User talk:Yiuel

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I like your translations, but I have a few suggestions...

  • For 'elcarin', elcarin(e) would do fine
  • flaidois is perhaps too spelling-based. flédois would be closer phonetically. Or an even bolder choice might be flindois which would give you the right vowel (æ), though nasalized.
  • For 'Skourene', how about skourène? The English word is modelled on Greek loans with -ene, like Hellene-- I forget how French handles those. An alternative for the country name would be to use the modern name, perhaps as Chourie.
  • For 'Axunašin' and 'Xurnáš' (the languages), perhaps assunais. Zompist 10:02, 31 October 2006 (PST)
  • For elcarin(e), I like it as well, will change it.
  • French tends to follow spelling as well, but it might be good here to base myself over Verdurian usage here. However, the "ai" in "Flaidois" is actually pronounced close to "æ (normally, it is open e)"、at least in Quebec usage, which distinguishes more vowels than the French. Some (French) Montrealers will even have the tendency to anglicize the "ai" to the actual English vowel, giving the actual Flaidish vowel.
  • It is "hellène". So it should be "Skourène", indeed. However, "skourénique" (hellénique) would be used for the language. About Chourie, I think "Churie" could be better (again based on the idea that most "u" would tend to become " French u"), giving Churois. (I would avoid Churien, only for the fact that in Quebec Joual, it means "I am nothing"). I would used Skourénie for the old Skourene's land, and Churie for modern day Tzuro Skouras.
  • Assunais might be good, but I based Assunaïque on words like Aramaïque, Cyrénaïque. It also paralleles "Axunaic", the word to which I am used to. To give you a reference on usual usage in French, "Lachenaie", a city in Quebec, will give the adjective "Lachenois", that is Assunois. But I don't like it much, preffering Assunaïque, but Assunois could also be used. This can also be applied to Sarnaie, which would give Sarnois then. I like the playword with "Sournois" :P