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Hello and welcome to King Taurus' Guide To Tyrannia A guide to Tyrannian Culture and Language |
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Language Tyrannian Language is a primitive speech, it is a very complicated concept to grasp at first but it is actually very easy and there certainly isn't much vocab to learn! I will provide 5 lessons on this page. Lesson1 Shopkeeper Greetings Explained Lesson2 Write your Own Shopkeeper Greeting Lesson 3 Grammar and Vocab Lesson 4 Decipher A "Story" Lesson 5 Write Your Own "Story" |
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Lesson 1 Shop Keeper Greetings Explained Food Shop Man "Uggh-Ugga-Ugg!" Ok, you walk into tryrannia, the first place you head is the food shop and when you enter you get a shop keeper shouting primative insults at you. This is Not The Case Uggh - Get Ugga- Go Ugg - Food Get-Go-Food Still doesn't make sense does it? The word Ugga can be used in the context Come, and in fact, usually is! So now it is Get-Come-Food which seems even harder. Use your common sense! Change the order of two of the words and it is almost perfect English. Come Get Food! Furniture Shop Man "Ahh-aka-aka-gal!" Ok, so now you go into the furniture shop (dung is SO this season) and there's a lazy lump of a dinosaur talking in his sleep. This is Not The Case Ahh - Hello (formal) or Ahhh (relaxed sound, informal) Aka - Pet Gal- Sell Hello-pet-pet-sell By the looks of it, this dude is not selling PetPets. So how? You may ask, does that my sense. Don't worry my friend. In aka-aka the second aka is stressed, and for that reason in these lessons we will spell it áká. The stress indicates that this is in first person (it is the same with any word). So.... aka-áká means pet in the first person which obviously means me or I. So now it is Hello-I-Sell like as if we didn't know that but that shop keeper is one lazy old grarrl (like many tyrannians) but you get understand what he means by his surroundings. So in conclusion... Hello, I sell! Tyrannian Weaponary "Gál-aka-fyar!!!" Ok, so you go to the weaponary shop hoping to by a sword to help defeat evil in neopia. As soon as you enter you have a loopy kougra jumping at you shouting battle cries. This is Not The Case So we know gál is I sell, aka is pet but what is fyar? Its Fire duh! So he is now saying I Sell-Pet-Fire. And.... NO he is not trying to get your pet into bad habits (playing with fire.. tut tut... HEY STOP STARING ACCUSINGLY AT ME!!), well to cut a long story short Fire is Dangerous Weapons are dangerous and Tryrannians are very lazy so they just couldn't be bothered inventing a word for weapon so they decided they could mean the same thing! In conclusion.... "I sell your pet weapons!" Pet Pet Guy "Gal-aka-áká-bo! Nah-de!" So your pet has always wanted a likkle baby dino to play with. So you go into the Petpet shop. An eccentric mamoth is shoving petpets down your nose and making noises that sound like he is having a fit. This is Not The Case So far we know what Gal-aka-áká is I sell and now I will tell you a little about bo. In this context it means Petpet, but it can be used to describe anything small, the "grammatically correct" Tyrannian (if I had a penny for every one of them, I'd be bankrupt!) would say the "official" word for petpet is aka-bo or bo-aka depending on the taste of the user. So now we have the first sentence, it means I sell petpets (there is no marker for plurality) Now.. Nah is No or a marker of Negativity and De means starvation but in this context it can mean shortage. I sell pet-pets! There isn't a shortage! Conclusion of Lesson 1 Tyrannian is a language that can be altered to suit one's personality or mood. This is actually quite useful because you can tell everything about a person just by listening to them sleep. You can tell the furniture shop keeper is very lazy because he didn't say much just: "Hello, I sell" While the pet-pet Elephante was obviously very eccentric and chatty because he talked for two whole sentences (GASP)
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Lesson 2 Write Your Own Shopkeeper Greeting Ok, to do this, you have got to think... What is my shopkeepers personality? What does he sell? And So on. Lets say, your shop was a variety shop with a grey pet as a shop keeper. Ok he's not going to be very eccentric or want to talk. Here is an example of what he might say. "Gal aka-aka (bo)." "I sell (but not much)" This basically makes the reader think, oh he doesn't want me in his shop. This is why I advise not to have a Tyrannian speaking grey pet. Here are a few examples on personalities: A Reading Shop Keeper - Mumbles, yet says quite a lot. Farmer - Quite Advertising Dr Death - Just plain scary Playing Music - Might talk very loud, try using caps. |
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Lesson 3 - Grammar and Vocab Firstly Let me go into the word a- gah... very hard to explain. It symbolises re-doing things, (a kind of plurality marker for verbs.) Eg. A-Ugga - go back. A-Gal means Re-sell. If you put it at the end of a word it makes it have the opposite meaning, eg. Gal-a is Buy, Bo-a is Big, Graguda-a (start) is end or finish. A sentence can be as muddled up as one wishes, though in-appropriately bad grammar can confuse others. This is my advice Write it in an English style grammar Extra Vocab!
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