Amazeroth wrote:I've written to IdioC about the dictionary, but there's no guarantee he'll answer of course.
Lucky I was having a look through for nostalgia's sake when Amazeroth dropped me a line. I was combining two servers and admittedly wasn't expecting it to still be in use... There's a new modified (tidied) version up: http://www.idioc.co.uk/Jelbic-0.1.1.txt and as before there's a UTF-8 version at http://www.idioc.co.uk/Jelbic-0.1.1%20UTF8.txt
Reddy wrote:One of the greatest innovations in Particracy is the Jelbic language - an entirely in-game language. I respect it deeply but IMO it has restricted cultural development and appreciation in the Jelbic speaking world, and few players there seem to bother with it much... Now I have a proposal: We should turn Jelbic into the ordinary RL Turko-Mongol family of languages. We would not have to abolish the current language not to retcon anything, the culture and history would remain the same. It would be much easier to RP if you don't have to create new words half the time but instead just look up a word on an online dictionary.
Firstly, I'm flattered!
Secondly, I had to keep it short to keep it accessible and agree that this was a limitation.
Finally, I should tell you that you're doing what I always hoped someone would when I first put Jelbic/Jelbék together. Even in the early days of the language, players used the grammar in a different way to my original intentions and inadvertantly made different flavours of it for their own nations, but that is how language evolves. Bringing in a new vocabulary on top to diversify it into nation-specific languages, cultures and identities is the way forward.
I don't anticipate updating my version of the dictionary much more ("Old High Jelbic" if you will) as I shouldn't be the one who dictates its future direction. In Particracy terms, that'd be akin to an early Saxon updating Urban Dictionary.