So I'm rereading the Darker Shade of Magic books for the 18th billion time, and was babbling to @stealingpotatoes about how glorious her ADSOM art is, and I realized my "how would you know i acquired a billion dollars" is very much
Step 1 : buying the rights to adsom
Step 2 : throwing as much money as that language dude from Game of Thrones needs to build out all the different languages
Step 3 : auditioning animation studios to find out which one feels the best
Step 4 : finding a bunch of Voice Actors to be able to speak previously mentioned languages (so that the language barriers can be upheld)
Step 5 : adapt it as closely as i can, word for word, and then die happy
Like, I know I won't shut up about how bad the Leviathan anime is, but having creators understand that language is important, in both worldbuilding and character. And now that I'm rereading both the Leviathan books as well as A Darker Shade, they both have language as a subtle center piece. It's a lynchpin in so many ways for the world feeling alive. The ability to have a character hear a new word they don't know, and then take the time to figure out what it means (regardless of if it's Deryn trying to suss out German or Lila figuring out Arnesian curse words) holds such a vital part of the plot.
So yeah, language barriers in stories...they mean so much to me, and it pisses me off when they're lazily removed.
But also, ADSOM is functionally unadaptable unless they commit to having large chunks of it subtitled when they're talking in Arnesian.
