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hoppy wrote:If the dragons are right and fluency in Draconic is necessary to magic use. That, imply's that there are unhumanly intuitive mental gymnastics that are inherent in Draconic. Plus, the fact that the Chinese magicians were probably very secretive to the point they may have only used draconic in reference to magic. Remember they were a political group that relied on magic use for their power.

ANTIcarrot wrote:Given the Chinese (supposedly) have access to a sky dragon library - how much have they managed to translate? The technical stuff on magical theory, and regular prose may also be almost impossible, but at least one book almost certainly contains some mathematical notations or graphs, which should be substantially easier to decode. You can do a lot with maths. You can do even more with maps too, which some of the books may also contain. I wonder how much other nations might be willing to pay if they were offered the coordinates of other ancient dragon sites within their borders...

Given that Cuniform was decoded pre computers, and we managed to at least identify heiroglyph names before the rosetta stone, and the chinese actually have computers, how much dragonese can they read?

PS: And what race(s) of dragon skeleton was found in the ruins? Because I can think of little else that would have made them keep a find like this secret for decades.

Mad Monk wrote:The translation of lost languages relies on context and similarity to known languages. <snip> Given that the Draconic language is unrelated to any human tongue, plus has a totally alien viewpoint, it is not surprising that it has not yet been translated, even with computer help.

ANTIcarrot wrote:This is why I mentioned maths; the universal language. However the dragons wrote things, one plus one equals two. And Fel did say they used draconic for everything. Everything includes accounting, and ledgers, even draconic ones, presumably look different from spell books.With computers some things become easier. Without any help a computer looking for paterns in English, would quickly recognise a regular combination of speachmarks, commas, and the word 'said' - and flag it as pretty damn important, even if it couldn't say why. Certain words will also be highlighted for various reasons. The egyptians did this with kings, which is why we learned those words first. And pictures usually don't need to be translated.They have all sorts of clues. They should have made some progress.

Mad Monk wrote:The translation of lost languages relies on context and similarity to known languages. <snip> Given that the Draconic language is unrelated to any human tongue, plus has a totally alien viewpoint, it is not surprising that it has not yet been translated, even with computer help.

This is why I mentioned maths; the universal language. However the dragons wrote things, one plus one equals two. And Fel did say they used draconic for everything. Everything includes accounting, and ledgers, even draconic ones, presumably look different from spell books.With computers some things become easier. Without any help a computer looking for paterns in English, would quickly recognise a regular combination of speachmarks, commas, and the word 'said' - and flag it as pretty damn important, even if it couldn't say why. Certain words will also be highlighted for various reasons. The egyptians did this with kings, which is why we learned those words first. And pictures usually don't need to be translated.They have all sorts of clues. They should have made some progress.