I'm Sick and Delerious. Have a Banik Linguistics lesson.

[lizamanynames]

Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh... sick.

I've got this head cold thing which means I'm listless and can't think and when I do think it's all disjointed and weird; I slept for something like 12 hours total and kept having the most messed up psychotic dreams

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[astrogirl2]

Out of idle curiosity, does it have anything to do with the Zy of Zy Limbron?

No... I think I tend to regard his explication of "zy limbron" as "not alive" as something approaching a literal translation (albeit one that loses the subtleties of the Banik phrase). My version of Banik just has a lot of z's for some reason. :)

And yeah, there probably are as you say at least six words that the microbes turn into "energy" - that idea stealable?

Sure. It's a fairly commonsense idea, anyway. (I've also said at some point that Baniks have something like fifteen different words or phrases that translate loosely as "ghost," though I think most of them are little-used Stykera technical terms. :))

Which means Banik'ra might actually be Sebacean.

Yeah, it occurred to me that that could easily make my take on it compatible with the official RPG psuedo-canon, if I really cared about that. :)

Actually, very frequently a land or territory means something like "place where we live"

Yup. And the name of a planet might be, oh, "land" or "home" or "the world" or, gosh, "earth." :)

[lizamanynames]

No... I think I tend to regard his explication of "zy limbron" as "not alive" as something approaching a literal translation (albeit one that loses the subtleties of the Banik phrase). My version of Banik just has a lot of z's for some reason. :)

Cause of Zhaan! :D And your thoughts on Zy Limbron pretty much match mine, though while I'm sure Zy means something like "not" Limbron I was torn for an exact definition and decided I could do it later.