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For the rest of my days I'm going to be calling Tolkien "Linguistics Georg" and nobody is ever going to have any idea what I'm talking about
Pulsar
I’m glad to see that so many other writers have been running into this exact problem, at least
Gray Writes!
The trouble with being a fantasy writer for me is where to draw the line with regard to orphaned etymology — obviously you can’t have characters say “Jesus Christ!” in a world where Jesus never existed, but does using words like “democracy” imply the existence of Ancient Greece??
