I'm Sick and Delerious. Have a Banik Linguistics lesson.
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 ( Read more... )
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 ( Read more... )
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PS: if you're around, I'm online for maybe 30 more mins.
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The majority of that stuff I had already, BTW, I just felt like sharing it now.
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"they have absolutely no concept of privacy; whether this comes from being slaves for a very very long time, or it was from before, who the frell knows."
Damn, now I'm thinking Baniks are Irish. 'Ceptin' the sperm part. I ain't never seen nothin' like that up my way (we're practically all Irish up here! Weeee!)
Of course I jest but if you've ever read Joyce's "The Dubliners" and the "paralysis" of the Irish people it sort of works. Interesting. I'm sold! He is Irish!
Actually, I guess Jewish could work as well but he has this quirkiness that is definitely more Irish and that inability to believe in himself yet never quite giving up... I still go with Irish.
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Death actually doesn't have anything to do with drinking or dancing for Banik (in my world). I'm not sure they do either, actually.
That said, the Banik/Irish paralells most certainly are there, especially the way Joyce talks about the in "The Dubliners" you're right!
I think that might have to do with the fact that most of the things I came up with for thier culture tie into being slaves - and the Irish are culturally a very repressed people.
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And I'm with you on Stark being naive about his role/culture. I'm thinking he's doing what he has maybe heard done through a third party, i.e., "Come on Stark, get them over to the other side! You are Strykera after all" (and he'd be used to taking orders as he's a slave; omg, hit John and Aeryn for forcing him to do shiny thing in PKW!!!! bad! bad! bad! OMG! Even Zhan flips his mask up w/o asking!!!!) *adjusts composure and apron* Sorry...
What was I saying? Not a clue really, just having
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It's getting closer... I think what I'm trying to get at is that a) death is an event, a milestone, like graduating or marrying or giveing birth and b) they have a word for being present and witnessing somebody's death, even if you're not a Stykera and not "doing" anything.
I just weny around saying it in a very very wierd way...
And I'm with you on Stark being naive about his role/culture. I'm thinking he's doing what he has maybe heard done through a third party, i.e., "Come on Stark, ( ... )
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Some specific comments, peppered with a lot of rambling about how the Banik language works in my RPG world:
"Light" - the light of creation, the Banik concept of the devine, also the energy that forms the non-corporeal part of a Banik's selfI have the word "zel" meaning light in a literal sense, as well as expressing the Banik concept of divinity. (It's also a syllable that crops up as part of a lot of other words, some of them having nothing obvious to do with light. E.g., the name of Stark's cat, Zelza, which means "quick" or "swift.") There's a different word for the energy... Culturally, it's associated ( ... )
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There is, there is, I promise, I'm just having trouble digging it out myself. Dammit, why hasn't our species develloped telepaathy yet? I know what I mean in my head!
I'm very much looking forward to reading this epic when it's finished!
Actually, if I have my way you'll be reading this epic before it's finished. I'm intending on posting each of the twenty two episodes as I write them, which is why I'm being so meticulous about the outline and setting - creating a "series bible" as it were.
I have the word "zel" meaning light in a literal sense, as well as expressing the Banik concept of divinity. (It's also a syllable that crops up as part of a lot of other words, some of them having nothing obvious to do with light. E.g., the name of Stark's cat, Zelza, which means "quick" or "swift.")Nice semantic association there. Out of idle curiosity, does it have anything to do with ( ... )
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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 ( ... )
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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.
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And I hope you feel better soon. *hugs*
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