So, I'm pretty sure we all know that the Ancient Language kinda sucks. It's not even a true conlang, just an English cipher using words mostly stolen from Old Norse, with a few features of other languages thrown in randomly to differentiate it once Paolini started receiving criticism. However, my focus here is on why it sucks as a "true language," ( Read more... )

( I will tone down the references from now onwards )

I'd like to make yet another post about the Ancient Language, and fictional languages in general ( Read more... )

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Hey all. Been lurking this journal for a couple months or so. I found this place off of a link from Swankivy's essays about the Inheritance Cycle, which I found very humorous and enlightening, especially since I was oblivious to most of the flaws in Paolini's work at the time. Anyways, I've found this little community to be an intelligent and ( Read more... )

( Some TL;DR )

Okay, so I found this page on the Ancient Language. I was originally going to try to figure out the patterns for myself, but hey, since this exists, why not use it? What you'll read here are my commentaries on the syntax and grammar rules of the Ancient Language. Now, I'm no linguist, but I do know a bit about languages and they're what I'm ( Read more... )

This isn't sparked by or in reference to any book in particular, but just a general genre-specific question ( Read more... )

This time I come on behalf of Diamondo, who is working on an essay regarding Paolini's languages. She is researching exhaustively, but there is so much ground to cover that she was wondering if she could enlist your assistance ( Read more... )