#WritersCoffeeClub 25 How frequently do other languages (or conlangs) appear in your writing?
Non-English languages appear frequently in my English creative writing because I write mostly about non-Anglophone people. The #Translation Conventions and choices made in rendering, say, ancient Koreanic dialects or ancient Chinese into modern English is a whole song and dance of itself. I've mostly settled on sounding out names in their reconstructed phonetics (e.g. Nurudal) but sometimes give their meanings ("Rolling Rises") for information and resonance. I also take elements of grammar and expression from the source languages to give color and freshness to the English lines (e.g. "It's been fully three suns since word was out..."). I feel like a lot of my work is translation of texts that don't exist 馃槄 #HistoricalFiction #language