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And Be welcome to the Blog.
I'll try to explain a bit of wizarding reality and fantasy.
Wizards are not fond of public exposition.
Akkia is a language unrelated to most other languages, but share several characteristics some languages do, as the V2 of German, used in Akkia with a clear intetion of being more formal than usual, or final verbs, as in Japanese, used to add information to the conversation.
The magic folk would sound rude in some languages, as Japanese, because the normal level of a normal conversation is the Ifu, which is the "common" level, and it means it's informal -- mostly wizards find it strange that the normal level of conversation in other languages is the formal one, because what's important it what you're talking to the people important to you, not strangers.
So, the way you treat strangers is the normal level and common language.
It happens because formality in Akkia is the admirative forms of sentences and you shouldn't admire a complete stranger, from who you know nothing about, or a supposed higher status person -- if the person is really important, you should know.
But in fantasy, wizards are portrayed as formal characters.
The difference is very clear, where the fantasy starts and what's real in here.
Another distinction is in the use of names, because you should use a first common name, or a pet name, not a person's surname or last name -- or first, if we should compare with Japanese -- the question here is that we're talking to close persons.
If you're talking to a complete stranger though use V2, not ergative.
Or else, use the stative, which is SVO -- a stranger would understand what you're trying to say -- but then, if it's someone who speaks Akkia so to understand what you're saying, the stranger is closer than a complete stranger.
Ergative means the Verb may be marked for transitivity, and arguments go with that, but it also means you're speaking in a more polite manner. This is the level which can be named polite.
Then -- "The rain rains", the first "rain" would be marked absolutive.
Remember you can "split" at any time, changing everything in your sentence.
But then, it comes the Verb may be speaking about your interest.
Akkia has three positions for the Verb: a. V2, or Verb Second, and we're talking about this, b. initial, for instructions, and c. final, which is always factual, we're talking about facts or else adding new information to the conversation.
Verb Second means you show admiration to the person you're talking to.
That's the reason it's not necessarily polite -- that's the Ergative.
You can always use SVO word order and mark nothing, and this is the Stative -- this is the alignment that's really formal in a way and other.
But then Topic is not shown in this alignment, because you have a full subject.
When you mark accusative, you're not using SVO positions, but TV2C, that is Topic first, Verb Second, and Comment -- you can change the positions of what you're saying, and be grammatically correct.
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Examples –– Tayo(s/es)
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Mersch te dalas Mahou wa. –– Always look for the details.
Mersch te mahou takeloo wa. –– Look for the details as it were the first time.
Makkumme da ite sa! –– What a tragedy! –– this is much used.
Taaspa hu, eru dja wa. –– With care everthing is possible.
Irui amarila obou icchi dul-a. –– Once (upon a time) there was a very green tree.
Taaspahummeshimou dil-a. –– With care, you can do it (whatever).
Mooki – exp. – It's going to be fine – Don't worry.
Shonnet egga niffua vá tutu. –– Negation won't help you.
Oola Organgyer Zennattari dil-a. –– The pearl is the goal of fishing.
Klanor ýr tá baichyer, ud tachi bund, niyssen da llordi wa. –– A count take care of a region, and fund groups, then he/she is a leader.
Organg! –– Goal! Match point! –– Greetings!
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I have to say that I enjoy a lot writing for this Blog.
That's the real thing, but more, I've found something I like doing.
The more I write, the more I can find what to write about.
I've written on V2 before, but sometimes it gets fantastic, and I start thinking about a session of play played entirely in lang, and I'm really impressed on how much we have seen of Akkia during the course of writing this Blog.
Do you know some words and want more? Let's do it! Let's write a book in Akkia, and let's read it aloud so to bother our neighbors with a language they don't know, and let's teach some basic wording, play more.
I'm starting revision on my next book, here in the future.
By the time shown by the post I was doing revision on my first book, and then starting to think on the next one.
I was now looking to the road paved, and I enjoyed every little step.
It was a hard time, so to say, but that's what happen.
The book was retained by the publisher, in my country, but it was published in England. So, the original the language written wasn't published until now, here in the future -- don't worry, it's finally published, 170 bookstores wanted the book.
The problem is that the bookstore really needs to buy the book.
It's a big book, by an unknown writer, and a small publisher -- so, the bookstores are right in thinking a lot about buying it or not. But well, we could see the book one sells a lot to people who like to read, and those who know Magic, as the wicca.
I'm proud to say book two in on the way, I'm working on it.
The first, "Silence" is a mix of science fiction and fantasy, and it's written with thoughts and emotions of some characters -- there are characters I've not put the inside on the narrative, because the storyteller doesn't know what they were thinking and feeling by that time.
I'm interested in knowing from those who have read your theories -- I really love theories! It's great.
It's a break in the wording here, but it's a blog -- I'll tell you what.
I now get interrupted by people who want to tell me the basic script of a story, and they want me to write it! No, it's not possible. I'm a writer, and I have to investigate to write -- don't tell me your basic script of aliens who eat people, and want me to publish that.
Also, I don't work just everyday -- actually, I work all the time.
I'm always thinking of characters, facts, and dialogue.
Enough said, let's get back to V2 -- real and fantastic, all that is gets more interesting with use. If you say -- "Akata ga wa", that's -- "(I) don't understand" -- are you still using V2 because of an invisible I? No, you're not. But it's usual to drop the pronoun, so we can "imagine" the pronoun "I" in that sentence -- you could also be speaking of a second person: -- "(You) don't understand" -- so, we came to context.
Our language depends on the context to be understood properly.
We rely on information that may not be spoken, and that's real grammar.
Even though, you can imagine the (I/You) in that place, and that's fantasy, imagination, so that works like a V2 in there -- if you think Akkia is a language which was made initially for fiction, you must probably understand it better.
I'm not saying yet anything about worldbuilding.
Real world is enough to start thinking on wizards and witches using the language.
But the worlds of play we use in Enigma are both real and fictional -- the chance of what the group is playing to have happened is so big, we must consider the play real, and the group's creative work fiction, in the form of a story and a language, changes something in the (again) both real and fictional Universe.
What the fantasy do in other games is to take the real from their games.
But when using the Enigma investigative game, you let Chaos do its work, and reveal both real options (options because there are things we cannot change), and fantastic (because it's a game) -- so, when we use a rule in a language we're inventing, that rule -- as the V2 for the admirative -- must be used in game, so that's why we're teaching the language in here, so that you can practice using the game.
Everytime a player uses the language, give them Experience.
Experience is what will make the magic happen -- that, or change something in game, in favor of that player. The use of the language must be increased with this work, and the magic is in changing the winds in favor of the players, with much care.
We tested this and found it easier to manipulate the entropic forces that rule the dice rolls with respect for the Chaos involved -- this will make your game much better -- I'm sorry if I was too theorethical with this explanation.
What I intended to say was "Respect The Chaos" involved in the investigation, so that you can turn the winds in favor of the players, otherwise the results of the dice rolls will start to do the oposite -- if you don't respect the forces involved, they'd turn agains the group.
So, use the V2 with people you know, because it shows admiration.
This is a matter of respecting people who must be admired, not exactly reverred, and it shows admiration just by using the Verb in second place -- you don't even need to know well how to use the alignments, that are the real formality of our language.
That or, use both -- you can always use the Stative order SVO, if you're in doubt on how to show admiration.
We usually say: -- "Admirative kept", when we want to keep the admiration so to use it later.
That has a counterpart, which is the Verb Final, or "Finnet".
The "finnet" is used all the time too, to add information to the conversation.
We don't use Bias with "finnet", because it's not a personal opinion.
So, you can say: -- "Osto da wa!", and you MUST say the "wa", otherwise it becomes ungrammatical -- the grammarly correct form is a V2, so you can't finish a sentence with a bias of opinion with a verb -- including the copula "da".
The example sentence means "I'm sure it is (the case)!", and it depends on context to be understood.
But you can say, together: -- "Huttu da!", for "That's right!", bacause it shows no opinion markers, that we call Bias of Opinion -- it turns your somewhat opinion into something that shows "truth" because it ends with the copula, which is a Verb.
If you say: "Osto huttu da wa!", you must use the finnet "wa".
You're not just adding information to what's being said, but adding a Comment.
You can comment anytime, and most Comments end with a particle.
You can acquire the Comment ability with magic, and that ends with this coming to be a secret.
The secret words that are used to be able to make a Comment are a spell.
And this is the Wizarding Language, so spellcasting happens.
We use "yet" for a common comment, or "yot" for a strong opinion comment.
You can understand what's being said with your Magic.
If you don't know the Magic involved, just use the V2 with whom you want to prise and show admiration.
I hope you're enjoying your time reading the Blog -- Let's do some Magic!, folks.
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