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Speak Eldraeic Like A Semi-Literate Barbarian (3.5): Some Érélar

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/10/14/speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian-3-5-some-erelar/

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Eldraeic Modifier of the Day: boz

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/09/01/eldraeic-modifier-of-the-day-boz/

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Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian (3): Descriptive Metaphors

https://eldraeverse.com/2023/03/13/speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian-3-descriptive-metaphors/

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But, well, maintaining the parallel is useful, even when it means you end up talking about the Pleasing Academy for Height-Challenged Young Women.

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Thus necessitating defining "pretty" more strictly (I went with delékith, "pleasing to the senses") and specifically excluding its secondary English sense of "quite a lot"; pointing out that calma specifically means "smol" and cannot mean "young"; and of course, schools don't exist, so it'll need to be alathyra, which can mean "institute", "academy", or "university".

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Assembling some words for my next Eldraeic grammar post, which will cover adjectives, or rather, using anesprel in an adjective-like manner.

This is made somewhat fun by the stock phrase for this, since sometime in the 60s, being "pretty little girls' school".

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Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian (1): Letters and Phonemes

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