And Now For Something Completely Different - Boing!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Oh, and caprinepointed me to this proclamation by issendai:

 

All apostrophes in the middle of fantasy names are now to be pronounced "boing."

That is all.

 

I say that while we’re at it, we summarily change any word with a pointless diacritic in it to “gazornenplat.” And then we should execute Christopher Paolini for crimes against conlanging..

 

 

Of course, this is coming from a conlanger with reasons for the weird orthography, a conlanger with a character whose full name is Doctor Lwefir, qre :am, Náileyè-Miye!aq-lal-Náiváim-Edisqi.*  Therefore, I petition for an amendment: if the author can give you a good linguistic reason for her diacritics, and can tell you exactly what the name means, then their apostrophes are exempt from this proclamation.

 

However, Tboingpel, Fboinglar, the Shiboingar Empire, and especially King Galbatorix,** of the province Gazornenplat, ruler of the kingdom Gazornenplat, sworn enemy of Arya Gazornenplat, and commander of the Raboingzac, have it coming.


*Since you ask, Doctor Lwefir, [daughter of] :am, Always-Knows-What-To-Say. Nobody wants to know the actual breakdown, do they? Because I could tell you ...

**Yes.