Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/05/06 05:56 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: (Orca spoiler) >On 1/5/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: >> There's a bit in _Issola_ where V mutters to himself in F, so perhaps >> he's fully bilingual or that's his milk tongue. > >Well, he's been to Fenarr, and it's some sort of soldier's curse. >Oddly enough, cursing seems to be one of the first things people pick >up in a new language; perhaps because the grammar of expletives is so >basic, and expletives are disproportionately likely to be curses. So >it could be a phrase learned in adulthood, even. Dangit, I know that someone has translated the Fenarian phrases used in /Issola/ peviously, but I can't remember if it was on the list, or on a fan page. I figured it *must* be on the Cracks-and-Shards languages page, but alas, it is not. Majikjon