Someone wrote in [personal profile] skyrimkinkmeme 2012-07-22 02:25 pm (UTC)

A!A lapping up praise here (also MASSIVE TECHNICAL EXPLANATION)

Trust me, I know all about how damn hard that language is to write. I spent 30, count 'em THIRTY MINUTES Ctrl-Fing over and over on the UESP dragon language page, finding words and checking out tenses and possessives and all that grammar jazz. 30 minutes of no writing whatsoever, just trying to find words. There is no Dragon word for "question", did you know that? or "ask" or "query". There's no words for "I/mine" or "you/your" (there is a word for 'we'. It's 'Mu'). Apparently an 'i' is added at the end of a words to indicate a singular possessive (Speech/language = Tinvaak. YOUR speech = tinvaaki. MY Speech also = tinvaaki). 'u' is added to indicate plural possesive (our, their). 'aan' is added to indicate past tense (or rather, to indicate something has already happened, since the dragon language, being spoken by a race outside of time, has no proper tenses. Thus, 'aan' has been corrupted by me to mean past tense as well.) to indicate a plural, one duplicates the last letter and adds an 'e'. 'Joor' becomes 'joorre', 'Rot' becomes 'rotte'.


Good lord but I'm like a crabby ol' english teacher but for Dov-tinvaak instead.

Glad ya like it. Check back today or tommorow (2 days from now at latest) for an update.

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