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Jul 9, 2009 19:10:10 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 9, 2009 19:10:10 GMT -5
More research into Irish words and terms and Gaelic too....
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Jul 9, 2009 20:29:49 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 9, 2009 20:29:49 GMT -5
There were literally hundreds of people milling around the tents, getting clean water for drinking and bathing. President Paul told us it would take time for the situation to really sink in. The United States was gone, it was history and they now had to do what was necessary to survive.
It had already been a few days since the devastation struck but the United Citizens Council had not wasted any time. The Minister for Agriculture had already taken a truck and some of our volunteer soldiers and established a small poultry operation from the remains of a larger one.
The remains of backyard gardens, most of them ravaged by panicked and hungry survivors had yielded replantings and seed and other good things. They were working to feed as many people as possible, but armed guards were needed to keep them from being destroyed.
Replanting peach, plum, apple and other tree's from where they had been found took hours at a time. They planned to make an 18 acre park into a real farm, they would have use of pumps and generators as long as the gasoline lasted.
Some SUV's joined our fleet of trucks, they had somehow gotten them start reliably without most of the electronics. However few of the guages on the dashboard worked and the lights would have to be connected right to the battery.
Finding the fuel was a bigger pain than was thought before hand, the underground tanks invariably had exploded. The source of many of the blazes that were still burning closer to the city. Teams were out searching for possible fuel sources but the known supply was dwindling quickly.
All of this was quite impressive to me but Paul was a hard man to please, he thought we were woefully behind where we should be. He was also mentally competing with the New League, of which we knew next to nothing. He mentally had them being set up by government as a large well-resourced operation, his big opponent.
I thought he was overdoing this idea but it would be worse if we underestimated the New League, whatever it turned out to be.
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Jul 9, 2009 21:05:45 GMT -5
Post by Attero Dominatus on Jul 9, 2009 21:05:45 GMT -5
Very good. Fuel sources would probably be the biggest point of contention between Paul and the rival government, since everything depends on it. Everything from transportation to farming equipment to water pumps. Diesel vehicles and fuel would be even more prized, since they are not as dependent on electrical equipment as gasoline vehicles are.
Another point of contention would be hospitals and doctor offices since they would have equipment and medicines to help survive the disaster.
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Jul 9, 2009 21:34:16 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 9, 2009 21:34:16 GMT -5
Still doing some research on old Ireland.... the language has changed so much and has so many dialects ... its frustrating. I will probably end up using words and terms that were separated by centuries. I doubt the readers, vast majority, would ever know it... but its still kinda weird.
irishdictionary.org seems like a spot to use as a backup...
I also have to remember this is fiction and not supposed to track perfectly with reality.
Slán = goodbye
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Jul 9, 2009 21:37:34 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 9, 2009 21:37:34 GMT -5
Good ideas. I will definitely be including a lot more stuff in this story, there is no telling how long its going to be.
Dia dhuit = a greeting like hello but literally means "God be with you"
irish-sayings.com has audio as well as text and explanations to a lot of Irish
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Jul 9, 2009 22:42:08 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 9, 2009 22:42:08 GMT -5
I fixed a few minor errors. Your=you're and the name of the sniper was Charlie "Jolly" Rodgers, I don't know how I forgot that. I kept Jorge in the warehouse though.
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Jul 10, 2009 0:42:19 GMT -5
Post by Attero Dominatus on Jul 10, 2009 0:42:19 GMT -5
Still doing some research on old Ireland.... the language has changed so much and has so many dialects ... its frustrating. I will probably end up using words and terms that were separated by centuries. I doubt the readers, vast majority, would ever know it... but its still kinda weird. irishdictionary.org seems like a spot to use as a backup... I also have to remember this is fiction and not supposed to track perfectly with reality. Slán = goodbye Just do the best you can with the knowledge you can gain. Learning a new language is tough. In Vigilance, Thomas is from Denmark and Miya is from Mongolia. I only have two instances in the story where Danish is used. First is when Thomas challenges Miya to say Rødgrød med fløde and then when he swears at some self-aware nuclear missiles that are trying to kill him when he is piloting Miya's ship (Fanden, which literally means 'the devil' is used in the same context as 'F*ck!'). I have only used one instance of Mongolian in the story, since the language's alphabet is Cryllic and there is little in the way of transliteration. Just one tongue twister: 'Ebudug ii ebudug eyer ebuduglehu du. Ebuduglegsen ebudug ebudhu uu? Ebuduglegulehu ebudug obudhu uu?' which means 'Use a knee to knee another knee. Is the knee being kneed or is the knee doing the kneeing sore?' (and I have no clue how it is pronounced). Farvel = farewell.
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Jul 10, 2009 3:51:07 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 10, 2009 3:51:07 GMT -5
I think it might be close to impossible for me to actually make a believable story based in ancient Ireland. I am thinking how to do this. If you got any idea, I could use some. Probably a lot.
Póg mo thóin! = Kiss my @$$
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Jul 10, 2009 3:56:21 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 10, 2009 3:56:21 GMT -5
Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat - May the cat eat you and the devil eat the cat
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Jul 10, 2009 11:17:55 GMT -5
Post by Attero Dominatus on Jul 10, 2009 11:17:55 GMT -5
I think it might be close to impossible for me to actually make a believable story based in ancient Ireland. I am thinking how to do this. If you got any idea, I could use some. Probably a lot. Póg mo thóin! = Kiss my @$$ I know next to nothing about ancient Ireland. I am sorry. Do not give up on it though.
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Jul 10, 2009 22:28:35 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 10, 2009 22:28:35 GMT -5
OK. But I will consider it through other ways too. Maybe a scifi version or something.
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