What's a word whose etymology you are proud of?
Trigedasleng wears its etymologies on its sleeve, being a future form of English, but I will always love sofstepa (< "soft" + "stepper") for "cat".
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What's a word whose etymology you are proud of?
Trigedasleng wears its etymologies on its sleeve, being a future form of English, but I will always love sofstepa (< "soft" + "stepper") for "cat".
No matter what, I will always be amazed and in awe of the Trigedasleng language in The 100
Hey Netflix, would it kill you to write down the words of a conlang?? I don't need to know someone is [speaking Trigedasleng), tell me what words they're using. It's like half the time we'll get the translation or the language itself (skaikru, wanheda, heda, etc), then other times we're stuck with [speaks Trigedasleng]
Blood must have blood.
In which Anya Kom Trikru sends her lover to die.
Warnings : death, explosion
Anya, the leader of Trikru, was a powerful woman. She was also a passionate one. That was one of the many reasons you loved her. You had a special relationship with the warrior since you were children, she would rarely be seen without you near. When Anya decided to begin the attack on Skaikru, she chose you to lead the first wave. Normally she wouldn’t put you at risk in such a way but, with most of their enemies incapacitated by the disease they sent, she was certain this was a sure win.
Adrenaline shook your veins, like the wild vibration of leaves in a storm. Your feet bounced as you stood in a tree, watching over the forest. The coast was clear. You nodded to Tris, Anya’s young mentee. It was time to charge. A roar erupted from your chest and reverberated through the trees, letting everyone else know it was time. Jus dren jus daun.
Your feet hit the floor gracefully with Tris landing next to you. You steadied the girl as she stumbled, her height made the drop a little more intense. She pushed your hands away to save face in front of the older warriors, but gave you a small and grateful smile. The two of you led the charge, the jeers and roars from your brothers in arms got louder and louder as you reached the bridge. Once you crossed this, you would start encountering Skaikru. Your heart thundered in anticipation as you picked up your pace. You had gotten about a third of the way across the bridge when you spotted something. At first it looked like a grey dot, but as you approached you could tell it was a barrel of some sort. You stopped in your tracks when you looked past it and saw a Skaikru warrior, pointing their weapon at the out of place barrel. You realised this must be some kind of trap.
“TRIS!!” You screamed at the girl but she could not hear you over the chanting. Jus drein jus daun.
The others had begun to overtake you not hearing your frantic orders to stop. You pushed them all out of the way, trying to reach Tris. You couldn’t let her be the one to trigger whatever trap Skaikru had laid. Finally you managed to catch the girls wrist but, it was too late. You shielded young Tris with your body as the barrel exploded. The air turned red as flames ravaged your skin and blew the pair of you to the ground beneath the bridge. You heaved in a breath and time stopped. The bricks that were once a bridge, had been flung to the sky. It was as if they were floating up there, never to come down. If only that were true. Suddenly, the suspension was over and gravity brought the bridge back to the ground. Your breath released, in a shaky erratic manner. In an instant your vision faded black with rubble choking your lungs and the echoes still ringing. Jus drein jus daun.
Anya screamed like a banshee as she threw her arms down onto a table, breaking it in two. She had been told how your body was found. Burned and buried under tonnes of rubble, holding a barely alive Tris beneath you. Half of her died with you. All she had to hold on to was the hope, that your final wish came true, that Tris would live. When that too failed, her heart finally broke. The chanting that comfortingly carried you to your grave, would forever live in the place of Anya’s heart.
Jus drein jus daun.
my favorite thing in the 100 is when the trigedasleng translation captions mistranslate the words on purpose to make it tv appropriate
there's a scene where echo says "jok yu" which literally means "fuck you" and the captions say "screw you"
Okay, so, the canon Trigedasleng word for "farm" is ponis. Descended from "hydroponics", presumable since that's how people grew food during the nuclear apocalypse.
So the word for "farming" or "agricuture" would presumably be ponisplei.
Which is all well and good except for the mighty temptation to drop the s and make it poniplei instead.
I would give at least two (2) limbs for The 100: Origins or some shit where we get a full background of Grounders origination and history with more details on Callie, and the first couple Commanders and really how that all came to be, and the growth of Trig, and definitely how Azgeda came to find the anomaly stone and bury(?) it
Like whomever can make this happen, I beg you to pls pls do it
Some older word emote! It’s more personal/an inside references. :]
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