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A community for the dragon language of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Thuum.org

A community for the dragon language of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Really Big Cat
July 6, 2018

How much more polished is the language now than when it was first conceived?

I know that the Bethesda devs weren't linguists and so they approached the language from a newbie's perspective, which is why the language is just a 1:1 translation of English. But has the community expanded and changed the language so it is more like a real conlang?

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Volziinos Zahkr
July 8, 2018
Well, when it comes to Legacy (non-canon), one could say it has grown into a 1:1 translation game, however, no important changes have been made to the canon language since Skyrim was released. The way canon is USED definitely has evolved, in my opinion; people have learned that they need to think about solutions to translations before they just give up and move to Legacy to take an easy way. After that, it is quite the same.