#jahai

[tananansad]

ah. it seems that i have fallen for the

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[gears2gnomes]

There are all mine now.

[queer-as-used-by-tolkien]

Trying to do the Return achieves and ran into this sylvari doing repairs on a broken airship in Jahai where we fight Death-Branded Shatterer.

With voice lines from HoT!

And the Pale Tree is still out of business for now. This poor sylvari probably got huge flashbacks when the Shatterer brought down this airship.

And, apparently, is also still suffering from anti-sylvari sentiment. And thinks everyone - including my Commander - still thinks sylvari are evil.

Either this one sylvari has been HEAVILY traumatized, or... we need post-HoT sylvari lore.

[more-violets-less-violence]

So this was uh, a special fight in Jahai.

[nicholasrossis]

The Challenge Of Describing Scents In Your Writing

The Challenge Of Describing Scents In Your Writing

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Of all the human senses, I find smell the hardest to use in writing. And yet, it’s one of the most powerful, as a number of studies have shown it’s hard-wired into our brain, and a shortcut to all sorts of strong emotions. So why is it so hard to find the right word for a smell?

Turns out, I’m hardly the only one in this predicament. As a recent Economist article on scentsrecently…

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[ramayanax]

Jahai tribal village. Royal Belum rainforest reserve.

[supersaiyantrex]

Definitely would love to do that night all over again

[tinsnip]

Just as English has precise color terms like “mauve” and “cerulean,” Jahai has highly precise terms for smells – such as cŋεs, “the smell of petrol, smoke and bat droppings,” itpɨt, “the smell of durian fruit, Aquillaria wood, and bearcat,” pʔus “a musty smell, like old dwellings, mushrooms and stale food,” and plʔεŋ, “a bloody smell that attracts tigers.” English speakers, meanwhile, tended to rely on broader smell terms like “smoky,” “sweet,” “piney” and so on. The results were published in the journal Cognition.

(http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/01/15/this-language-names-odors-as-precisely-as-english-speakers-name-color/#.VXJUPNJViko)