(08-02-2017, 03:57 AM)Valence Wrote: You of course also have all the eorzean specific measures and units like the calendar (they forget here sennight and fortnight for the week and 14 days) and their non metric system.
It's worth noting that "fortnight" ("fourt(een) nights") in FFXIV actually refers to 16 days, because the week (referred to erroneously as "sennight", "se'en nights") is 8 days.
So... the words are etymologically wrong, but...
I think that's because while "octnight" is a bit weird-sounding but otherwise passable, "sexdecnight" wouldn't go down so well with the EN community. xD
Okay, that was a joke, because I don't think they're using those prefix schemes. But I do think it is just to do with how clumsy it would be to try and invent similar words for eight and sixteen nights. Better to use the recognisable words for 1/2 weeks and hope no one thinks about it too much.
(08-02-2017, 07:03 AM)Yian Kutku Wrote:Quote:- Sailor's talk: mostly Lominsan. Explicit. You can find a hardcore version of it at the Rogues' guild, basically, the same patterns of speach but with a specific glossary of words like "cove" and whatnot.
Lominsan has a lot of stereotypical pirate speak, ie West Country as performed by Robert Newton. Other than that, it bears a lot of similarity to the "Commoner's talk" mentioned above.
The Rogues' Guild slang is pretty much Thieves' Cant, watered down to be more comprehensible. You can find dictionaries of it online, or possibly in print. As with many languages, there are a zillion variations, so a term that isn't in one dictionary may be in another. The one I use is the 1811 dictionary by Francis Grose (available on Project Gutenberg, also amusingly slightly censored).
Like, I'm almost sure you can do a search-and-replace of Jacke's speech, and it will turn out to be fairly normal.
Seconding thieves' cant - they really did their research with Jacke and more or less everything he says is translatable using real-life dictionaries of thieves' cant from the time period FFXIV draws on (16th-18th century). I think this is an earlier edition of the dictionary you were referring to - A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (Grove, Francis), Third Edition, 1796? It's one of my favourite non-FFXIV-originated FFXIV resources. Definitely worth flicking through if you play a character who has cause to use Lominsan slang.
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