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hS, your creativity never fails to astound me. Thank you! Sorry to hear my name breaks Valarin.

I think I like the Quenya best . . .

—doctorlit, tintóretecë

That's quite a mouthful. I like the "great writings" part, though! Thank you!

—doctorlit, Giēñatys Bardillazmoti

Happy birthday!( that’s I assume through the other replies).

Here’s a cone hat adorned with question marks!

Happy birthday!

We are the children of myriad worlds. Once we wandered lost, but now we have found each other. We join our hands in friendship, and by our hands we build a new world together.

Literal: We children of-worlds many. We wandered by-lostness once but we already-find to-us now. We join hands-our for-friendship and we will build from-hands-our by-togetherness world-new.

Kisha yalli rhaesheseri sani. Kisha verish k'athleizar kash kashi, vosma kisha ray ezish kishaan ajjin. Kisha akkemolaki qoraes kishi okeokhaan, ma kisha amarilaki qorasoa kishi k'athniyanqoyar rhaesheseres sash.

I don't think Dothraki has a native writing system in-universe (whereas HV presumably does but it's just unknown to us). I guess that same HV font you used might be your best bet?

Elcalion

In High Valyrian, you are Arliegrevyaerēbagio, ('new wheel-traveller').

In Dothraki, I have come up with Sashfirverak, ('new round-traveller'), coining the verb firverat 'to skate' (literally 'to round-travel')

Elcalion

I think that I can suggest a question, but I do not know whether this was in last year’s consensus.

The question is, who’s your favourite PPC writer?( writer here refers to those who spork fics or write missions).

Not that it really had much of a chance in the first place, now that I think about it.

Skater is probably hard to translate; I expect roller-skating and skateboarding are not multiversal sports. If you can step up to the challenge, though, that would be cool!

And sadly, I do not know any conlangs except a bit of Newspeak. (Quite frankly, everyone's name here would probably become Crimespeak. And then it'd become Unalive.)

Even 'The Great Filth'!

It's amusing that hair is a related term, as well, considering mine's so long IRL and all. XD

As for other languages, what about Draconic, to crib a language from another of DD's works? (The Door Into... series, to be specific.)

Overall, I think that the question that needs to be asked is "what are we trying to learn with this question on the census?" I get that the PPC is a comedic setting and we're a bunch of funny nerds who like a good story before anything else, but I personally feel like that may need to be toned down for the survey questions. After all, how will knowing what piece of DoSAT tech is best-liked help us, as a community, adapt to the needs of our members? If a question doesn't serve a purpose, then there isn't a reason to have it.

(In particular, I think the "What's your favorite [X] in the PPC?" questions can just be a separate Board thread that pops up every once in a while.)

• Geema, who may be thinking about this too hard due to taking one too many psychology classes

It is time... ahem has been time for quite a bit now for this year's Census. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about: Every year in September, I put up a questionnaire for the PPC asking some questions, like age, fandoms, writing activity, etc; and since it is September 83rd and several people poked me on Discord, I probably should get going on that.

PARTICIPATION IS ENTIRELY VOLUNTARY, BUT ENCOURAGED.

Now, last year, I asked for questions you'd like added to it. As a result, the census got very long (I think the one last ear was over 80 questions), and I'd like to reduce that length. That's why I'm asking both for questions you'd like added, and for questions that really aren't all that useful anymore.

Personally, I'd like to remove the question asking for your name on here. The reason is that it can be possible to derive who gave some answers in some cases. Currently, this is not the case for the "Sexuality", "Gender", or "Where do you live?" questions. It is however the case for the questins that list answers, such as "fandoms", "lust objects", and some of the questins regarding criticisms of the PPC, although participation was low enough in their case that the problematicness is a bit limited.

~Ak

PS: 2017 answers 2018 answers

• Board name: Huinesoron
• English: Eagleshade
• Quenya: Huinesoron
• Sindarin: Dúathoron (Shadow-eagle)
• Telerin: Fuinethoron
• Adûnaic: Nâlonarâk (Shadow-Eagle)
• Black Speech: Búrzgûl 'Black Wraith)
• Dovahzul: Vokunviing (Unlight Wing) [Edhelistar]
• Valarin: Aþâradušamanûðân (Marred Messenger)
• Eldar: Fhaisorr Amon (Shadow-Eagle) [Scapegrace]
• Tau'sia: Gue'por'vre Fio'gue El'anuk'erra (Human-Magister of Earth Eagle-Shadow) [Scapegrace]
• Tau'sia Achievement Name: Gue'por'vre Fio'gue Elro'shas'ka'yi B'rai'taal (Human-Magister of Earth Speaker-of-Star-Flowers Shepherd-of-Time-Preservation) [Scapegrace]
• High Valyrian: Ūlioazmasȳndro (great falcon of the shadow) [Elcalion]
• Latin: Umbraeaquila (Eagle of Shadow) [Aurora Morningstar]
• Dothraki: Kolverzanisshi (?Shadow-eagle) [Elcalion]
• Primitive Quendian: Thoronowath (Eagle-shadow)
• Khuzdul: Shathûruzbadazan (Cloud-lord of the dark)
• Hebrew: Ay'it HaTzlalim / עיט הצללים (Eagle of the Shadows) [Zingenmir]
• Runic language: Crubint-Parsine-Elcran-Frentia ("harm-causing air-life shadow") [Snowblaze]

(Thoronowath is a new coinage in this post; there is actually a direct ancestor of huine, phuine, but that makes for a very clunky name. Shathûruzbadazan is also new, and is actually pretty close in meaning; I'm as surprised as you are.)

hS

I like Kolverzanisshi - it's got a good rhythm to it.

In exchange, I offer you a bonus name for yourself:

Khuzdul: Ayakibil, 'Upon Silver'. The idea being that your thoughts are on the (silver) stars.

hS

Or is it Saruman sounds like Sauron. Oh man.

Quenya: Lahtanettë. Lahta is the infinitive 'to excel'; nette combines the 'man' and diminutive parts, as 'little girl' or (colloquially) 'pretty little thing'. It's also used as a childish name for the ring finger (not used for the ring in Elvish culture) or the equivalent toe.

Sindarin: Eindhîreg, literally 'Excellent+man+diminutive'. As a girl's name, this would probably be given to someone who looked 'just like' her famous dad.

Adunaic: There is only one possible translation here: Izindu-bêth, 'true-sayer', after Cassandra of Troy. This is an attested Adunaic term.

Valarin: Amanaišalayanûz, 'Unmarred Ainu'. I can't form a diminutive of it, but given the massive religious connotations of the name, plus the -uz marking it as the name of a Vala, I don't think I should. As a bonus, when adapted into Quenya it would probably be something like Amisala, which is a diminutive of sorts.

Black Speech: The original name would be Durburuk, 'Orc-Queen', dominion being the only form of excellence in Mordor. But orcs being orcs, and 'ruler' being a pretty dangerous thing to go around calling yourself, it would quickly be debased into Durbuk.

hS

Those are the only Sauron and Saruman I know of. Are you saying you get them mixed up with each other?

Given that Gandalf also smokes a lot of pipeweed, you may be onto something there... :D

hS

I have something to say about Sword and Shield, and I don’t know whether a lot of people know this( it’s not related to the national dex).

The problem is related to the online part of Sword and Shield. There’s no battle spot or Global Trading Station. I’m not kidding. They are gone; you can’t even find it in the Y-Comm.

I can forgive Game Freak for taking out most of the pokémon( even though I can’t bring my shiny Tapu Koko over:( ) and that the graphics are inferior to Ultra Sun and Moon on more powerful hardware.

But I am angry at them for removing the battle spot. How the heck am I supposed to prove myself as a good pokémon trainer if I can’t fight anyone? I know that the Y-Comm has an option that allows you to fight random trainers, but no one even wants to battle me!

It’s Zubat sh*%t crazy! They added mints so that you don’t have to breed a thousand Magikarps for the “perfect” competitive shiny Gyarados, but what’s the point if you can’t even battle people with that perfect Gyarados? That’s rubbing salt into the wound.

It would be useless until the next generation which might take another two to three years. My point is, if you play pokémon for competitive battling, play showdown instead( even though I don’t know how to play it).

I think I have a problem. Whenever someone mentions Sauron or Saruman I think of Saruman the white or the dark lord Sauron.

And Gandalf sold fireworks? I guess he’s called Gandalf the grey because of the smoke made from those fireworks?

Sauron, along with creating evil rings, also created a language for his servants. The original form is used by the Nazgul (Nazg+Gul, 'Ring+Wraith'), and on the One Ring (Ash Nazg) itself; the Orcs use a debased form. But because the corpus is so small, we pretty much have to treat both forms as the same language to get anywhere.

hS