Experimenting with different visual cues to show that a character is not quite fluent in a language yet.
I made like 4 different ways to express this with blur, colour cues and partly translated bits. You can see those and commentary here:
https://www.tumblr.com/bengaly/748326673106206720/experimenting-with-different-visual-cues-to-show?source=share
(the other language is kalaallisut, a real language spoken in greenland, albeit machine translated and probs not 100% accurate)
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I made like 4 different ways to express this with blur, colour cues and partly translated bits. You can see those and commentary here:
https://www.tumblr.com/bengaly/748326673106206720/experimenting-with-different-visual-cues-to-show?source=share
(the other language is kalaallisut, a real language spoken in greenland, albeit machine translated and probs not 100% accurate)
High resolution files available on patreon
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yeah i think was the right one. looks the best and conveys the message pretty easily.
thank u! i'm glad its easy to understand, i guess i was worried the blur would make things confusing.
I think it being confusing drives home the point :) this works great for what its trying to relay
agreeing, this is easily the most understandable one ( irony considering the basis of it is lack of understanding lol ) very cute comic!
also agree, i think this is a great way to portray only partially understanding!
i've been playing with those blorbos in my head before sleep for a couple weeks btw... idk how much adhd would let me do anything about this. but i can try! its basically the first time i have a structured story with beginning, middle and end in my head. often i only think of headworld setting, biology or small interaction bits and have a hard time thinking of where do i want to go with it. this one kinda solid. maybe i should hold onto this chance to make something.
One of the hardest language of all time and has confusing grammer.
A underrated linguistic youtuber named Iamshawn getoffmylawn has made video about Kalaallisut greenlandic language here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCDUxYtt7cM
A underrated linguistic youtuber named Iamshawn getoffmylawn has made video about Kalaallisut greenlandic language here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCDUxYtt7cM
thats a cool video, thanks for sharing!
personally i find the grammar very cool! its definitely different and complex, suffixed languages like that are amazing. i've been learning guarani which is also full of suffixes (though not as agglutinated) and at least with guarani i feel like that once you get the hang of it you can express so many complex thoughts with just adding an extra suffix in the right spot, which is an easier side of those languages in comparision to having to learn a whole lot of articles and verbal conditions positions and inclinations such as with indo-european languages! im saying that because i find that while there is the difficulty of unfamiliarity, theres also the very pratical side of "just add an extra suffix" to it, so its not all just the horrors! :)
personally i find the grammar very cool! its definitely different and complex, suffixed languages like that are amazing. i've been learning guarani which is also full of suffixes (though not as agglutinated) and at least with guarani i feel like that once you get the hang of it you can express so many complex thoughts with just adding an extra suffix in the right spot, which is an easier side of those languages in comparision to having to learn a whole lot of articles and verbal conditions positions and inclinations such as with indo-european languages! im saying that because i find that while there is the difficulty of unfamiliarity, theres also the very pratical side of "just add an extra suffix" to it, so its not all just the horrors! :)
i think this communicates it perfectly!! i've been in this situation recently of spending time with people who speak a language i know some of, and this is exactly how i think it feels.
This is very relatable, I think you nailed it lmao!
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