Fëanor & Linguistics

[atlantablack]

Woke up this morning and quite literally the first thing I did, half-asleep, before even getting out of my bed, was google “can you combine two languages linguistics” because I woke up thinking about Fëanor and what kind of nonsense he might get up to in 4th Age Aman and was like damn I wonder if he would improve Sindarin just to annoy Thingol or combine it with Quenya or - anyway apparently that’s not a thing and I read an interesting article on what happens when two communities with different native languages combine but still - what a way to start the day.

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[atlantablack]

No wait that's so interesting! The page I read was about Pidgin and creole and I was half-asleep and gave up on comprehending it half-way through haha but yeah! I would assume Sindarin and Quenya are directly related since the people who speak them used to be one group of people!

I had kind of already decided to just let Fëanor do it anyway because like he is himself and if anyone can do it he would be the one lol but I love knowing that it's actually possible!

Also I am so impressed by anyone who studied linguistics, it sounds like such an incomprehensible subject to me whenever I read anything about it

[desecrets]

Yesss it is interesting! (And you should totally write that fic :D)

I think of linguistics as like, the closest you can get to doing maths or 'hard science' while still in the humanities, lol. At least when you get into things like mechanisms of language change/sound change etc, because a lot of that is just, Input in -> Linguistic rule applies -> Predictable output out. (And also because if you don't know the terminology it just looks like nonsense.) I thought that part was quite fun, but there are definitely branches of linguistics I understand zip of.