My coat! My coat! What has she *done* with my precious coat of arms? ’twas not nearly so garish a garment ere I lost it to that fiend. Make thee not mine error when dealing with this one, I implore thee. She is a cheat of the worst sort–that which you ken is a cheat, yet makes a poorer fool of thee all the same!
’tis folly to wager with any demon, and this one more than most! Abjure thyself!
Blue Devils are actually the lowest order and most common of Devils.
The hierarchy is Blue < Violet < Crimson < Gold < Vermillion < Indigo < Ebon, and all the variances in between. Starting on the devil hierarchy one naturally starts with blue.
This ‘Black Speech’ intrigues me. It seems the sort of thing that would develop if degenerated street slang clung desperately to a semblance of eloquence. Much seems to be lost in translation, but I do hope a guide remains. It is a… nuanced tongue.
The perspective in panel three is rather odd, but I’m having difficulty nailing down exactly why. The perspective of the stairs seems to be at odds with that of the floating structure.
The only thing tripping me up is Tha. Thee I grok. But is Tha considered something akin to a more personal ‘you’, indicating familiarity? That’s the feeling I got from ‘tha me not, thee’. “Don’t trouble me by acting concerned.” was the implication I got.
Tha is a dialect form of thou, which, yes, is the familiar pronoun. It can also be a verb, meaning to address with the familiar. Hence the Northern English parental advice: “Don’t thee tha them as thas thee,” meaning “don’t speak familiarly to those who speak familiarly to you (because that’s disrespecting your elders and betters)”.
My takeaway from “tha me not, thee” was “I don’t care what you’re saying, and you’re getting uppity. Shut up.”
erm iam guessing a LOT is being lost in translation but we get the meaning of what they’re saying anyway. the black speak provides the context and our translation provides the meaning
BRILLIANT. From now on I shall be taking notes in order to learn this amazing language.
My coat! My coat! What has she *done* with my precious coat of arms? ’twas not nearly so garish a garment ere I lost it to that fiend. Make thee not mine error when dealing with this one, I implore thee. She is a cheat of the worst sort–that which you ken is a cheat, yet makes a poorer fool of thee all the same!
’tis folly to wager with any demon, and this one more than most! Abjure thyself!
Sure are a lot of blue devils around, now. That’s probably not important anything that happened already or was mentioned at all
Blue Devils are actually the lowest order and most common of Devils.
The hierarchy is Blue < Violet < Crimson < Gold < Vermillion < Indigo < Ebon, and all the variances in between. Starting on the devil hierarchy one naturally starts with blue.
Are Devils Black Children or White Children? They seem to be rooted in warmth of fierce YIS, which would point at… Black?
This ‘Black Speech’ intrigues me. It seems the sort of thing that would develop if degenerated street slang clung desperately to a semblance of eloquence. Much seems to be lost in translation, but I do hope a guide remains. It is a… nuanced tongue.
The perspective in panel three is rather odd, but I’m having difficulty nailing down exactly why. The perspective of the stairs seems to be at odds with that of the floating structure.
Thinken you thum panelby wrongwise be?
Fixen um later methinks.
Thanken thee.
The only thing tripping me up is Tha. Thee I grok. But is Tha considered something akin to a more personal ‘you’, indicating familiarity? That’s the feeling I got from ‘tha me not, thee’. “Don’t trouble me by acting concerned.” was the implication I got.
Tha is a dialect form of thou, which, yes, is the familiar pronoun. It can also be a verb, meaning to address with the familiar. Hence the Northern English parental advice: “Don’t thee tha them as thas thee,” meaning “don’t speak familiarly to those who speak familiarly to you (because that’s disrespecting your elders and betters)”.
My takeaway from “tha me not, thee” was “I don’t care what you’re saying, and you’re getting uppity. Shut up.”
erm iam guessing a LOT is being lost in translation but we get the meaning of what they’re saying anyway. the black speak provides the context and our translation provides the meaning
The last panel translation left me giggling out loud, for I know the secret sillables of black speech.
In the words of DBZA Krillin: “You have a beautiful language”