Okay, little help here.
Jun. 18th, 2004 02:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesI'm trying to see if I can come up with an alternative to the 'Trnaslator' that Melody uses in my comic to let the crew learn Hinode's language quickly. Because it's a really campy idea, to be honest. Well, it's better than making them all speak English, I suppose.
Hinode's language is close enough to terrestrial languages (well, like a mix of them, probably with a Romance language base, since I want to work it out, and Spanish is the only language I know at all well. I would be cool to use Japanese, though.) that it's at least pluasible that a translation computer could make heads or tails of it. For that matter, Hinoiri's native language is Germanic in base -- with me attempting to root out the Latin bits that sank in. There's also a dialect/related language that's the native tongue of the Halfings, and a more Roamnce-like language for the Dryads. The Hinode language is kept as a lingua franca by the Sprites, who have magical communication -- there are probably still local dialects running around, correptions of the old languages, but Hinoden is the language of trade and government.
But, anyways, as fun as this is, do I have any other options besides the translation computer (a combination of AI and psi-tech)? Ideas?
Hinode's language is close enough to terrestrial languages (well, like a mix of them, probably with a Romance language base, since I want to work it out, and Spanish is the only language I know at all well. I would be cool to use Japanese, though.) that it's at least pluasible that a translation computer could make heads or tails of it. For that matter, Hinoiri's native language is Germanic in base -- with me attempting to root out the Latin bits that sank in. There's also a dialect/related language that's the native tongue of the Halfings, and a more Roamnce-like language for the Dryads. The Hinode language is kept as a lingua franca by the Sprites, who have magical communication -- there are probably still local dialects running around, correptions of the old languages, but Hinoden is the language of trade and government.
But, anyways, as fun as this is, do I have any other options besides the translation computer (a combination of AI and psi-tech)? Ideas?
