The Radarasilikan

[Scott Alexander]

Radarasilikan means "Book of the Language" It is an introduction to silika'Borelan, the Hyperborean language, which I am writing. It also contains some little cultural tidbits I dreamt up, which are as usual subject to change.I am hoping to bring it up to ten chapters, eventually.

[Kaiser Raynor X]

What's with the &#125 stuff in it? But this is really cool.. If you have it all in a single doc.. send it to me for ARchiving.. Raynor M'JiliadKaiser of Shireroth

[Harvey the Blue]

Yeah, all those broken characters make it functionally impossible to read. Sad, really. Harvey SteffkeJadie's Lesser HalfSaves the worldProud bearer of the Shirerothian Silver Sword Award and Imperial Star

[Scott Alexander]

MMph. I guess it doesn't like some of the symbols Word has. I'll upload the full document when I'm done.

[Shyriath]

Quote:Substantives are extremely rare in Hyperborean, so much so that no meaningful example can be given without the part-of-speech system making it redundant. If one were to want to use the word “śanére”, beautiful, as a noun, the obvious choice would be “śanéra”, beauty. However, a substantive form would be śanéreta, which would be equivalent to the English form “beautifulness”, and just as unnecessary.A thought here... couldn't substantives be used in another way? In the two non-English languages I have experience with (at least, the two not of my own construction), and for that matter, in English itself, adjectives are turned into nouns in a different way... usually in reference to people. Like when we say "the elderly"... "elderly" usually being an adjective, but here being used as a noun, instead of the lengthier "the elderly persons". They do this in Italian sometimes, too (le vecchie persone, "the elderly people"; i vecchi, "the elderly"), and in German (it's been a long time, so I can't give an exact example, but the word for "rich" did that... "the rich people" vs. "the rich" or "the wealthy", etc.).So the substantive for the adjective "beautiful" could conceivably be translated as the "the beautiful"... in the singular, it could refer to a single person (kinda like the "pretty" when the Wicked Witch of the West says, "I'll get you, my pretty") and in the plural, it would refer to "the beautiful" as a collective class... beautiful people/things as a group.

[Scott Alexander]

Interesting...however, I already have a qualifier, which unfortunately doesn't show up due to all the text symbol problems, which would represent a beautiful person. On the other hand, I think what you're trying to say with the plural is something similar to the Greek "ta agathon" type form, which isn't a bad idea at all.I kinda got bored with Hyperborean for a while and am putting it on the back burner until I regain interest, but I'll definitely consider that.

[Shyriath]

*Rejoices* Woo-hoo! My thought has (maybe possibly)infected another!

[Kaiser Raynor X]

Gods help us! heh Raynor M'JiliadKaiser of Shireroth