The Dailies. March 27, 2023

The Dailies. March 27, 2023

Did you work on your language today? Create any new rules of grammar or syntax? New progress on a script? New words in your lexicon?

On the other hand, do any excavating or reading or enjoying stuff you’ve already created? Do you have any favorites to share?

How did you conlang today?

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3 thoughts on “The Dailies. March 27, 2023

  1. So not intending to build out too much of their words but in the interest of getting a feeling for what to do with my parent words in Kofnea (I promise, that makes sense) for the Great City:

    1. dasi – n. father
    2. daska – n. grandfather
    3. afi – n. mother
    4. afka – n. grandmother
    5. hiri – n. cousin, said to a dragon one is on comfortable or equal footing with, or as a term of respect to a human adult
    6. hirka – n. cousin (respectfully), said to a dragon one is younger than or not on an equal footing with, or as a term of respect to one’s older human extended relative or cousin one was not directly raised with
    7. hirsi – n. young cousin, said to a young dragon who is on a lower footing, or as a term of condescension to a human younger than oneself, or as a term of affection for one’s younger human extended relative or cousin one was not directly raised with

     

    Honestly, kinship and acknowledged kinship in the Great City is complex, esp. when it involves dragon-human relations, which is something actively encouraged, in the hopes of preventing either race’s needs dominating that of the other’s.

    The terms for “cousin” come from qhiras and qhireras, which is what high ones (the gods) called dragons, as a sign of respect and acknowledgement that they could be treated as equals (even though dragons are not quite as powerful, etc. as high ones). Which is why in the Great City, where dragons and humans have an equal presence, cousin is considered a term of respect always to be used with dragons and being applied to humans with to a slightly different effect.

    Close familial relations use words for brother and sister, even when referring to non-immediate family members; therefore, “cousin” also has a distancing effect in practice.

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