> The zombies
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> The zombies
ugh no, not more zombie stories…
> won — and ten years after the fall of humanity, they're the dominant form of life (or not-life) on Earth. They've developed their own cultural practices, their own language, their own society.
me: wait wait did you say language
author, probably: yeah
me: what's the grammar like? what's the phonology
author:
me:
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> The zombies
ugh no, not more zombie stories…
> won — and ten years after the fall of humanity, they're the dominant form of life (or not-life) on Earth. They've developed their own cultural practices, their own language, their own society.
me: wait wait did you say language
author, probably: yeah
me: what's the grammar like? what's the phonology
author:
me:@elilla have you read the ancillary series? deeply enjoy how they interact with language, nontranslatable contexts and cultural nuance -
> The zombies
ugh no, not more zombie stories…
> won — and ten years after the fall of humanity, they're the dominant form of life (or not-life) on Earth. They've developed their own cultural practices, their own language, their own society.
me: wait wait did you say language
author, probably: yeah
me: what's the grammar like? what's the phonology
author:
me:you would be surprised. nothing about this makes sense. sometimes you have highly elaborate fantasy worlds with decades of worldbuilding by different authors, and there's not a single language to be seen, even when they're directly ripping off Tolkien where languages were like, literally the whole point of the thing (e.g. Dungeons & Dragons worldbuilding like Forgotten Realms etc.) then sometimes a random minor arc in Conan the Barbarian comics has people shouting unknown words and I look at them and I'm like, waaait a minute this is a language. you made a language for your ten-issue run on Conan the Barbarian?! I mean I'm not complaining but.
and then you have stuff like The Goblin Emperor that has a pretty fantastic, little polished gem of a language and 0% of reviews even talk about it and the sequel has no samples at all and the whole thing is set up to break my heart specifically
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> The zombies
ugh no, not more zombie stories…
> won — and ten years after the fall of humanity, they're the dominant form of life (or not-life) on Earth. They've developed their own cultural practices, their own language, their own society.
me: wait wait did you say language
author, probably: yeah
me: what's the grammar like? what's the phonology
author:
me:> My name is Mouse-pokes-golf-ball-out-of-head-hole, but it's easier if you just call me "Poke". He's Mushrooms-grown-up-all-over-like-little-forests, my limbling in the Brain-splashes-and-sizzles-on-hot-rocks horde of the undead.
so the zombies speak English, only they use sign language-type proper names?
