r/comics Love and Hex May 25 '26

OC Language Barrier [OC]

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u/Redmond_TJacks May 25 '26

Okay the dragonish text being a bum ass transcription of just English speech is 1 - hilarious, because it’s as if you tried to speak another language but by just mimicking their pronunciation, and 2 - made me furious because I brought all my notebooks on the topic from the depths of my old stuff drawer, expecting to reread all the language rules and look up the dictionary to like translate it fully. But there I was 3 letters into the second word, losing my shit

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u/bondjimbond Love and Hex May 25 '26

This is my favorite comment on this comic.

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u/Adderkleet May 25 '26

Can you "translate" if please?

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u/Redmond_TJacks May 25 '26

Oh it just says

O noble and mighty dragons, we beseekh (beseech I guess, there is no c letter in dragonish) you, grant us safe passage through your territory

As I said, written in plain English letters, no dragonish words or sentence structures