With ongoing restoration in the city, I am hopeful that the efforts of the DRC will unearth more D'ni texts. Every time I wander through the city, I am mocked by that omnipresent phrase - rehbahntahno tehneeehn shemtee ( The [?] [?]'s you.) and I crave more texts and notes and fragments so that we might one day translate the rest of it.

I'm also hopeful that we will be able to study the D'ni language in classes in the Cavern. I dabble a bit in D'ni via the multitude of resources available on the web - I highly recommend Domahreh's Rehchoortahn D'ni (http://linguists.bahro.com/domahreh/lessons/), Khreestrefah's D'ni Dictionary (http://www.eldalamberon.com/dni_dict.htm), and the D'ni Linguistic Fellowship (http://linguists.bahro.com/home.html), though I'd much prefer a live class with a teacher, as I am not a very disciplined student when it comes to teaching myself.

D'ni is such a rich and interesting language. Anyone else out there craving more D'ni?

I'd love to see more D'ni but I'd actually like it to be decent D'ni not the One ring to rule them all text thats in gahreesen.

I like weirdness like that but only if its human construction, D'ni wouldnt have written that and it is a yank on the immersion chain every time I see it.

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I would very definitely be into the presence of more D'ni, with the potential oppertunity to learn ... subject to Tweek's concerns.

The language is just one of the many details that go together to fascinate me, but it's an important one.

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I would love to learn to read the language. I've only got maybe the first 10 numbers memorized though (from seeing them everywhere).

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Tweek wrote:

I'd love to see more D'ni but I'd actually like it to be decent D'ni not the One ring to rule them all text thats in gahreesen.

I like weirdness like that but only if its human construction, D'ni wouldnt have written that and it is a yank on the immersion chain every time I see it.

Agreed. D'ninglish irritates me to no end. That's why I want more stuff like Kadish's last note and the kehnehn gor text. Speaking IC, The DRC were able to translate the King's journals and other notebooks, so they obviously know more D'ni than they have released to the public.

Something that might be useful to people:

D'ni Font Transcription (PDF)

I sat down with all three of the different D'ni fonts available, and mapped out the keystrokes for each. Makes it much easier to type things in D'ni

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Um, anyone translate Kadishes last note? And in fact, where in Gahreesen is this travesty you speak of?

Here's a link to the analysis of Kadish's note.

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Maratanos wrote:

And in fact, where in Gahreesen is this travesty you speak of?

It is at the first linking point to Gahreesen (In the well of building 1). Here is a link to discussion and analysis of the text.
http://linguists.bahro.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=590

So, would that be D'nelvish?

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Eleri wrote:

So, would that be D'nelvish?

Just plain D'nutty

correct me if I'm wrong, but personally I'd like us to find a classroom like in Riven, but with the language. I sat in that room for hours trying to figure out the numbering system.(still havent got it )

goofy wrote:

correct me if I'm wrong, but personally I'd like us to find a classroom like in Riven, but with the language. I sat in that room for hours trying to figure out the numbering system.(still havent got it )

The classroom in Riven does show all the letters of the D'ni alphabet hanging on the walls, and there is even a student's wordlist on a scrap of paper, with what appear to be Gehn's corrections.

The Riven classroom also has the little hangman-like game that teaches the numbers.

The classroom in the neighborhoods in Uru have the numbers 1 through 25 repeated in sequence along the ceiling.

I would love to learn to properly read D'ni... off to check out the links in the first post! Thanks for putting them up, I often see people using the language in forums but never did figure out how they learned it.

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