Re: Broo language?

From: Simon Phipp <soltakss_at_IRh2Hz0wrrKIfPuzqh2CB5iQuX-DHcq9tbfTlR1rqmCxMxVyn36mYXW7HZ5188QuTO5>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 12:43:21 -0000

Adept:
> > Well, broo don't really keep captives alive to learn languages
from
> them.
> > How would you learn a language without ever conversing with
someone who
> > spoke it?
> > Daniel
>
> What else can they have? It's the language they hear spoken. No
doubt
> a broo spends a lot of time hiding/spying on and stalking members
of
> the local culture. The alternative pretty much is having a
language of
> their own, and I'm not sure there's enough cultural continuity
among them.

I think they would.

If they had contact with other chaotics, and such contact does exist, then they would pick up their language, perhaps as a secondary language. But, I doubt if broos from Sartar would speak Sartarite, for instance. Sure, they might know some local words, but it would be very basic indeed.

If you think about it, they'd no the words for "no", "please", "don't" and so on from their normal interaction. They might even know "Foul slime, curse of existence, begone ...", so they could run away from whoever says it.

In places like the Lunar Empire, then some broos would speak Lunar/New Pelorian and they might teach this to other broo. Dorastor has organised broo as does the Tunnelled Hills chaos nest, so they might have some shared language amongst each group of broo.

> One group that interacts with the broo are ogres, and they will
speak
> the local dialect. Chaos cultists in general is another one, again
> speaking Sartarite in Sartar.

One solution would be to use a runic tongue, such as Chaosspeech, that is taught by chaos cultists and could be used as a lingua franca amongst chaotics, but I'm not sure if I like the idea of that.

The inherent side of broo language would include terms for Mallia and Thed, pehaps even Ragnaglar, although they would be very basic. It would also include terms for food, hunting, chasing, hiding, catching, shagging, rogering, raping and so on. Eskimos supposedly have 30 words for "snow", broos probably have 30 words for nookie.

See Ya

Simon