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My thoughts exactly, Titan. When more people catch on to the same thing, it does strengthen my belief that our reasoning is sound, and I'd say that second tweet from Peter really drives it home that we might be on to something. Man-oh-man, but I really do hope someone gets the chance to ask Brandon about SoScad linguistics...!

You're not the only one who's noticed this! I'm Norwegian myself, and wrote about in another thread a few months ago: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/52595-bands-spoilers-the-lost-metal/#entry396317 Oh, and just a correction to your original post (that I also wrote about in that earlier post). "Hanner konge?" wouldn't translate to "male king", but to "He is king?" or "He is a king?" depending on the intonation used when asking the question. But glad I'm not the only one who caught this linguistic tidbit! And love the fact that you tweeted Peter about it.

You're very welcome! I've been reading these forums for ages, so I'm just happy to be able to contribute to them, even if said contribution is highly speculative. Also very happy that my idea makes sense to someone other than me! I'm actually with skaa up above there in thinking that the lost metal probably refers to Atium, though, and that Ettmetal and Harmonium are the same thing, just not lost. So excited to see where Brandon takes this!

Hey guys! Okay, so I'm totally new to this forum thing, but I just devoured BoM and SH in a single day, and I had a couple of ideas based on linguistics that might provide some insight into the whole Ettmetal/lost metal thing. You see, one thing I noticed when reading BoM is that the Southerner's language patterns seem to be somewhat derivative of our own Scandinavian languages - some words are even directly translatable (I'm Norwegian, which is why I noticed it), while others just bear similar linguistic patterns. For instance, when Allik talks about the "Jaggenmire", he mentions that the Jaggenmire is composed of Herr and his sister/wife Frue, which in the Scandi-languages translate directly to Mr. and Mrs, and makes complete in-world sense as well. Or when Allik first recognizes Wax as an Allomancer, he says "Hanner konge?", which would more or less translate from Scandi to English as "He is a king?" - which again makes total sense considering how Allik pretty much sees Wax as a godlike being from there on out. Anyway, this is all just grasping at linguistic straws on my part, but! If I follow this little "theory" even further and apply it to Ettmetal, and translate that, then we get "The Onemetal". To me, anyway, "The Onemetal" implies something that is one - something unified - which obviously brings loads of associations to Harmony with it. But hey, I'm new to this and it might not make much sense to anyone but me!