Lowspeak
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Example sentences
Sentence | Literal translation | Meaning |
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"Pabatspal bahobo yi tolmat!" | Command not speak, dammit to hell or I vengefully kill! | Shut up or by the devil I'll slit your throat! |
"Vind mi dabakya bevakya ure." | Equal we studs war reproduction you. | We are the studly fellows you need for your war reproduction efforts. |
"Be gaba akyayaee!" | You will be my whore! | I'm gonna make you my bitch! |
- "Haja clyvre trap." = put your sword where your mouth is.
- "...waft ghaund puss." = ...smells like a cat.
- "Es vind boalla brenpug ob trotfaf preen." = It's just a dog and pony show.
- "Ob pazhee uyi vind ghaundmert." = And now we have become death.
Common phrases
Sentence | Literal translation | Meaning | Subtext |
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"Mi baxi." | We feast. | Glory is ours. / We're in fat city. | Generally, luck has been found, or hard work has paid off. |
"Patleer trelliea." | Command-search pine forest on hilly land with some clearings, magical trees, and magical inhabitants that will be ours in a little while, maybe. | Dream on. | You're crazy. / Bullshit. Used similarly to "Hey, and I've got a bridge to sell you." |
"Yi yahoo." | I woman yours. | I am your woman. | Depends on context, usually either implies "I'm yours to ravage" or, "You're mistreating me"; sometimes both. |
"Yi spamube." | I told you again and again . | I told you so (yet you didn't listen). | "Next time, pay attention" or, "Admit it, I was right, you were wrong." |
"Yi beie jengya." | I one who will be joining us whiny, difficult woman. | Soon you will be my problem. / I'm doomed to be married. | I will take care of you, but you're not worth my time. |
"Be vind urlakyaya." | You are a tall tree prostitute. | You are a tree whore. | A somewhat-common general insult. |
- "Nope bemert!" = Don't you die!
- "Tsab bekes." = May the spirits guard you.
Word segments
- bev-
- war, battle, combat
- bevta-
- war conducted for punishment
- bevto-
- war conducted for vengeance
- duo-
- partners, pair, clone, exact copy
- gnar-
- tooth
- grep-
- explore, search, hunt
- gul-
- death through battle
- haj-
- trade
- kes-
- watch, guard, protect
- liz-
- knowledge
- loz-
- magic
- mat-
- kill
- rock-
- stone, rock, hardness, solid, firm
- spal-
- tell, say, advise, recommend
- spam-
- tell again and again; overtalkative; too verbose
- tol-
- revenge, vengence
- url-
- tall tree
- vi-
- main part, core, heat of battle, most important piece
- vop-
- green, vegetation
- zo-
- victim, prey, something to be hunted
- a-
- pre-, before, ante-
- ado-
- again, re-
- bo-
- non-
- e-
- extra-, super-, especially
- o-
- post-, after
- ra-
- un-, de-, undo, reverse
- alla-
- all, every
- garg
- creature of the night; gargoyle
- nash-
- missing, lost
- tar-
- to gather, summon, bring together
- og-
- brute; dimwitted but powerful
- lib-
- collection, assembly
- nog-
- head, top, mind
- feng-
- stupid
- vic-
- morally impure; depraved; taboo
- tux-
- patriotism, honor
- kip-
- swipe, steal, pluck out, take away, remove
- lok-
- done, complete, finished
- zun-
- appears, looks
- zug-
- good, well, better
Powerful phrases (beginning with k, t, ts, b, d, p, x, and qu)
- bax-
- food (food consumption)
- dab-
- assist, help
- kat-
- foot or paw; limb in general
- nok-
- hand, talons, claws, or hook; manipulator
- khar-
- ash, cinder, sometimes dust; utterly destroyed thing
- pa-
- overly, especially, strongly, enhanced, more
- pat-
- command, demand, instruct
- pix-
- split, break, tear, slash, cut
- pod-
- living, healthy, well.
- quer-
- enemy, foe, danger, challenge
- tsa-
- wise, old
- tsab-
- ancestral spirit, non-corporeal undead, ghost
- hoap-
- loop, knot, circle
- bah-
- damn to hell
- mert-
- death
- bat-
- stop, cease, end, quit
Weak phrases (beginning with y, w, f, or j, and sounds like ng, sh, and th)
- faf-
- young, new, befitting a child
- spaw-
- ask, plead, beg
- shew-
- unworthy loser, one not worth fighting
- thresh-
- sleep, unconciousness, lack of control
- vash-
- weak, poor, sick, infirm
- wath-
- weep, cry
- fiolf-
- field grass
- soly-
- meandering river
- fff-
- quietly, silent
Suffixes
- -ak
- male
- -ap
- skillful male, clever one
- -jeng
- bad, wrong, evil (in humanoids' viewpoint)
- -to
- feminine
- -ud
- strong male, powerful one
- -ux
- virile male, person acquiring wealth, prolific one
- -ya
- female
- -al
- brotherhood, warrior band, battlegroup
- -aka
- tribe or family
- -pa
- people; village or city
- -i
- plural, many (proper, can also double the word)
- -oo
- yours
- -ee
- mine
- -eo
- ours
- -ae
- theirs
- -ie
- something that will be ours pretty soon
- -iea
- something that will be ours in a little while, maybe
- -zhee
- time; now; presently
- -gin
- bone, deflesh, inside, core
- -re
- weapon
Dictionary
- adofaf
- refreshed
- ak
- he
- akya
- sex, intercourse, reproduction
- akyabev
- rape
- akyajeng
- birth defect; sexual disease or problem; infertility
- akyaya
- prostitute, whore
- albe
- comrade, friend
- batzhee
- end of time; the finish; apocalypse
- baxa
- to eat
- baxi
- to feast
- be
- you
- beie
- one who will be joining us
- bevak
- victory
- bevakya
- reproduction to prepare for war
- bevjeng
- lost war; war that is progressing badly
- bevlozak
- battle magic
- bevmatak
- a warrior
- bevmatap
- a skilled warrior; a battle leader
- bevtoakya
- reproduction to prepare for vengeance
- bevux
- war
- bleah
- distasteful
- bo
- not
- bogah
- something never before seen; thought to be impossible
- bozhee
- not right now; some other time
- cak
- male, man
- cya
- female, woman
- dabak
- helper, assistant
- dabakya
- sexual assistant; stud
- es
- it; that; this
- frot
- desire; want; would like
- gah
- was
- gabo
- will be
- ghaund
- are characterized by
- gulux
- man's corpse killed in battle (honorable death)
- gulya
- woman's corpse killed in battle or while raped (honorable death)
- haja
- to trade
- hajux
- an orcish or humanoid trader or merchant
- hajzoux
- a human trader or merchant
- jengak
- criminal
- jengakya
- unproductive or unenjoyable intercourse
- jengux
- imbecile, fool
- jengya
- difficult woman; one who whines incessantly.
- kesap
- king
- leer
- look, spy, search
- liza
- to meet
- lizgulloz
- the study of necromancy
- lizi
- to train, study
- lizoo
- for your information; did you know
- lozjeng
- evil (bad, wrong) magic
- matak
- one who kills
- matapi
- stylish assassin
- matjeng
- murder
- nope
- no
- ob
- and
- obo
- or
- orc
- orc
- orcak
- male orc
- orcya
- female orc
- ozhee
- later in time, tomorrow, in the future
- patbat
- to quit immediately; desist
- patzhee
- immediately, right now
- razhee
- never; not while I live
- sher
- pine and deciduous forest with very few hills
- ro
- they
- tab
- with
- tabo
- without
- thresha
- to rest
- threshi
- to rest in style
- tolmat
- to kill for revenge; payback; tit-for-tat;
- trell
- pine forest on hilly land with some clearings, magical trees, and magical inhabitants
- tsablozud
- honored ancestral spirits
- ube
- you guys
- uro
- those guys
- uyi
- we, us, our family
- vind
- are the same as; equal; is
- ya
- she
- yep
- yes
- yi
- I, me
- zjoakya
- someone to be raped
- rockhoap
- armored
- keshoap
- to set up a perimeter, to guard all about
- kesre
- shield
- keshoapre
- guarded perimeter, encircled, covered, protected
- Spaleo
- Lowspeak
- ahp
- wait
- tsaliz
- wisdom
- shewya
- worthless woman
- querya
- feisty woman, a tease
- spal
- tell me what the news is
- grak
- thanks
- mitu
- So do I
- hail
- hello; hi; greetings
- troogle
- troll
- toggle
- small annoying creature; gremlin
- piss
- spill, bleed, leak, urinate
- ptu
- spit, shoot out, eject, splash out
- raka
- alone, single, one, loner, hermit, just, only
- aye
- yes sir; I shall comply;
- shewak
- coward
- matallapa
- kill them all
- bevaka
- fighting for your tribe/home
- bevpa
- fighting for one's race
- bevbev
- fighting for sport
- bevhaj
- fighting for profit; mercenary
- bevap
- fighting to prove superiority
- vashzopa
- human
- shewzopa
- elf
- rockzopa
- dwarf
- brennog
- innocent
- ogpa
- ogre
- bevpix
- sabotage
- heftre
- heavy wooden club
- rockre
- metal or stone club or mace
- parockre
- maul
- pixre
- axe
- papixre
- battleaxe
- clyvre
- sword
- skewre
- spear
- paskewre
- pike
- papa
- neighbor
- trap
- mouth
- grin
- smile
- nogtsak
- elder
- noggin
- skull
- botsaliz
- unwise
- fengnog
- dummy; stupid person
- leer nogee
- read my mind
- gnarpa
- wolf
- bonog
- unintelligent
- ranog
- nevermind; forget what you're thinking
- rajeng
- Not a problem
- kipre
- thief; person or thing that takes
- bogrin
- you seem troubled
- puss
- cat
- pug
- small dog
- bren
- beauty, pure
- cob
- foot, bottom
- ped
- walk
- cobre
- kicking boot
- trot
- run
- trotre
- warhorse
- trotpa
- horses
- preen
- show off; display; act; pander
- preenre
- makeup
- glob
- make, create, build
- stazt
- quick solution;
- staztux
- mad hacker; prolific person
- kespiss
- mark territory, pissing around, territorial squabble
- kesjeng
- Police
- ull
- but; yet; though
- alull
- although; however; on the other hand
- waft
- smell, sniff, odor
- waftre
- poison gas
- mertallapa
- death to the masses
- ghaundmert
- deathly
- lizmert
- study of death
- mertak
- dead corpse
- lozmertak
- undead
Inflections
Because lowspeak is used by a number of different kinds of creatures, many of whom lack the ability to show facial expressions. As well, context is usually difficult to glean from vocal inflections. Thus, lowspeak includes a number of short vocalizations that provide emotion-hints.
Commonly, these expressions are repeated multiply to indicate degree. For instance, "ah ah ah" means, "WHOA! WAITAMINUTE!" and "t't't'" means "Read my words with a huge grain of salt."
- ah
- wait; hold on a sec
- dah
- gotcha; I'm listening; so far so good; keep going
- uff
- interesting problem; fun fight; good challenge
- bah
- frustration; I give up; this is impossible
- bebo
- "not you"; ack, you got me there; you bested me; "uncle!"
- wew
- sorrow, disappointment; I hate that
- pa
- good work has been done; praise and glory
- t'
- sarcasm; the opposite was really meant
- op
- Oh really?
- yima
- You know? Do you understand what I say?
- tsa
- Agreed; you speak wisdom
- fff
- Shh, be quiet, don't say that
- albe
- welcome back. "Friend!" or "Ally!"
- alpatz
- I must go for now, but don't count me out, I shall be back soon
- alozhee
- Goodbye friends, I shall be gone for a long time (or perhaps forever)
- aka
- "Hello, family" "I've returned"
- dabliz
- I would like to know more please explain
- vas
- I didn't hear you, please speak louder
- ull
- Hmm, I'm uncertain. I'm not sure it's true.
- adoado
- Again and again, over and over, etcetera
- waya
- Anyway; to make a long story short; to come to the point
- raliz
- I don't know; No clue.
- spalzhee
- What's new? Tell me the news now
- tolie
- revenge will be ours
- oliza
- see you later
- adoliza
- hope to meet you later
- pagrep
- Search well! (like Good luck!)
To-do list
Lowspeak for:
- afraid so
- tail, end
- you talk to one of us, you talk to all of us
- you bastards
- Should we take prisoners or just kill them?
- I am surprised
- are you ready or are you not?
- you have your orders
- I am counting on you
- come to the point
- as good as done
- I'm okay
- welcome
- canon fodder
- most impressed
- why is this boy talking to me
- dismissed
- a test for the strength of one's heart
- darkside
- respect
- Promise
- I hate to see a sloppy thief win
- I could have handled it
- interfere
- cultist
- how many drinks to make you a friend for life?
- is that a challenge?
- too busy
- Who do you serve?
- Who do you trust?
- Who are you?
- What is your mission?
- This is one fight I'd do best to stay out of
- I'll just walk it off
- es _ _
- it won't last long
- _ bo
- probably not
- Es frot _
- that alright with you?
- Es bo-_
- it wasn't me
- bo _ _
- not my fault
- _ be _
- now you make it work
- es _ pa _
- that is a good idea
- _ _ naka _
- we've got only one chance
- Be _ _ piss
- You made me spill
- Be _ _ _ raka
- You're on your own
- liz-
- smart alek
- hoap-
- surrounded
- hups
- Oh no, not again.
- clyv
- slice, carve, shave, cut, slash
- pix
- chop, split, break, tear, hack
- nogpix
- behead
- nogclyv
- headwound; to scalp
- vashnog
- crazy, deranged, nuts
- bahnog
- wickedly evil
- kipnog
- possessed; soulless
- ognog
- merciless
- patnog
- chieftain