The One Who Connects he/him Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 Just now, Calderis said: To add to your theory, Talik trained under Vstim, so other cultures even send their people to Thaylenah to learn the profession. So he did. Perhaps that's why he spoke Thaylen well enough for Rysn to think it was his first language, because of all those practice years.
DocHoliday he/him Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 I just want to point out something about the Thaylen language. The removal of vowels severely limits how many sounds you can produce, phonetically, in any given language. Anyone trying to read this post out loud, without the vowels, can grasp this concept. So it's really would not be surprising to me that names from Thaylen are coming from a limited pool. You are going to see a lot of repetitive combinations of "sounds". I'm going to plagiarize Game of Thrones for an example: Rhaegar, Rhaego, Rhaenerya, or Rhaeneys, etc. So all that being said, Mrall and Mraize having a similar structure didn't surprise me at all.
CaptainRyan he/him Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 3 hours ago, The One Who Connects said: Is Thaylenah a mercantile culture? One thing to add, is that Kaladin's father Lirin tells Kaladin that the Thaylen's are merchants and traders. From the kindle version of the Way of Kings location 2803: "They're [Thaylens] mostly tradesmen and merchants. Every one I've met has tried to swindle me [...]" - Lirin I think is a safe assumption that, for the most part, Thaylenah is a mercantile based society/culture.
The One Who Connects he/him Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 1 hour ago, CaptainRyan said: Kaladin's father Lirin tells Kaladin that the Thaylen's are merchants and traders. Yep. Calderis noted the same passage as you did a few days ago when he was doing his reread. (might've been in another thread.)
CaptainRyan he/him Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 17 minutes ago, The One Who Connects said: Yep. Calderis noted the same passage as you did a few days ago when he was doing his reread. (might've been in another thread.) Ooops! And it was only a few posts ago too. >< That's what I get for not rereading a thread before posting in it.
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