@lightsaber-dorphin

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#I need this in a time-travel fic

Ooooh!

Color me intrigued!

I'll have to do it in the 7 days I have left before NaNoWriMo though, as I'm participating this year

... Someone's probably already said this, but if Ahsoka's training Sabine, who was also trained by Kanan...

The shatterpoint lineage has crossed over with the disaster lineage. Mace Windu must be rolling in his grave.

...welp

Gonna need purgill to come in clutch yet again

Either that or the way between worlds. Something's going to have to happen

Okay ran into aphantasia again and well whoops

I may or may not have not realized that visualization is literal and people actually see things in their heads

I do not.

Neither does my mother, or her mother for that matter.

It's weird. I come up with things but yeah no I close my eyes and imagine something I ain't seeing jack piddly squat. No wonder that I, imaginative youngling I am, have insomnia I'm basically just talking to myself all night long. When I imagine something, or try to remember something, I have the idea and knowledge of it and not much else. No mental hallucinations for me!

I have a knowledge of the images I want to make but after realizing this I finally understood why I can't draw any character consistently without a reference. It's because the idea I have of them in my head is descriptive and abstract, it's like using an AI and only giving it words to depict something. I don't remember images, either. Photos are important.

As a writer, I gravitate to more dialogue heavy storytelling, though I'm not too shabby with descriptions.

actually wait. i wanna see how many ppl out these share my struggles. ('visual artist' here being any form of art that requires visualization to create)

if you have aphantasia i would love to hear how that's shaped your experience with creating art in the tags!

do you ever get just a little annoyed because people seem to ignore the books in fanfiction or is that just me?

it was Narnia this time, i have yet to find a fanfic with more than a subtle nod to the books.

i just want Susan/Caspian with the books and Peter and Caspian being friends and Caspian having known about the Narnians still living plz just look at book canon for a moment i am B E G G I N G

Mando'a Dialects in- and out-of-universe

Outgame (irl) there are several different versions of Mandoʻa: The Shadows of the Empire Soundtrack version (Notron Cant), the Republic Commando Soundtrack version (Jesse Harlin's text), the Old Republic version (as seen in SWtOR or KotOR), the Republic Commando Novels version (Karen Traviss' version), the Mandoa.org version (their forum members made up a lot of extra vocabulary), several different tumblr versions, and the Disney version (as in the TV-series Star Wars Rebels). They all have distinctive similarities (the Notron Cant is an exception), but unfortunately, they also all somewhat differ. Since Karen Traviss published her Mandoʻa version online, complete with a dictionary, the Mandoa.org version and most tumblr versions are based on her version. Her version in turn is vaguely based on Jesse Harlin's version-the first Mandoʻa on file, so to say. I myself see them as different dialects or development stages of the same language.

See, Karen Traviss' Mandoʻa and also most of Mandoa.org's Mandoʻa uses Basic (i.e. English) grammar with a Mandalorian vocabulary, so I call that version Soldiers' Pidgin. It's obviously (ingame) a creole language that came into existence after the Mandalorian diaspora. It is this Soldiers' Pidgin that Kal Skirata taught his children (the Nulls) and possibly also the language that the Alphas taught other, younger clones (e.g. the CC class or the ARC-troopers) as a "secret" language to hide from the Kaminoans. If it was used by the clones in such a way, the GAR should have its own dialect. The different internet versions of Mandoʻa all seem to be based on Karen Traviss' dictionary, so I see them as different dialects of the Soldiers' Pidgin. The same reasoning can be applied to Disney's Mandoʻa.

The language of Vode An, Graʻtua Cuun, Darasuum Kote, etc. on the other hand uses a grammar that differs from Basic. It is an older form of Mandoʻa, probably the Mandoʻa spoken on Mandaʻyaim before the Excision - seven-hundred years ago. It's a lot more interesting (for me, at least). I propose calling it Classic Mandoʻa. It has its own grammar; it has a similar vocabulary as Soldiers' Pidgin, but with distinct and sometimes varying pronunciations (sometimes depending on the rhyme or rhythm of the song); it has a lot of epitaphs and kennings and references and can have very flowery phrasing. It's used, in or around the time of Palpatine's Empire, predominantly in older songs and poems. An irl-equivalent could be Shakespearean English.

We can probably view the (archaic) tOR version as vaguely translated into modern Mandoʻa (Soldiers' Pidgin, probably) since there is exactly no way that the language changes so little in over 3000 years. I also propose that the Basic back then has very few similarities to the Basic that's spoken during the Skywalker Wars.

Missing is a sort of current, modern version of Classic Mandoʻa. I think that is (sadly) very realistic. A society that is so broken up by something like orbital bombardment would likely, over the centuries, develop several different creole versions and try to keep their original language as unchanged as possible, leading to exactly the combination described above.

Here are some other people's thoughts:

Numidian Prime

A History of Mando’a

The language that came to be known as Mando’a was initially developed by composer Jesse Harlin to be used in the soundtrack he created for t

...why though?

You know, we're in luck that she hasn't reacted yet, if it were bad... Well. Nobody wants to end up like Overhaul.

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