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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: Valkynphyre on July 11, 2009, 06:25:45 AM
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I love the way Spook talks, even though most of the time I can't tell exactly what he said, so I decided as I read through the series this time, i'm going to post everything Spook says and translate it, roughly.
Thought ya'll might wanna learn some eastern slang as well.
anyway-- first spookspeak-
"You're wanted,"... "Ups in the where above with the doing. With Master Jumps to the third floor. Uh, I've gotta go."
basically, Kelsier wants you on the third floor. I've gotta go.
btw... if anyone has a better suggestion for these translations I'd love to hear.
Also... if someone wants to lay down the rules of Eastern slang, this is a good place to do it, eh?
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second instance of spook speak
"Lestibournes."
"Not of the yetting yet."
first is his name, second means- not yet, or I don't have a nickname yet.
Third instance
"Wasing the place when I was young."
-I lived there when I was young, or something similar.
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KK, next spookspeak.
"Notting without the call of his parents."
"He wasing one, though."
"Ironeyes. Others stopped using it. Too calling close to an iron in the real eyes, eh? Inquisitor."
-Not that his parents called him ...or something.
-He had one, though.
-Ironeyes. Others stopped using it. Too close to a Steel Inquisitor, eh?
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"Someone's coming! Out in the night with the calling!"
"Big man. Robe."
Ok, I have no idea what out in the night with the calling could really mean. The rest is pretty straightforward, though.
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"You're Awaking!"
-You're waking up.
"Notting as the now," ... "Kelsier wasing the the hit with my name; changed it to Spook."
-Not anymore, Kelsier didn't like my name, he changed it to Spook.
"Two weeks," .."Wait here."
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'Course "You're awaking!" is just good English, not slang.
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You know, in the spoilers thread EUOL did give a very short explanation of how the lang works. I'll see if I can find it and post it when I get home.
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sounds good, I read it, but I still wanted to find every instance of Spookspeak I could.
next one-
"Wasing with the Dox to come and be without the stay."
-Dox and I came to visit.
"Weapons for the getting, giving for the time to be."
-this one is clarified by Spook himself- "We needed the drop off some more weapons, " ... "Storing them here for a while."
actually, i think there's a typo contained in there. 'needed the drop' should be 'needed to drop.' I'll check the typo thread, see if i need to add it.
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It will definatly be useful to try and decode the lang. If I remember the next time he does a signing and I'm at it, I'll ask him to try and teach me a little bit better.
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Wasing of the time of wasting ;)
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well, i lent my 2 copies of mistborn out for at least 10 days, so it may be a while before i can finish this. But, hey! Other people should read these books so I can talk about them.
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Yeah, you guys are almost unbearably wrong, if you're referring to Eastern US. We don't talk anything like that. If this Spook guy is, he's either mentally handicapped or screwing with you - I pick the latter.
Less than three Mawnisefenur
EDIT: Well, I will say this - we do talk funny some of the time, and even I'm guilty of starting off sentences EXACTLY as follows: "Yeah, uh, so, like..." which, due to the way I speak (unlike Eastern accent), comes out as "Yehuh, s'like..." It's hilarious when I catch myself.
EDIT 2: I just saw what forum this was in - this is about a fiction book, isn't it? I'm completely retarded. Ignore this post, lolo(x32623065239623)
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That is awesomely hilarious.
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Spook talks to Bel-whatsit about it, explains that "wasing" goes at the front of a sentence, though I see above that a subject can precede it. I would be interested in learning more, if anyone finds the Q&A.
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Yeah, it's a fiction forum moni7or. :) Don't feel bad, we all have stupid moments sometimes. At least yours happened on the internet :D
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Unless the stupid moment is video on the internet and you are famous...then it ends up on popular media and you are screwed ::)
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second instance of spook speak
"Lestibournes."
"Not of the yetting yet."
first is his name, second means- not yet, or I don't have a nickname yet.
Third instance
"Wasing the place when I was young."
-I lived there when I was young, or something similar.
Valkyn:
1. Maybe Spook is saying something like - Not of the Getting yet.
3. WasinG the place I was born. (He's speaking about the Eastern slang. I know that when people have speaking issues the G sound comes out a lot like a Y. Hope that helps, and of course I'll be pouring over Brandon's annotations.
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Wasing of the speaking with the man who is with knowing, giving of the knowing with the fans who were being. Will the teaching of the knowing with people who the knowing seek.
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Let's see if I can decipher that: "I spoke with the man who knows (Sanderson, I presume), and he told me how it works. I'll teach it to people who ask." Correct? If so, please start teaching.
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Yeah, basically. I went to the signing today and asked him to teach me, and he did.
When you break it down, eastern slang (or, as I usually call it, easternese) all that usually matters is the beginning and the end. It has a focus on possive, and then you add a ton of stuff to it so you confuse someone who's listening in.
So, "I have the book" is "having of the book with the knew of be." or whatever you want to add. So all you need is "having of the book". (You could also say "having of the knowing with the be the book". Then you just need the beginning and the end).
He also said you can throw nonsense words in there or whatever you want to try and confuse people.
The final thing I really remember was he thought of it as a living thing: so as spook's age group grows out of it the new kids might change things as they feel the need (so, while me might all use "ing" the next age group might use all of "ed".)
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Spook's slang also shows up in one line of Quentin's babbling on page 248 of Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians.
Interesting place to find it.
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Spook's eastern slang makes my brain explode just trying to figuire out what he's saying, although it is quite entertaining at the same time :D