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▲It is the eastern slang that Spook spoke before the [[Final Ascension]] of Harmony. After the ascension of Harmony, High Imperial turned from an eastern street slang into a scholarly, formal language that was rarely used outside of important legal documents.
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| One thing about High Imperial, or Eastern Street Slang, is that it was devised by those who spoke it in order to be intentionally obtuse. So it was hard for people to understand. And so there are a lot of nonsense words thrown in the middle. But, it's also got reversed grammar. 'Wasing the wanting of doing the thing' is 'I wanted to do that.' But you can also throw random words in there. As long as those parts are in there, it'll make sense to those they're speaking to. 'I wanted to do this. Wasing the wanting of doing the thing.' You're putting everything into a gerund. You're starting with the verb and the tense. And you're turning everything into ridiculously bad gerunds. That's it in brief.
| Brandon Sanderson on making sense of High Imperial{{
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|Wasing the always of wanting of knowing.
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Losing the stress on the nip. Notting without the needing of care. - Kelsier<br>
Riding the rile of the rids to the right.<br>
** If you must refer to the subject do so at '''the end'''.
* Use '''nicknames for people''', the language is based off moving the structure of a sentence into as many ''confusing manners'' as possible. In fact, using a '''nickname of a nickname''' is best. For example, Spook uses the nickname Nip to refer to Breeze, which is in itself a nickname.
* ''Adjectives'' come '''first''', Then ''verbs'', even if you form them as nouns
** The longer the sentence is it becomes '''symmetrical'''.
** Remember it '''TAV-GuN; Nug VAT''' Those in parenthesis (see above) ''can be swapped'' around with each other.
*** I don't know where the
* It's better to use '''
* '''Don't use possessives''' unless they are formed as ''adjectives''.
Guide dictated by Lady Amdin, written by Sir Kit
== Trivia ==
* The dialect's grammatical rules are intentionally vague.{{wob ref|14727}}
* High Imperial was inspired by a person Brandon knew from the [[Timewasters Guide]] forums, who sometimes posted random gibberish that, upon close inspection, turned out to be rather poetic.{{wob ref|2378}}
== Notes ==
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