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#Lucie was adopted at birth and never learned the languag!! i didn't have to deal with that!!
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ugh i need to make a mermaid conlang
#I wordvomited a spinoff of Lucie to my friend over text a few nights ago
#and it involves.... a mermaid character
#I mean Lucie does as well BUT
#Lucie was adopted at birth and never learned the languag!! i didn't have to deal with that!!
#“but manti just Don't Do That” absolutely not
#i can't name characters without a basic understanding of their background/language
#i've been trying to think of how a mermaid language would work
#like literally at the phonetic level
#would they have vowels and consonants??
#or are the phonemes more like
#dolphin chirping and/or whale song
#it would probably be at least a LITTLE tonal because yk sound carries thru water
#but tonal languages scare me a bit (bcs they are cool and complex and i am too dumb)
#my mermaids are bioluminscent but I think the light signals would be like... gestures
#not actually words
#I also played with the idea of music-as-language
#(so like... notes carrying lexical meaning)
#which is a cool concept but i do NOT have the time to develop it into smth I can use!!
#I just want to be able to make enough of this language that I can realistically name characters
#is that too much to ask
#writing
#lol
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