High Imperial Academy

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50 minutes ago, Tellingdwar said:

Wasing the much of appreciating the this. Back when time was being the having, running the games of adventuring on tops of tables. Wasing the writing of wording for NPC name of Chanowitz on the weeks. Doing the practicing of the this with frequenting giving the skill.

Wasing the making of perfecting when doing the practicing of the this. Thems doing the teaching should doing the assigning of the working whens at the home.

WOW.

[Channelknight Fadran]

Lesson Number Four: Words of Brandon.

I'm going to translate High Imperial in Mistborn to english through the processes of actual translation to rough translation. Hopefully this will help all of us get a feel for how the language is translated.

“Niceing the not on the playing without.”

According to Sanderson, this means "It's not nice to play with people like that." The first thing we can immediately decode is "Niceing the not," which can be translated to "Not niceing" or "Not nice" or "Isn't nice." The words "on the" is simply a segue, and can be ignored. "Playing" can be translated to "Play doing," which of course is gibberish but in short just means "to play." The word "Without" is just an elongated "With," as High Imperial tends to throw things onto words for complicated-ness. What we have is "It's not nice to play with." Seeing as how the subject is always yourself, you can probably say "It's not nice to play with me." This is as close as a translation as we can come. If another person can understand High Imperial (and there's some context), then they're likely to understand you.

“Losing the stress on the nip. Notting without the needing of care.”

This means “Oh, don’t worry about what he does to you. He’s not worth your concern.” This sentence is a bit of an oddball, because its subject is "you" without specifying this. If we were to translate it directly, it would mean "Lose your stress about him," which could become "Don't worry about him." I figured this out by looking through further quotes, and the word "nip" seems to mean "he" or "she" or "them." It denotes an "other." As for the second sentence, we can translate "Notting without the needing of care" to "Not with needing of care," which'll become "Not needing care." You could roughly translate this to "Doesn't need your care." In the end, this means "Don't worry about him. He doesn't need your care." Based on this sentence, it seems as though if you've specified a subject, you don't have to re-specify that subject in further sentences.

“Ever wasing the wish of having the have. Brighting the wish of wasing the not.”

“He’s insecure. I think he worries that he’s really not that clever.” This quote by Hammond is genius, to say the least. He spoke High Imperial like an Azish: Giving the least information possible in the longest possible way. The first sentence "Ever wasing the wish of having the have" can first be translated to "Ever was doing the wish of having." That can be further translated to "Ever wishes of having." Because they have context of who the subject is, he doesn't have to specify it is "He" or "Nip" who they're talking about. "Wishes of having" is loose, but basically means "Wishes he had something," which can, in theory, be translated to "insecure." The word "Ever" means "always," so the first sentence means "He's always insecure." The next sentence, "Brighting the wish of wasing the not," has a new vocabulary word that I need to identify: "Brighting." This word means "Clever," as the term "Bright" is sometimes associated with the word "Smart." So this sentence roughly means "Was doing the wishing that he's not clever" or "He wishes he isn't clever." I'm not entirely sure how the word "Wishes" is translated into "Worries," but it's important to note the when High Imperial was first devised, it was designed to make no sense whatsoever.

“Wasing not of wasing is.”

This is just the perfect quote to impress your friend with!

[NameIess]

Thinking the not of the needing this class.

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This class of the helping of the lot! Thanking of the you.

[Light In the Darkness]

Wasing the wishing of the joining of learning. Seeming of cool, notting without the wasing of needing the using. Wishing the hoping for learning of next.

[Channelknight Fadran]

Wasing the day of winning because chip of teaching! Thanking of learning!

 

And I haven't forgotten @Tellingdwar's suggestion to make assignments. I made a google classroom for those of you who really want to learn High Imperial. Everything I post will be optional because... well, you have no obligation to join in the first place.

Class code: 7kwe3n2

Edited May 19, 2020 by Channelknight Fadran

[Shard of Reading he/him]

14 hours ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

Wasing not of wasing is.”

This is just the perfect quote to impress your friend with!

Technically this means nothing.

[Channelknight Fadran]

2 minutes ago, Shard of Reading said:

Technically this means nothing.

Wasing the brightness of Shard of Reading.

[Shard of Reading he/him]

1 minute ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

Wasing the brightness of Shard of Reading.

I obviously need to reread your previous posts because I have no idea what that means.

[Channelknight Fadran]

11 minutes ago, Shard of Reading said:

I obviously need to reread your previous posts because I have no idea what that means.

Roughly translated, that means "Shard of Reading is smart." However, literally translated, it means something more along the lines of "Shard of Reading was doing clever," which I personally think is hilarious.

[Experience he/him]

Hoping the joining of learning. (I think that's right. In case it's not, I would like to join.)

[Shard of Reading he/him]

2 minutes ago, Experience said:

Hoping the joining of learning. (I think that's right. In case it's not, I would like to join.)

I can understand it so that probably means it is actually gibberish. (Because I can't understand High Imperial.)

[Channelknight Fadran]

58 minutes ago, Experience said:

Hoping the joining of learning. (I think that's right. In case it's not, I would like to join.)

You just need to change that first word to "Wishing." And be sure to add your "wasing"s in there!

"Wasing the wishing of the learn joining."

[Experience he/him]

Wasing the wishing of the better saying. (or would it be 'of the saying better'?)

Edited May 19, 2020 by Experience

[Channelknight Fadran]

16 minutes ago, Experience said:

Wasing the wishing of the better saying. (or would it be 'of the saying better'?)

How you order your words isn't actually that big of a deal. Remember the bullet from SoS? "Wasing the where of needing" could also be said as "Wasing the needing of where." Just be sure to have your important stuff in there and you're good.

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On 5/19/2020 at 8:11 AM, Channelknight Fadran said:

I made a google classroom for those of you who really want to learn High Imperial. Everything I post will be optional because... well, you have no obligation to join in the first place.

Class code: 7kwe3n2

I'm trying to join, but it isn't working.

[Channelknight Fadran]

@Enter a username I made a new class code: ypocgdf. See if that works.

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Notting of the working. : (

Edited May 20, 2020 by Enter a username
Autocorrect wasing of the annoying

[Channelknight Fadran]

I could send it to you via email but if you don't want to disclose that on a public stream then that's okay. Otherwise, I have no idea.

[Mage he/him]

Sign me up. This is awesome! Thanks @Channelknight Fadran for putting this together.

[Mage he/him]

I also have a few questions. Is wasing spelled with 1 S or 2 like wassing? Also, is ising not a word because everything is in past tense? And last question, how do you indicate a subject other than yourself?

Edited May 20, 2020 by Mage

[Experience he/him]

@Channelknight Fadran, is there a link to the classroom. 

[Channelknight Fadran]

Wasing is spelled with one "S" and yes, I'm aware my first "Wasings" were spelled "Wassing." A simple mistake, but confusing nonetheless. Welcome to the Academy, and specifying a new subject should come at the end of the sentence. "Wasing the knowing on the nip" means "He knows."

Also @Experience I thought there would be, but I can't seem to find one. I'll post it if I do.

Edit: This is the direct URL to the classroom that I ctrl+c'ed out of the search bar. I'm willing to bet that it won't work, but it's worth a try: https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/MTA0MDg3MDA0OTYz

Edited May 20, 2020 by Channelknight Fadran

[Experience he/him]

wasing the ofing of the code?

[Channelknight Fadran]

Wasing the having the have. Issing "ypocgdf" on the code.