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vcmwPfeh, I say. Perhaps the Lithin will be a nice Germanic invading tribe, and I can fill their fake vocabulary with nice Germanic stone-root words. Then I can use my 4 years of German to mangle language to a nicety.
There are no "Celts" here! bwahahaha. Just not-Romans, not-Greeks, not-Arabs, and some cat people.
The fractalness of history defeats me. No wonder fantasy novels are full of bizarrely monotonic countries. "Everyone from the boundaries of High Forest to the font of the Big Sea speaks the same dialect! For lo, though the printing press has not yet been invented, and the first dictionary of our language is still 300 years in the future, still have we from one side of this landen to the other all the same words and even spellings. And why? Because the Great Creator deemed it too complicated to write it otherwise. Besides, know you not that if we spoke in a manner various, you would be unable to instantly identify the foreigners from other countries and tell them apart from folks who were just from another county?"
Head. Meet desk. (Incidentally, I found a really fun part of the BBC site with an interactive timeline, obviously meant for children. It enchants me. They read stuff and there's little flash animations. Yay!)
I *swear*, next time I'm writing something set in the here-and-now.
There are no "Celts" here! bwahahaha. Just not-Romans, not-Greeks, not-Arabs, and some cat people.
The fractalness of history defeats me. No wonder fantasy novels are full of bizarrely monotonic countries. "Everyone from the boundaries of High Forest to the font of the Big Sea speaks the same dialect! For lo, though the printing press has not yet been invented, and the first dictionary of our language is still 300 years in the future, still have we from one side of this landen to the other all the same words and even spellings. And why? Because the Great Creator deemed it too complicated to write it otherwise. Besides, know you not that if we spoke in a manner various, you would be unable to instantly identify the foreigners from other countries and tell them apart from folks who were just from another county?"
Head. Meet desk. (Incidentally, I found a really fun part of the BBC site with an interactive timeline, obviously meant for children. It enchants me. They read stuff and there's little flash animations. Yay!)
I *swear*, next time I'm writing something set in the here-and-now.
