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An anthropologist that hunts cryptids finds way, way more than she bargains for when she goes looking for a society of slime people.
A request by kokkim for Free First Friday. They were a little startled with the utter weirdness that resulted, but they cleared publication without changes, so. ]rubs head, yeah that's a weird idiomatic Esperanto. I'm a nutbar, lol.
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Posted by ThePornucopia 5 years ago Report
It's Esperanto.
Posted by Tahg 3 years ago Report
Ah, thanks for mentioning that as I was quite lost. The story is understandable without the translations, but knowing them gives that extra bit of meaning. Only had trouble with a few standalone words?:
Potenca: potent/powerful, but seems to be used here to refer to either Scivola's beads, or clothing?
Songema: not a word afaict, means sleep/sleeping here?
eniri: entrance, no clue what it means here, girl possibly?
Scivola: curiosity, no trouble with this one, but it's a cute name for a slime exploring away from sia home.
Posted by ThePornucopia 3 years ago Report
Google's translation tool has Esperanto as an option.
Posted by immortalsane 3 years ago Report
A lot of the issue you're having is that I used a known language, and then created slang within it.
Like, "cool" objectively means a state of reduced entropy that manifests as a lowered temperature relative to the surrounding materials, yeah?
But in daily use, it tends to mean that the item or person possesses a quality that is attractive, impressive, intriguing, unique, etc. In fact, to say something is "cool" is it's own term with a specific sort of sense attached to it.
Similarly, calling someone a bitch, or whatnot.
So the words have a definitive meaning, but they also have, in this sense, a related meaning/usage that makes sense contextually to the speakers, but may not make as much sense to a non-native speaker. Essentially, I've introduced transliteration errors by creating common usage terms.
Posted by eaterjolly 4 years ago Report
more esperanto plz?