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Pop Culture Names in Dragorean (Dragorean Diacritic and Akthorian Phonetic Standard representations) (DDS and APS representations)
Star Wars: Ŭжár Kōnūmŭ (DDS), Azhar Konuma (APS)
Star Trek: Ŭжár Samūm (DDS), Azhar Samum (APS)
Breaking Bad: Azōán Sōvásō (DDS), Azoan Sovaso (APS)
Small Soldiers: Lesēmŭ Kōnáthëmŭ (DDS), Lesima Konathëma (APS)
Oppenheimer: Дáth Wēsŭ Wej Gōrōtáz Ázōr Vērahēmŭ (DDS), Dath Wisa Wej Gorotaz Azor Virahima (APS)
Dragorean Homework: How to say "this has caused many issues for me"
Random notes and stuff. Figuring out how to say a specific phrase, using Dragorean mind-thought first, rather than saying it/thinking it in Inglish/English, then translating it into Dragorean.
Dragorean Word Of The Day #1: 9/30/2025 — azhar (APS); ŭжár (DDS)
azhar (ŭжár) — noun.
a star, defined by its distance. the azharma in the chasm of stars are those which are far away, seen in specks. defined as an opposing term to shadar, a star which is nearby and close enough to touch (if you could survive it).
Dragorean homework: Bible refamiliarization + Exodus 3:14, 3:15, and possibly more in Dragorean (compared to the English retranslations)
Because why not?
Dragorean homework: Temporal coding, pronouns, possessives, and the rise of the Dragorean alphabet
I figured out there's in-universe a "Dragorean Alphabet" I needed to invent an entire subplot to account for, but it's less of a monstrosity than the Dragorean Diacritics Set. I figure, by the 2100s OE when Akthorian makes the thing, he's got way more letters to choose from and doesn't care about the historicity, but the "Dragorean alphabet" is meant to be used on in-universe signs dating from the 1950s, so it really only can have letters that both make sense for Inglenook to have access to and would be available in the real-world during the 1950s era.
Of course, Cyrillic letters (as are present in the Dragorean Diacritics Set) have been in existence for much longer than since the 1950s, but I had created the concept of the Boraxans to account for it and that never fully jived with me, so now I'm accounting for it with the World of Dragorea — a new Commonwealth of the Hearth realm founded north of the Kingdom of Inglenook as a joint venture between King Benedict and the dragonborn people of the Kholedzar — which comes with it a new, "Dragorean alphabet" based partially on their pre-existing Mezhon runes, and on the Regatrian/Latin letters already beginning to be used by the Kholedzar to communicate with the Ingles to their southern regions, and on letters that might reasonably have begun existing by the 50s, so I can just justify its existence and work it into plotlines a lot better, I suppose.
Also in this post: conjugating different sentences based on factors like "what noun is joined by others of its kind, and in what time" using the modifying terms like wuk and wuktu, as well as nink and ninkti, new pronouns featuring the possessive clitics -ni and -nisi, and...well, I guess that's it for this one, really.
I have no idea what to do about the Dathzhad word for guilt.
Should dragons feel guilty? Should Zhumago (or al-Zhumago-mo) feel bad for conquering Arishoth? Or al-Eirimë-mo for dying in southern Inglenook and altering their swamps forever with the creation of Eirimë's Cradle (al-Badom-wisa di-al-Eirimë-mo)?
Is it a sin in their souls? Can I reuse the word for "to rot", thas, for it? Maybe for them, guilt is a metaphorical rot: a sickness to be cured, a mold to cleanse off the walls. Maybe it's mildew on the wooden boards of a ship that went untreated and ends up sinking beneath the tides at night. Maybe they have no concept of "emotional" words; they have fafi, "to fear", but not yet a word for "to feel proud" or "pride" or "arrogance" and not yet a word for "guilt" or "shame" or "self-loathing" or disgust; no words to confess or admit to anything they've ever done in their time across the stars.
What kind of culture is it which can't even confess the ways they've wronged the world that never asked for them to exist alongside it in the first place, and was just there when the dragons left the seas and explored the planets to begin with?
Nah-nima suthep yo-zenak al-Derkon Suverat Wafala-mo. Nah-nima yo-virak tam-Teir-Aho-Katrua, Dairothala Runk Hamaj, al-Wafala Eigolap, al-Yoth Lesimapeitorkor, Katrua-Shiparin-Wanu-Ahovith-Kuradros.
Pur riz al-liatu yo-vitriëma, vidt yo-zenak grot yo-zhadako-wesai di-(guilt). Nah-nima yo-zenak yo-zhadako fo-nah-nimo-plusatanma jesh.
Al-Yo-Diklomë-mo. Yodi yo-zenak nah-nimo yo-adishë. Nah-nima yo-dasak yodi yo-dasak vadt. Lesima Derkon. Yodi yo-zenak nah-nimo bok al-dath. Sowom— sowom al-zirdoma yotai-akorzenal yota-jajraz (about; in regards to) nah-nim kuv yodi yotai-akorzenal yo-jajrako suv-yo-sagiako-zelma-wisa.
Nah-nima yo-ketrak yodi yo-dasako...oji yo-talorak mal, karij nah-nima yo-wivaz al-zirdo-wisa di-yod suv-nah-nimo-al-kor.
— With the exception of the two untranslated words (as of this post, since I don't have workable equivalents of them in Dathzhad at this time), the Dragorean here is accurate as of 4/29/2026. Including recent updates to the tense system, modalities, and prefixes which verbally mark whether a word is a noun or a verb (with no distinction between noun and proper noun, as proper nouns take on the -mo suffix, but only if they're a living and sapient being).
In any case, this is what I have so far for Walter White's opening pilot speech, recorded on camcorder, from the first episode of Breaking Bad, as part of my project to create a dragon-centric adaptation of the show in both full-Dragorean and dragon-centric theming — called Yo-Thasako Suvaso (and formerly known as Thasan Suvaso, before the current updates to the tense and part-of-speech marking systems) — which replaces all characters with dragons and adjusting worldbuilding elements and dialogue necessities as necessary to translate the story to the culture of the dragons of the Chasm of Stars.
Dragorean is really starting to feel like a language after recent updates, rather than just "saying stuff in a funny way". I have few conjugations as well as, um, verbal modalities? Or something. Different prefixes added to verbs to get them to mean different stuff. Plus some random linguistic quirks unique to Dragorean: every noun is prefaced with the prefix al- and every verb is prefaced with either yo-, yota-, or yotai- depending on tense.
That combined with shifting na nima toward nah-nima and similar little fixes, including the adjustments to the tense system, make it feel like it's developing its own accent that's really been bringing it closer to my original goal of having it feel and sound like it's being whispered in the dark by ancient beings. Also, including more quasi-Arabic and semi-Japanese influences really seems to be doing the trick for me. I thought I wanted Dathzhad to be mostly Turkic- and Germanic-based, but Dragorean culture is ultimately way more like Arabic and Japanese culture, so the linguistic influences really seal the deal here for me.
I'm amazed how much little things can do for it. I didn't think "a system where specific types of parts of speech are actually verbally accounted for every time a word in that part of speech is spoken" would make much of a difference, but I read back the bits of Breaking Bad dialogue I translated with this new system and it really does just sound like Dragorean now, and not just a bunch of random weird sounds I'm just pretending are a different language.
