On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Adam Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Yes well I m rather too busy for silliness as well. I have a play
> practice, writing group, and plan to hang the icecicle lights. Oh and
> some actual work on my novel would be nice. But I simply must take the
> time to inform you that INTERDIMENSIONAL space monkeys are never
> winged as the wings get stuck in the doorways between the worlds. As
> for writing manuals in Lrahrah, I do believe the space monkeys gave
> Lrahan a try as a Auxlang back between the Intergalactic Wars, but got
> too confused by the pronouns. Now the only space monkeys who seriously
> study Lrahran are that small minority who are like totally into Baltic
> vomitcore. As for the native language of interdimensional space
> monkeys, I believe Amanda Babcock Furrow has that thoroughly
> documented. And wicked is such a demeaning term. Rather say she was
> the Niceness~challenged Wicca Practitioner of the Disorient. Adam
>
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> Strangely enough, this actually brings us back to the original discussion
> on terms for “intended” and “betrothed” and the like.
>
> (By the way, doesn’t Lrahran have a trial number for the pronouns?  Isn’t
> that fun!)
>
> So I wonder, how exactly would I translate “The Wicked Witch of the West”
> into Babel?  And by “witch” for this current discussion, I mean,
> mythological woman who practices magic, rather than a person of any of the
> Wiccan faith traditions.  I don’t mean to offend.
>
> (Although if I remember right, Láadan does has Shósho for Magic Granny …)
>
> Anyway, the easiest translation would be a word that means “enchantress …”
> however, those words also mean “bride” as in “enchanting woman.”  After
> all, when the special ceremonial drums are beat, when the bride wears her
> special dress and wears a festoon of flowers, she does become magical.  In
> the same way that an opera singer can become a king or a ghost, even if he
> just wears a paper crown or a silver costume, in the same way, a bride
> becomes something of a different world.
>
> However “Wicked Bride of the West” doesn’t make a lot of sense.  Who’s
> her husband?  Is she just wearing a wedding dress all the time and
> enslaving Munchkins … ?
>
> The easiest translation would be to make her a Queen … and especially an
> Alien Queen.  At least in literature, Alien Monarchs are expected to be a
> bit eccentric and even dangerous (this is one of the reasons why the
> Duchess and the Queen of Hearts are aliens in my translation).
>
> A bigger problem would be what to make of the flying monkeys.  I’d have
> to choose some suitably mythological and winged creatures to fit the bill.
>
> So bride … intended … witch … queen … all on the same spectrum of
> linguistic wackiness.
>
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