I was meaning to ask about this this past Sunday but I woosed out and couldn't hear several people so I'll ask here and if I remember to might bring it up when we meet up.
I was wondering if any of you make up words, or have your own languages in your stories something like Tolkien did with the Elven language? I've long since had a few words I've made up since I first started writing this world back when I was 14-16 and getting into my vampire phase as another >insert sarcasim here< fun way to escape teen age angst. I have and usually I say it's the "vampire language" even though there is litterally no way to translate the words back to English and I find myself thinking of marketing and how people responded to Elven, not to say I'll have THAT sort of luck with my writing but... *shrugs* ya never know.
So the question, do you make up your own words, your own languages or am I the only goof that has done so??
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Nov 6, 2007 - 08 55
Nope, I've done it too! Mostly I find that it adds flavour to the writing... but too much can just slow the reader down. So generally I have a few key words here and there.
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Nov 6, 2007 - 09 18
I personally never have simply because I do not have the patience to be consistent. However, a fellow novelist of mine has made up a language that is very complex. She based it on another language (Lakota) and took grammar and sounds from it as a base and then created a language upon which Lakota would have been based. It is quite awesome.
You can, of course, never gauge people's reactions. Tolkien never had people's reactions in mind when he created Sindarin and Quenya, but he created them to keep the realism of the novels. On the other spectrum, the Klingon language evolved like it did because of fandom and now you can have Hamlet in Klingon, yay!
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Nov 6, 2007 - 10 31
Ya just made me think of Werid Al's White 'n Nerdy song!!!
My lovely spouse tends to remind me to bring my definition paper/pad with me, when he reads anything I write that has my "funny words" in them then tells me for the hundredth time which rpg authors has to put a definiton list in the back of the novel.
I'll just be happy if I finish this story and/or the one before it - worry about the definitions later...
*bounces off to get a couple hours of sleep in as hubby starts to rib me for staying up to write*
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