Á Quetë Quenyanen!

[Micamo]

Ruinë uryëa mi órenya. Quettar racen. Ní ëa lamára.

[Micamo]

Elmendayisselin, ta pan yomeniëlma diëndëo.

(As is necessary for such an incomplete conlang, I had to invent a couple of neologisms. Elmendayissë from "Elmenda" (Wonder), meaning "curious (person)." Diëndë means "Dungeons and Dragons" from the acronym "DnD.")

[Micamo]

Elmendayan, cenasta "hrótar arë lóci?"

[Ossicone]

Kúmatxkiwinyainalutikinusat.

Spoiler:

kumaʧ-kiwiɲai-na-lut-ikinus-at
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"Quenya is the most foreign thing ever."

[Micamo]

Nan naëressen! Nafúmeyan queto imnennar.

[Ossicone]

Fímaja xinukúmatxana. Yarzím yakúmatxana kíwinyaahi.

[Micamo]

Let's go back to English, I'm awkward with Quenya anyway, though ironically I'm better with it than I am with any non-english natlang.

[Ossicone]

Well I had no idea what you were saying.

It just sounds like something Inyauk would brand as blatantly foreign.

[Micamo]

Well I had no idea what you were saying.

It just sounds like something Inyauk would brand as blatantly foreign.

Here it is then:

Ruinë uryëa mi órenya. Quettar racen. Ní ëa lamára.

A fire burns in my heart. The words tear me. I am without beauty.

Elmendayisselin, ta pan yomeniëlma diëndëo.

For those curious, this came from our conversation about DnD.

Elmendayan, cenasta "hrótar arë lóci?"

I wonder, maybe "Dungeons and Dragons?" (Literal translation rather than a rebus).

Nan naëressen! Nafúmeyan queto imnennar.

But I'm lonely! I'm tired of talking to myself.

[Ossicone]

Fímaja xinukúmatxana. Yarzím yakúmatxana kíwinyaahi.

You can talk to yourself. No one is speaking Quenya.

[Micamo]

Well I thought I wouldn't be the only elvish fan ;-; (Agyonnar's phonology is a pretty big ripoff of Eldarin in general)

[Ossicone]

<-- Is getting pretty good at Inyauk.


I didn't even have to look anything up. :D

[Micamo]

I wish I could say that about anything.

[Ossicone]

Do you take any foreign language classes?

[Micamo]

Nope. Self taught in basically everything.

[Ossicone]

Yeah. You'll never learn if you don't have any practice. That's why I forgot all of my German. (Ich spreche kein Deutsch.)

I've been translating a lot lately, so I guess it stuck.

[Micamo]

Yeah. You'll never learn if you don't have any practice. That's why I forgot all of my German. (Ich spreche kein Deutsch.)

I've been translating a lot lately, so I guess it stuck.

But I did (and do) practice. I just suck.

It's not just languages, I'm incredibly slow to learn basically everything.

[Ossicone]

Yeah. You'll never learn if you don't have any practice. That's why I forgot all of my German. (Ich spreche kein Deutsch.)

I've been translating a lot lately, so I guess it stuck.

But I did (and do) practice. I just suck.

It's not just languages, I'm incredibly slow to learn basically everything.

Maybe that's cause you spend all your time online instead of studying! :P

I think I just got lucky in that I'm good with learning languages. (I also like to think I'm quite clever, but I'm hardly a good judge of that.) But I suck ass at naming terms or the abstraction of language.

[Micamo]

If there's anything I'm less bad at, it's abstraction to the point of absolute insanity. Care for some Category Theory?

[Ossicone]

If there's anything I'm less bad at, it's abstraction to the point of absolute insanity. Care for some Category Theory?

Can I draw pictures? Cause I love drawing pictures.