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Does anyone have More information on how to speak High Imperial I read the coppermind page on it but am wanting more does anyone have a working translator, I have learned a little and it is amazing to see non-readers reactions to talking like this and I want more. wanting the learning of speaking, Hasing the knowing?

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1 hour ago, StormBlessed101 said:

Does anyone have More information on how to speak High Imperial I read the coppermind page on it but am wanting more does anyone have a working translator, I have learned a little and it is amazing to see non-readers reactions to talking like this and I want more. wanting the learning of speaking, Hasing the knowing?

Have you read the Annotation translations for the 4-person conversation in TFE Ch 24? The Coppermind page has the dialog, but not the Annotation translation. 

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Annotation to TFE Ch 24:

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Brandon Sanderson

If you hate Spook's dialect, I apologize for this chapter. This is the place in the book where I spent the most time on it. I really like some of the phrases here–I tried to make the dialect focus on rhythm and sounds, making it alliterative and interesting simply to say out-loud. In case you need it, here's a loose translation of the exchange in this chapter:

  • Spook frowned. “Niceing the not on the playing without.”
    • Spook: "It's not nice to play with people like that."
  • “I have no idea what you just said, child,” Breeze said. “So I’m simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.”
  • Kelsier rolled his eyes. “Losing the stress on the nip,” he said. “Notting without the needing of care.”
    • Kelsier: "Oh, don't worry about what he does to you. He's not worth your concern."
  • “Riding the rile of the rids to the right,” Spook said with a nod.
    • Spook: "You're probably right."
  • “What are you two babbling about?” Breeze said testily.
  • “Wasing the was of brightness,” Spook said. “Nip the having of wishing of this.”
    • Spook: "He wants to be clever. He pushes people around because he wants to prove that he is clever."
  • “Ever wasing the doing of this,” Kelsier agreed.
    • Kelsier: "He's always been like that."
  • “Ever wasing the wish of having the have,” Ham added with a smile. “Brighting the wish of wasing the not.”
    • Ham: "He's insecure. I think he worries that he's really not that clever."
Mistborn: The Final Empire Annotations (Feb. 16, 2007)

 

It's unlikely we will get much more High Imperial information, much less enough for full translation. Luckily, it's meant to be vague neough you can mostly just make it up as you go. WoB:

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Spriy

I've been wondering if the Ars Arcanum for Mistborn 7 will include a guide to speaking High Imperial.

Brandon Sanderson

No promises, I'm afraid. I like the rules for High Imperial being kind of vague.

General Reddit 2021 (May 31, 2021)

 

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16 hours ago, StormBlessed101 said:

Does anyone have More information on how to speak High Imperial I read the coppermind page on it but am wanting more does anyone have a working translator, I have learned a little and it is amazing to see non-readers reactions to talking like this and I want more. wanting the learning of speaking, Hasing the knowing?

You could also read through the High Imperial Academy topic, it might have some additional info

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