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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Ripping off Láadan

As an experiment, I have for the past while (in private conversations with fellow Qadutu...ers... Qadutuans? Qadutoons? CULTISTS) been trying to end my sentences with "evidentials", little particles that indicate how I know what I claim to know. The ones I've been using thus far are almost entirely based on Láadan, 'cept (1) I simplified slightly and (2) per umu's suggestion, I have dropped the actual Láadan words in favour of acronyms for English phrases carrying more or less the same meaning:

/srs
(SRSly)
Known to speaker because perceived by speaker, externally or internally

/ov
(ObViously, or, OV course!)
Known to speaker because self-evident

/tad
(oh sheesh y'all, 'Twas A Dream!)
Perceived by speaker in a dream

/sih
(So I Hear)
Second-hand information

/ii
(I Imagine)
Imagined or invented by speaker, hypothetical

/wk
(Who Knows)
Used to indicate that the speaker states a total lack of knowledge as to the validity of the matter

Given abundantly by grisom at 1:20 PM
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