Seeing as LARPers is about some geeky kids who are rather obsessive about tabletop RPGs (role-playing games), it seemed only natural that some of them had invented their own language to go along with their characters. To help me come up with that language, I turned to my oldest daughter, Gretchen, who just completed her third year of linguistics at UBC. She invented a language from scratch, and we had a lot of fun implementing it in the book. It comes complete with a glossary at the back, so you can put it to good use.
Incidentally, this is actually the second Milligan Creek book to feature a made-up language. See Snowbound for the other language, although I can't take any credit for making that one up.
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Darren Dorrell
10/13/2023 06:51:40
I have to ask because I know the answer if it were my daughter and I --- do you and Gretchen speak the orcish conlang at home and when you are out in public together? That would be pretty Ayuuf! Love your books. I grew up in a small town and had a tight group of friends who had similar adventures together. Well, at least similar in our minds. I eagerly await your next adventure.
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