{"id":630,"date":"2011-12-19T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2011-12-19T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T03:39:01","slug":"adventures-in-barsoomian-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Barsoomian Continued…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went back and re-read that recent NY Times article<\/a> on conlanging and realized it mentions that Paul Frommer<\/a> (of Na'vi<\/a> fame) has been hired “to develop a Martian language called Barsoomian for ‘John Carter,’ a science-fiction movie to arrive in March.” That gave me some hope! If that is<\/em> the case, it’s even more unfortunate that they included the Martian “Decoder”<\/a> and Martian Translator<\/a> on the movie’s official site. Why not start promoting Barsoomian now? Build some buzz? I also had the thought that, even though Dr. Frommer is a “professional” language creator, any Barsoomian he comes up with will be no more canonical than something I or anyone else devises. The only Barsoomian canon (from my perspective) would be that devised (or sanctioned by) Edgar Rice Burroughs (or, I suppose, his estate). So, with that in mind, let’s continue on our own little adventure into the speech of the Red Planet.<\/p>\n

Last time out<\/a>, we gained some new vocabulary and could say things like Hek dar ron<\/em> “The father guards his son” with articles, tense, and pronouns supplied telepathically (or by context). This time, we’ll turn to measurements and see what we can puzzle out…<\/p>\n

According to ERB, we have on Barsoom the sofad<\/em>, ad<\/em>, haad<\/em>, and karad<\/em> measurements with the following relationships:<\/p>\n