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Yavanna
05-05-2004, 16:57
So, you're the new recruit I'm supposed to be tutoring? Quit pouting. Try not to reinforce every bad stereotype of American kids, all right? I've been there; I know that not every American under 30 is a spoiled, self-serving brat, but most people here don't.

How many languages do you speak already?

JUST ENGLISH?! Jesus Christ...what do they teach you over there? When do you start learning foreign languages? Thirteen? Christ, by then there's no point to it!

Anyway, you're only seven. I know you're only seven because all sorceresses are recruited at age seven, even if I hadn't seen your personal info in the databases already. But anyway, seven years old is still young enough to learn a new language.

Start with the basics; you've got a new alphabet to learn. Fortunately, most of our letters translate directly into your alphabet. That means they're basically the same thing, all right? Here's a worksheet (http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/421497762/0.jpg) with all of them on it. Don't lose it.

I expect you to learn all of them, and what order they're in in our alphabet. Make flash cards or something; I don't know.

If you want to try writing English words with Kehjistani letters, be really careful about what you write. Don't use "sol-hel" for SH, "gul" to spell "genius" or something...that loses you a lot of points on tests.

Tests? Of course. How else do you expect me to monitor your progress?

Don't give me that look. See you tomorrow.

Of course it was short. This is just a brief introductory meeting. I've got you for two hours tomorrow.

Indemaijinj
05-05-2004, 18:40
Heh, interesting, but if we include a few wowels not present in the english language we might actually be able to assign a sound to all the runes.

Actually the english language is rather wowel-poor now I come to think of it.

Example:

El, Eld and Eth.

El would be similar to a typical german e like in sehen.

Eld would be the typical english e like in tell.

Eth would be more similar to the e in herd, or the ø's or ö's of German and Scandinavian.



Also we have

Ith, Ist and Io.

Ith would be as you suggested. An I like in Thin.

Io would also be as you suggested an Y or "soft J" (soft J's don't exist in English, but they do in a lot of other languages).

Ist would be an alien to the English language. Example in Spanish would be the I in mi or hijo.



That does it for all the wowels, but there are still some consonants who are hard to assign, mainly:

Lem, Lum, Lo and Sol, Sur, Zod.

Zulehan
06-05-2004, 02:24
I don't get it. Am I missing an inside joke?

Khalic
06-05-2004, 15:33
No, he really does fall into the root beer.

DurfBarian
07-05-2004, 10:48
. . . that damn penguin . . .

Yavanna
03-06-2004, 15:36
Durf, what are you doing here?

This was kind of a lame story idea in the first place. I apologize. I have something better in mind, but I'm leaving for Yellowstone tomorrow and won't be back for three weeks (and Internet hookups aren't exactly standard creature comforts in National Park campgrounds).