Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

What languages enter your books? Especially if you write fantasy like me.

One of the chapters of my Vermillion is based around a variation of the word Teleport in Persian.

I also speak the Scandiavian languages (They are all pretty similar) so that often comes up in names and places.

I can pick those words out of other media, that obviously have influence.

(For instance when Aragorn and Arwen are by her horse in the movie, he says "Nej Alskerling." In Elvish. It means 'No, my darling' and must have been funny for the danish Viggo to say :])

Its also why I chose Twitter-ling, for you lot :3

What words have entered your books that sound awesome?

What's this? Only 2 posts?
I'll add one then.
What language? English of course with a little bit of Spanish, Norwegian and another language that comes from my imagination.
Spanish: two characters that are Hispanic.
Norwegian: two characters from Norway.
Fictional: my alien lets out a few words here and there.

In The Battle for Brisingamen I used both Dutch and old Norse woven throughout the tale, and for the Elve's names I stole from the Romanian (oh, and for the rings of power) ... I had great fun with this.
Sadly, The Glade is all English with not a foreign word in sight - I did do a shakespeare though and make up a word - English can be a bit limited at times :)
@James J - I love the use of Sanskrit, it is a truly beautiful language :)

@James I really like that idea

@g.g I like the alien word idea :p

@Harmony I'm writing an essay on the roles of women in viking religion and I thought of your novel name :3

@Bisky Speaking of Vikings, I'm watching the TV series Viking at the moment. Strangely I keep thinking of you when I do. :P

I CAN UNDERSTAND THEM!

Is what I screamed when they started speaking Norse infront of the English :p My bf just looked at me like -_-

lol I've got to ask. When they speak English, they have a cute accent. Is that how they sound in English for real? :P

As you can see, I'm a big fan of accents in general. I LOVE accents as long as I can understand the language still, although sometimes I don't and I still find it cute.

Some-err-times it is wery wery obveeeous ven they have an err-accent.

Otherwise they just sound native english and slightly americanised like my Viking and its all very boring :p

And yes the accent is adorable, but hardly anyone has it under the age of 30 since everyone just speaks english so good :[

I find that with the dutch, any of my dutch friends who speak in english always have a certain precise pronunciation with a lilt that I just adore :) I put this into The Battle for Brisingamen for the dutch characters, but really a lot of the lilt just has to be in the reader's imagination.
@Bisky - your essay sounds fab :3

@Bisky Good imitation! I could almost hear it! :)

I have friends from Jersey, (the other side of your pond) and when we are on TeamSpeak I keep making them talk just because I adore their accent. (Don't worry, they know about it.)

I also have an American friend who can copy any accent he hears and it always makes me laugh. He's got them so well. No need to say I love TS when they are online!

When me and Viking used to talk on Teamspeak they (our portugese guild members) all thought he was English... he watches too much tv :p

haha Well, although I love accents, I still think it's a good thing when someone speaks in another language and has no accent. As much as I love other's accent, I wished I didn't have one myself. People keep asking me where I come from. They notice the little difference they say but not enough to pinpoint the origin.

British people who watch my vlogs often comment on my strange accent. My grandparents who I stayed with often had BBC 1940s accents, I had to get rid of that in highschool otherwise I would get my butt kicked for being 'posh' (well spoken) now I've moved here I have to speak with american pronounciation of certain words orhterwise no one has and idea what the bloody hell I'm saying :p My american BFF has heard my brother on skype and mentioned just -how- British he sounds compared to me :P

Even in England I'm an alien - at least as soon as I open my mouth ... I'm just too northern to get away with it down here in the south :P I often have to try and translate.
Oh, BTW, I just started using Enochian in the book I'm currently working on - that's great fun :D

My main characters are Chinese, and my book begins in China before moving to North America, but I didn't dare try using any Chinese in my book. My title, though, The Long Way, is a play on the Chinese word for dragon.

@Harmony interesting :o

@Michael thats really cool. Have you been to china, or have friends from there? My cultural influences are always friend based as I'm not very well travelled lol

Thanks, Bisky. I do have Chinese friends, but none who were born into 19th-century brothels like the ones in my book! And although this is a stand-alone story, it's the start of a series that will be very, very, very global. I'm going to have to do a lot of traveling to finish it!

That sounds like a fantastic reason to travel :3