Yorth
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I recently went back to working on my conlangs after putting them off for the better part of a year. My plan was to use these languages to add more depth to the story and the world it is set in. I was going to make one for each major race, so five in total. But then as I start digging a bit deeper in the lore making process, one problem stood out to me immediately. How am I going to ever introduce the human language? You see, humanity is a major race in my world and as such should have its own constructed language according to the earlier plan, so am I supposed to write out all the dialogues in conlang? Well, that would be no good, now would it. So, what should I do? Just introduce specific words sparingly? That wouldn't work either as the characters in the story should be all talking in the constructed language while the reader is just reading a translated version of it. Thus, trying to point out any specific word will only break the suspension of disbelief.
In the end, I decided to drop the idea of having a constructed language for humans. In fact, all the races will default to English and only have a glimpse of their ancient language left in their dialect. The reason for this sudden shift is the conquest of humanity and their thousand-year rule over the world.
Moral of the story, don't go too crazy with conlangs.
In the end, I decided to drop the idea of having a constructed language for humans. In fact, all the races will default to English and only have a glimpse of their ancient language left in their dialect. The reason for this sudden shift is the conquest of humanity and their thousand-year rule over the world.
Moral of the story, don't go too crazy with conlangs.