Silver Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 Hello there,after lurking for a long time and marvelling especially about all your fantastic theories here, I decided to join up too.I once stumbled about a German copy of The Final Empire which was originally my father's, but was promptly assimilated into my very own bookshelf and joined by the other Mistborn books when I realised what a fantastic writer Brandon Sanderson is. Then I had to go and buy them all in English, because hey, if the german translation is great, how awesome must the original be?! I was right and therefore forever doomed to read more Sanderson books. How tragic.I picked up TWoK next and fell so much in love with it that I had to wait a long time before reading a book that was not actually part of The Stormlight Archive series - Steelheart (and Mitosis) thankfully didn't disappoint at all.Other than these I have not read other Sanderson books, but I'm working on that! Also I've got a bit general knowledge about all the cosmere stuff, but nothing too deep.Anything else to know about me - as I'm studying something vague medical-biological-sciency, I deeply appreciate all the thought and research that goes in Brandon's fantastic worldbuilding.I'm also someone who would read four books a week if there were enough interesting books and I had enough money for that. Instead I quite enjoy reading fanfiction but often find myself thinking "I could do much better". That leads me to my own writing which mostly exists in my head in the form of too many ideas and too less time or inspiration to write them down. Also I have the major problem of not knowing whether to write in German (my first language, but it strikes me as inconvenient and not elegant too often) or English (obviously not my first language which is in itself the problem, but so much more better sounding!).Oh well. I'm not sure if you wanted to know all that! 1
Shardlet he/him Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 Welcome, Silver. Glad to have you with us. As to English being your second language, you seem to have an excellent grasp of the grammar and If you had not said anything about it, I would have assumed English was your native tongue.
Swimmingly he/him Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 You could decide on a sentence by sentence basis! I'm sure that would cause very few headaches! 1
Silver Posted February 28, 2014 Author Posted February 28, 2014 (edited) Shardlet, thank you very much! I mostly read English books and watch English TV series, so I manage to be relatively fluent, although I stumble now and then about some sentence structures and stuff. You could decide on a sentence by sentence basis! I'm sure that would cause very few headaches! You're right, awesome idea - it would also greatly increase the potential readership! I have to admit my mind immediately kicked off for real and started to wonder whether it would be possible to write a story like this - where the sentences in one language make up a full story, the sentences in the other language make another and everything together makes yet another? Huh. Edited February 28, 2014 by Silver 1
Swimmingly he/him Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 Heh, if you got it published the translators would get a real headache trying to figure out how to make it work monolingually. I'm native in English and conversational in French myself, and I think a book like this would be a real treat for learning more French, because context. It would also make it quite a bit easier to switch back and forth between languages if I ever figured it out.
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