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> psuedo-iron-age It's not, it's just phonetic transcription of modern urban English with some SMS-style typing errors thrown in. Really disappointed with the
by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> psuedo-iron-age
It's not, it's just phonetic transcription of modern urban English with some SMS-style typing errors thrown in.
Really disappointed with the crappy low-effort linguistics in that book.
- tomgp 8y agoCouldn't disagree more, many of the words are halfway between two other words or are deconstructions of existing words fragmenting and refracting their meaning though Ridley's understanding of the world. To give the most obvious example; Eusa is a confusion of St Eustace, the USA and Jesus with a rich web of meaning and myth springing from that conflation. The spelling speaks to how the transition from oral to written tradition can crystallise the meaning of myths, fixing their meaning.
- NikkiA 8y agoExcept iron age english looks like this: cwæð þæt se Ælmihtiga eorðan worhte, wlitebeorhtne wang, swa wæter bebugeð, gesette sigehreþig sunnan ond monan leoman to leohte landbuendum, ond gefrætwade foldan sceatas leomum ond leafum, lif eac gesceop rynna gehwylcum þara ðe cwice hwyrfaþ.--- Swa þa drihtguman dreamum lifdon, eadiglice, oð ðæt an ongan fyrene fremman feond on helle; wæs se grimma gæst Grendel haten, mære mearcstapa, se þe moras heold, fen ond fæsten; fifelcynnes eard wonsæli wer weardode hwile, siþðan him Scyppend forscrifen hæfde in Caines cynne--- þone cwealm gewræc ece Drihten, þæs þe he Abel slog; ne gefeah he þære fæhðe, ac hehine feor forwræc, Metod for þy mane mancynne fram. Þanon untydras ealle on wocon, eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas, swylce gigantas, þa wið Gode wunnon Which is nothing like phonetic modern english, and thus his point.
- robocat 8y agoI don't get your beef. Riddley WaIker is set in an unspecified, post-apocalyptic era in the future.