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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 10, 2023 22:21:58 GMT -5
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Post by bastet1002 on Jan 13, 2023 0:37:35 GMT -5
I just bought that last month! It's brilliant! I'd novel to use it for novel writing some time...
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 13, 2023 3:28:26 GMT -5
I just bought that last month! It's brilliant! I'd novel to use it for novel writing some time... I thought it looked great, can you tell us more about it? |
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Post by bastet1002 on Jan 13, 2023 9:36:37 GMT -5
The dictionary itself is made up of words it borrows from different European languages, and also Latin and Old and Middle English. It also combines parts of modern words to make new ones. It you page through it and read through the definitions, you will sit there nodding all the way through - though the definitions are largely a little sad and cynical about life.
Take the word "feresy" which is made up of Middle English "free" meaning a partner or companion, and the contemporary word "heresy." Part of the definition is: "the fear your partner is changing in ways you don't understand..."
Each word in the book captures different melancholy situations or feelings we've been in, but there is no single word to explain it ... that is until now. It is a fun book just to randomly open a page up and start reading a single definition.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 13, 2023 11:11:37 GMT -5
The dictionary itself is made up of words it borrows from different European languages, and also Latin and Old and Middle English. It also combines parts of modern words to make new ones. It you page through it and read through the definitions, you will sit there nodding all the way through - though the definitions are largely a little sad and cynical about life. Take the word "feresy" which is made up of Middle English "free" meaning a partner or companion, and the contemporary word "heresy." Part of the definition is: "the fear your partner is changing in ways you don't understand..." Each word in the book captures different melancholy situations or feelings we've been in, but there is no single word to explain it ... that is until now. It is a fun book just to randomly open a page up and start reading a single definition. Wow, so the whole book is brand new words, I have thought different times that I should make up new words and just start using them everywhere. But these are way better than anything I thought of. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 31, 2023 18:05:27 GMT -5
I was thinking of this again and if I wrote or we wrote up a version of D&D sans the OGL or the Creative Commons license, we would have to create a dictionary to go with it, with all of our new words.
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