On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Benjamin Schultz wrote: > On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> >> Actually, how about as an Epic? >> >> Create the following Rule (simultaneous transcription from old Agoran): > > What language did you use as "old Agoran?" And what does Blob have to do > with > the first stanza?
Old Agoran is just that, old Agoran. Polyglot due to its people, but rather peculiar to their geography, for example most words about talking and listening, and sending have a root related to the primitive phoneme at the root of "fora". Why the Agoran word for the color mauve is 'blob' and why that color is associated with ducks is obscure. Or maybe license, epics tend to have a lot of stock-phrases, metaphor, and repetition that is hard to directly translate, I tried to translate the metaphors to equivalent english rather than using literal word-by-word translation. -G.
