October 8th, 2012
You can vote for Runewriters to see a couple more semi-relevant silly doodles.
ALSO! If you're going to be at New York Comic Con this coming weekend, keep an eye out for me in the Artist Alley! I'll be there with Zimmay and apparently at table T15, WHATEVER THAT MEANS. It should be super fun! And no worries, the update next week should go up like normal in my absence. *u*
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Aww, thanks! :")
But no, the ash isn't solely from Old English -- a bunch of different languages use it! (and it's pronounced differently in almost every one haha). In Varænske, as mentioned in the FAQ, it's pronounced about how you'd expect it to be from reading Jonan's writing here. c:
(Though I am curious how it's pronounced in Old English!)
posted at 3:24am on October 8th, 2012
Man, it's actually hard to try and communicate what it sounds like without saying it... still, let's try!
A bit like a dodgy Russian accent when coupled with modern English sounds. If it was in an old English context, it makes a sound a lot like just mashing a and e together. Or just an 'ee' sound in some regional accents. But those accents were basically ancient day Welsh, so we ignore them.
EXAMPLE TIME: "Hwaet, ic swefna rihtwrítereas edníwe tramet"
(That says "Behold, I see [a] new [Rune]writers page" roughly.)
Anything in square brackets is something I had to add. They weren't big on the word "a". Or ever really said "Runewriters." Rihtwrítereas actually means "truth writer" in literal translation.
Anyway, "hwaet", the important word there, has a soft 'hw' sound which flows into the 'ae' combo sound, before ending in a hard 't'.
...That was an awful explanation. But yeah. IT SOUNDS LIKE A NOISE MADE IN A DEAD LANGUAGE. Also, Old English is a hell of a lot prettier as a language than current English. It just takes a good 3 weeks to learn the basics :/
posted at 5:03am on October 8th, 2012
wow, and here I was thinking "Man, is poor Jonan so angry, that he misspelled "and" to "end"?"
Also, do you somehow save these fonts in some font format or do you always have to hand-draw all the dialogue?
posted at 8:46am on October 8th, 2012
Nope, I don't use any fonts! It's all digitally-by-hand. c:
posted at 11:48am on October 8th, 2012
Your wrists have my sympathy - and my admiration.
posted at 5:09pm on October 12th, 2012
Comment by Commander Fabulous
Being at table T-15 means that is going to be made out of one or more of the things on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T15
TANK TABLE.
Also, I really like the speech bubble for Jonan's writing. Is the letter at the start of the word "And" supposed to be an AE from Old English? 'Cause that's pretty cool, even if pronunciation would make it sound a bit silly :P (Sorry, English student, I know these things)
posted at 2:26am on October 8th, 2012