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  1. TheJ.R.Douglas
    For whatever reason, I guess it’s tangentially related, this reminded me that PPAP exists Pen Pineapple Apple Pen, for anyone reading this who doesn’t know, is a song about how the Japanese just be shunting words together to make up new words
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    If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, Duolingo has a pretty good system for practicing Kanji. Even if you don’t vibe with the regular lessons, the Kanji practice is pretty solid. You get to read, listen, and practice writing them. Another small point, because Japanese uses particles, you can mess with the structure of sentences ever so slightly. But that can get confusing because of how we structure sentences in English. I found it fascinating when I first started taking Japanese classes. Bah, but anyway, I’ll be following this thread now. I love Japanese, language and culture both.
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    What does it mean to mean tho?
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    Johnny Depp for Hoid, anyone? He is a master of disguise
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    I wish it were I’m just a nut job, unfortunately, and thought my naming convention was clever Sorry for getting your hopes up Maybe one day when I’m not so embarrassed by how quickly I jumped the gun on this post I will revise it and change the title to reflect Happy Holidays by the way, one and all
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    No no, you misunderstood. Perhaps I need to return to my drawing board
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    You're right. I perhaps should have refined this down into a more concise format... The real theory is that, It has been some time since I read that, I had forgotten it was described that way. And I appreciate you linking that WoB, my remembrance of them can be shoddy, and I should probably have done more research. I definitely did not have the proper definition for corrupt investiture... Also didn't know about his WoB, thank you again.
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    Possible Spoilers Ahead! If you aren’t caught up on the Cosmere beware! Also, I apologize for grammatically inconsistencies, I copied this straight from my notes app because I wanted to get this out there before DS Nexus. Also not sure if this theory is already out there. Thoughts? I know I’ve raised more questions than answers, but that’s what WoBs are for, right?
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    UPDATE!!! With World Con fast approaching I’ve been revising my pitch, and I think I’ve settled on one that works! I asked a bunch of friends what they thought of various different pitches I can up with and the following is the winner! What do you folks think? This next one was the runner up
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    Hey all! I’m watching this one YouTube this morning I’m writing this, and when Brandon unveiled his story idea I just… well you’ll see. Ever heard the saying “infinite monkeys…”? Very basically it’s that no idea is original, and if you’ve thought of it then it’s been thought of before by someone else. Brandon dreamed himself up a story where Dracula is back in the far future and a woman having an archive of old media properties has to summon them to fight him. I stopped when I got about six minutes in to write this. Anyway I literally have a story idea placeholder in my pages folder of my iPad for what I called “The Public Domain Heist”. Slightly different from Brandon’s in the sense it’s a person summoning public domain characters like Dracula, Winnie the Pooh, Moriarty, Peter Pan, etc. to steal a first edition of a book. And that’s when I started thinking about infinite monkeys and thought to see if any of you folks have had a similar experience? I just find it funny
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    I used Microsoft Copilot to do mine, and I found you have to be very precise in your wording to get what you want. If you like, I can share the prompt that I fed it to give you and everyone else a head start. Otherwise once I finish fiddling with the program and polishing it up, I will probably share it regardless. If I can get it to where it will do multiple languages, I think it could help a lot of people
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    UPDATE I found an interesting solution… since generating literally any word using the Japanese Consonant-vowel pair alphabet was giving me so much trouble, I turned to technology. I had remembered there was a program that Mary-Robinettw Kowal had mentioned on an early episode of Writing Excuses that could come up with words, I can’t remember the name and I have looked previously and never found it. I would write one of these myself but my coding skills are basic at best. So, naturally, I asked an AI to right it for me. Now… I realize this might be taboo, since there is a lot of uproar involving AI and its thieving people’s work, however I felt like having it write a program to make up fake words was acceptable since I made up the initial word set that it’s basing everything else on. Well it worked. Sort of. I have some minor issues with their first incarnation of the program, but I’ve found ways to improve it drastically. It works so well in fact that I think if you replace the bits of code that specifically work to make the words generated more Japanese sounding, you could pretty much generate a language to sound however you want. Assuming you do the work to come up with a decent number of words it can feed off of first
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    I determined I need to create about 80 words I’ve come up with about 30 already, but 11 of those are numbers that won’t even appear in this novel I’m definitely not going to create my own grammar, that’s just too much. I’m using Japanese grammar, and the alphabet with a few exclusions. Plus I have an intermediate Japanese grammar book from my college days for reference The larger issue is that I don’t like the sounds of words I make so it’s hard to settle on one for translation. It took me forever to decided to use ‘Yiji’ to mean mountain (the Japanese is ‘Yama’). ‘Tatsu’ for river (kawa/gawa) Maybe the problem is my closeness to the Japanese language. My insecurity with my ability to create something that I feel doesn’t do it a disservice. Or maybe I’m just tripping lol
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    Anything is helpful, thank you! I had a friend who took Latin. I salute you, she told me it wasn’t easy
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    I had a couple of Spanish classes in high school. But I college I did 4 classes of Japanese language and 3 different Japanese history and culture classes. Yourself?
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