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clone-wars-retteyo-au · 7 months ago

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#Man I want a clone language #Something similar to amatakka or something #Please someone teach me how to create a language #And a culture #I beg you #All I want is big brother rex sing to his adorable little baby brothers in a super cool clone language <- OP's tags

Me: *Breathing heavily, shaking with anticipation to talk all about my ideas for a clone Galactic Basic-Mando'a Creole language with hundreds of words and phrase unique to clones that could not easily exist in other languages and is clone culture specific*

Me: *Remembers my pages of notes on an original clone sign language that becomes one of the main languages used in clone society in my AU and is a part of everyday language and I'm so proud of it*

Me: *Shaking like a maraca*

Okay, so I've read lots of fics where the clones speak mando'a, and actually I kind of liked the idea. But it's come to bother me that I get more and more of the feeling that the clones are presented as mandalorians and not their own culture.

The main problem I see is, that the clones aren't viewed as sentient life by most people, especially the kaminoans and their trainers, who, at the beginning of the whole cloning process, were nearly only mandalorians. Of course there were a few people like f.e. Kal skirata, who, if I remember correctly, actually adopted a bunch of clones, but let's be honest, that's not the case with most of the other trainers and especially not the kaminoans.

So, I've thought about it and I believe that it's not that improbable that the clones actually picked up quite a few words of mando'a. Maybe a few of the older clones were even thought a bit by some of the nicer mandalorian trainers. And imagine a few little clone cadets hearing those mandos talk in their own language - of course they'd want to learn it and share it with their brothers.

But most mandalorians that are on kamino don't even like the clones and definitely don't accept them as some of their own culture. So using mando'a in front of them could be dangerous and be punished. Talking your mind freely was dangerous enough as it is. The clones weren't supposed to have too much of their own free will, after all.

So they start developing their own words, their own language. It could be inspired by mando'a, but not too much. Because they weren't mandalorians, they weren't accepted by those people. They weren't accepted by anyone but their own brothers.

Not to mention that it was something of their own. Something they could claim and cling to and that belonged to only them when not even their own bodies and especially not their future belonged to themselves.

So in the middle of the night, after a too long, too painful training session, the clones would lie side by side with their brothers and comfort each other with their own words. Words that weren't used day by day to make them feel small and helpless, but words that were spoken softly and in a comforting and loving way.

The clones would also start developing their own sign language very early on. Not the classical military hand signs or something like bsl or asl or something, more like little movements of their heads and fingers. Maybe they'd use something similar to morse code as well.

They were mostly supervised and talking in your own language would be the worst thing you could do. None of the nat borns, especially none on kamino, could know, how much of their own free will they had. They'd risk being reconditioned for it.

So the clones would mostly communicate with very subtle signs. They grow more and more perceptive, especially when it comes to their brothers. For outsiders it might even look like they're barely moving a muscle while they have a full conversation going on.

The spoken language would be reserved for the few times they aren't directly supervised. Maybe older clones would cheer up the younger ones, that they find secretly crying and grieving, after yet another brother has been decommissioned for a stupid reason. They'd whisper softly to them in their own words - not the nat borns words. Never.

Some of the bolder clones might whisper in secret while in the mess hall and eating the same tasteless rations they've eaten for all of their cursed existence.

They'd develop stories to tell each other whenever possible. Stories that are of parents and their children, of flowers and trees, of funny animals that run around on wide fields and high mountains, stories of freedom. Of all the things they didn't have, but wished they did.

#also literally this whole blog is dedicated to me creating a whole clone culture and what their society (post war) would look like #based specifically on what we know about clones and their upbringing and whatnot #i'm actually going to release a post rambling all about this soon #specifically two separate posts all about the clone sign language #a lot of elements of the au are inspired by the fact that the clones have spent their lives training for the military #and thus it would be an important aspect of their lives whether they hate the war or not #so it influences the culture and other aspects of their society in a lot of ways #i remembered that military hand/arm signals are a thing and i find them to be pretty cool #so i thought it would be neat to impliment #and i went a little insane by creating a massive list of words and phrases they made specific hand/arm signals for #and then started working on a list of newer words/phrases that appeared after the war #and then a description of how these hand signals evolved and made their way into everyday life/speech #and now i've lost my mind working on the hand signal stuff because it's so fun and interesting #i'm going to be doing a lot more research on how both military hand signals and sign language works #i love and hate this #also the clone creole stuff has been pretty fun #it feels like just a logical next step to me #they would gradually begin fusing the two together #and they would definitely make up their own terms and phrases to describe clone-specific concepts and experiences #like they literally have 'natborns' as a thing (unless that's fanon and i'm just dumb?)#anyways op sorry for freaking out under your post i'm just really excited to talk about the fan language i've been working on today

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albertcaldwellne · 8 years ago

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Productivity Hack: 7 Tricks to Steal From the World’s Top Performers

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I agree.

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One of the biggest mistakes potential high-performers make is waiting until the morning to create a to-do list.

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7 . Model Other High Performers

This is not a definitive list of the rules that high performers follow, but it’s a good place for you to start so you can own your days and take back control of your life.

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