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2. Speaking of Guardian, I was diving into linguistic material, and the fact that the YOHE people all speak modern Mandarin is just WTF. Proto-Sino-Tibetan is only from 6k to 9k years ago, so even if we stretch that a bit, Shen Wei et al on the Upper Yangtze would be more likely to be saying "s.na" instead of "hǎo". (Meanwhile, their distant neighbors on the Caspian Steppes would be going “kērd ágʰnutor moi, dʰgʰmónm̥ éku̯ons ágontm̥ u̯idn̥téi”.)
3. 音阙诗听 continues being a gift. They just released a song for solar term 24 out of 24 (though they're missing 1, 2, and 5 – couldn't find them anywhere on the internet), and this solar term's song, 大寒 (Great Cold) has grown on me. I've been translating them for my personal entertainment, just so I get some idea of what they're about, and I think this is about a person who considers herself a hero ("let a big wave cleanse [all the world]") but with some tension about whether this is real, or if this is just a TV drama. That said, I do prefer the more upbeat ones, like 寒露 (Cold Dew), which is probably about sodding off from civilization to the jianghu to follow one's desires.
worldbuildingex. Come play? There are three Guardian sign-ups already!2. Speaking of Guardian, I was diving into linguistic material, and the fact that the YOHE people all speak modern Mandarin is just WTF. Proto-Sino-Tibetan is only from 6k to 9k years ago, so even if we stretch that a bit, Shen Wei et al on the Upper Yangtze would be more likely to be saying "s.na" instead of "hǎo". (Meanwhile, their distant neighbors on the Caspian Steppes would be going “kērd ágʰnutor moi, dʰgʰmónm̥ éku̯ons ágontm̥ u̯idn̥téi”.)
3. 音阙诗听 continues being a gift. They just released a song for solar term 24 out of 24 (though they're missing 1, 2, and 5 – couldn't find them anywhere on the internet), and this solar term's song, 大寒 (Great Cold) has grown on me. I've been translating them for my personal entertainment, just so I get some idea of what they're about, and I think this is about a person who considers herself a hero ("let a big wave cleanse [all the world]") but with some tension about whether this is real, or if this is just a TV drama. That said, I do prefer the more upbeat ones, like 寒露 (Cold Dew), which is probably about sodding off from civilization to the jianghu to follow one's desires.
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Date: 2020-01-27 02:47 (UTC)Blame the spaceship? I mean, their clothes and weapons aren't exactly paleolithic either. ;-) (That's interesting, though, about what languages were spoken when.)
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Date: 2020-01-27 08:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-27 09:41 (UTC)Yesss!!
Highly accurate portraits, nonetheless!! Otoh, there are also four people (that we know of) who've lived since Ma Gui's time, plus canon time travel, so. I just have to keep reminding myself that Haixing ≠ Earth -- it just has a lot of coincidental similarities.
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Date: 2020-01-27 10:56 (UTC)I mean, technically, yes, but Shen Wei was preoccupied taking a nap and somehow I doubt Ye Zun or Da Qing would expend much effort painting portraits of Ma Gui, which just leaves Zhang Shi. I suppose it'd be an "everyone pls notice sempai" moment of epic proportions...
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Date: 2020-01-27 19:36 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-27 19:46 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-27 19:51 (UTC)The more I think about it, the more I think the portrait could just as easily have been painted by Shen Wei as Zhang Shi, though. The Envoy could have presented it to Haixing as a gesture of friendship when he first started working with the SID, with the subtext of "I knew and fought alongside your ancestors"...?
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Date: 2020-01-28 09:34 (UTC)