabel Maru, Wonder Woman]


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[Sense8]


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[Schitt's Creekt]


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[Re:Creators]












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Comments

Re: Obvious Author Favorites That You Ended Up Hating

[sarillia]

I don't usually base a language directly on a real one. I tend to think about features of the language, deciding on what phonemes exist in the language and toying with things like vowel harmony or a marked distinction between aspirated and unaspirated consonants, and then I play around with names that work with the features I've picked out.

But like you said, associations are inevitable (it's just what our brains do) and sometimes I look at the results and think people are almost certainly going to think of a particular language. I worry that people would expect other similarities in the culture and would find the rest of it to be sort of mismatched. Personally I wouldn't have that problem, and it sounds like you wouldn't either, but I've gotten some mixed messages. Which I guess is what I should always expect when I ask these kinds of questions.

Re: Obvious Author Favorites That You Ended Up Hating

[ketita]

At the end of day, there's not much you can do. Some people are always going to misread your work, or leap to assumptions, etc. To me, just using phonemes and such sounds perfectly legitimate. You can't control what expectations people might have; all you can do is try to demonstrate that it's not like that.
Some readers are just not discerning, what can you do.

In my case, I'm using the actual languages because I need them to be spoken... there are things like street signs, dialogue, graffiti, etc. which I would have to effectively make a Russian-based-conlang in order make work. Since my story has multiple cultures, I just honestly don't have enough time for that -_- it's enough that I've got a full Greek-based conlang!
So I'm kind of doing that thing where when the characters are speaking "English" the reader knows it's not literally English... so in this case, it's "translated" as French in our world, but not literally French or literally Russian.
Eh. I hope people get it.