Difference between revisions of "High Imperial"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Quotes
(Fixed syntax error in the quote in the introduction.) |
(→Quotes) Tags: Mobile web edit Mobile edit |
||
| (6 intermediate revisions by 6 users not shown) | |||
|
|era=Post-Catacendre
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Mistborn (series)]]
}}{{update|book=mb5}}
▲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.
{{quote
{{quote
|Wasing the always of wanting of knowing.
| Ups in the where above the doing▼
|The words etched on the gates of Elendel University{{book ref|mb5|5}}
}}
{{quote
▲| Ups in the where above with the doing.
| [[Vin]] meets [[Spook]]{{book ref|mb1|6}}
}}
** 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
*** I don't know where the you came from; this is how a friend explained it to me.
* 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 ==
| |||