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#‘[insert name of conlang deity here]’s ass!’ ‘by the [conlang virgin mary]!’ ‘may the spirits damn him to fairy-hell!’ nice try.

wrishwrosh · 7 months

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i like when fantasy characters say “okay” because it implies the existence of some kind of elven martin van buren

#reading a pop linguistics book abt the history of american english and having a ball #language is very silly #this is not even one of my top worldbuilding things to get annoyed about #but a) its always funny and b) i think getting granular about language in this particular way is productive and more authors should do it #the medieval fantasy swearing problem of replacing ‘god’ with ‘spirits’ and calling it a day #‘[insert name of conlang deity here]’s ass!’ ‘by the [conlang virgin mary]!’ ‘may the spirits damn him to fairy-hell!’ nice try.#read abt the history of oaths in english and get back to me

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