Heaven's Vault Language Thread

[skysailor]

Dictionary II is updated!!! This is the final update before I go play the game some more. It has everything from my handwritten dictionary that seemed suitable for upload. Also, I hid the spoiler-containing column in the Uncertain tab, so you have to unhide to view. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[skysailor]

Prodding at the dictionary some more and thinking of some improvements to do for 3.0:

• Dissolving the distinction between cores and who-what-when-where-questions (5ws). While 5ws are interesting in the way they agglomerate meanings, they are more a subset of cores than a separate category, and the dictionary becomes a lot more condensed and easy-to-read if I move 5ws under cores.

• Just using other for neg/pl/back designations

• Putting a dotted line between word chunks so you can see how the word breaks out. For example, do know with|thing up. Do-know means to know, with is a scaffold that sticks the concepts together, and thing up means air. (In total, the word comes out as to know air, which means to hear.) Similar possibility is do know|with|thing up so it is clear that the with is not part of the do-know construction, but rather just glue sticking the constructions together.

• Adding a column where you can see all the elements of the word at once for easy reference since right now you can only see the words broken up into separate chunks.

• Just generally prodding at it to make sure it is condensed and aligned well.

[skysailor]

Dictionary III is up! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing It has all the changes I mentioned last post except the easy-reference column, because that requires some programming with my version of Excel and I haven't learned it yet.

[skysailor]

Just got confirmation in-game that all names have meanings. I had suspected this after realizing they all fit into the morpheme structure of spoken Ancient, which is why I put them in the Uncertain page of my dictionary. That is exciting!

[InspectorCaracal]

Just got confirmation in-game that all names have meanings. I had suspected this after realizing they all fit into the morpheme structure of spoken Ancient, which is why I put them in the Uncertain page of my dictionary. That is exciting!

Oooooooooooo