me: it'd be cool to show each character's name in the real-world writing system I associate with their fictional cultures
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me: it'd be cool to show each character's name in the real-world writing system I associate with their fictional cultures
me, half deaf: [squinting at IPA recordings on wikipedia, trying to figure out if "Serriden", a name I made up, has one type of 'r' or two]

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me: it'd be cool to show each character's name in the real-world writing system I associate with their fictional cultures
me, half deaf: [squinting at IPA recordings on wikipedia, trying to figure out if "Serriden", a name I made up, has one type of 'r' or two]

me: sure, I have my way that I pronounce the characters' names, but I decline to make that explicitly canonical; if you read them a bit differently, that's fine
writing system that divides the phonetic space differently: /hɛˈloʊ/
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me: it'd be cool to show each character's name in the real-world writing system I associate with their fictional cultures
me, half deaf: [squinting at IPA recordings on wikipedia, trying to figure out if "Serriden", a name I made up, has one type of 'r' or two]

@0xabad1dea Armenian?
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@0xabad1dea Armenian?
@EdtheChem yes. their fictional in-world language is a mishmash of Armenian and Tocharian influences (Tocharian being the redheaded stepchildren of Indo-European)