Learn Mando'a

Namewise I'd suggest something like...Miit'ganar, Wordsmith, or Joha, Language. Something rather specific to the spirit and activities of the group you know? Also the letters could work? The surrounding it in a circle that says knowledge and a sharp tongue might be a bit complicated, but I guess the...

Mando Mercs is definitely the way to go for resources I've found. Just dig around the forums and you'll find lots of stuff. Not just the tutorials either. Check out people's WIP threads and you can find some neat ideas. You can also find links there to some of the Dented Helmet resources. But if you...

Oh this is neat. I just started myself a week or two ago? Started out with cardboard and fiberglass resin but my cutting sucks badly. Also it's a pain. Next set I'll be using sintra. Gonna finish with the cardboard stuff though for practice with the materials. Also for something to paint with and to...

Alright. I have finally gone through the whole list. I've done my best to ensure that there are no repeats, but I'll have to go through this again to make sure because I know for a fact that there are still some there. Somewhere. But for now here is the list (which will probably need to be edited). ...

I'd imagine it'd be an affair for skraan'ikase possibly, given what's seen in I believe 501st. The scene where they have a "festival" type thing and Ny makes Kal cookies and shit. If you had the time to spend on such a thing. Like I guess if it fell around a time when someone returned back to the ma...

I still have no idea how to play this damned game.

Yay others are intrigued. I'm sorry I haven't gotten the vowel-consonant strings up. School and then getting sick has kind of gotten in the way. Only two more sets of words to get through though and I can type the thing up.

There's a traditional series of color meanings, though not everyone necessarily needs to adhere to them. Hell some Mandos in comics and the like have armor that isn't even one of the seven. Though I know some on the mercs forum have suggested the idea of colors like purple being of mixed meanings. A...

So one thing I really love in regards to languages is morphology, the way in which words are made. It's a pretty broad topic in terms of what it consists of, but things like "Can you compound two words to make a new word?" and "What are valid combinations of letters and sounds for a new word?" play ...

Ok I'll just share my two cents on it I guess because eh. Good for that fanfic I am working on. Anyway, I personally conceive of the Mandalorians as having a religion. It's not the most complicated religion, and it's exceptionally short on words and highly practical but it's still a religion. The Ma...

Finished a reread of Order 66 last night so I am kind of bummed. Class was canceled beyond showing the professor our thesis statements which was nice. Got to write the paper and have it done tonight though. So I can work on successive drafts and iron things out. Also kind of boggled by imagining wha...

Why so? Also do you want like our thoughts on Mandalorian religion as we conceive it? Or?

Arla as a boy's name doesn't sound that off to me, really. Or at all, honestly. Reason probably being that I know Pali, a language where both male and female names can end in "a". So like Mara is a name that would read to many as a woman's name, but I read it initially as a man's name because in Pal...

Now I am just thinking of the brown barbaloots wearing buy'ce and standing guard and I don't know how to feel about that. And oh! The idea that ba'buir is a shortening of buir'buir I like. It does still leave the question of how is ba'vodu aunt or uncle though, yes. However, perhaps, it isn't so muc...

That is...hard. My first inclination is that ba'buir's ba isn't related to the one in ba'balut and ba'gedet'ye. I am not sure what the ba in ba'buir could mean though if that's the case. With ba'gedet'ye my guess is that the ba is bah, which is the dative case basically? Which is...expressing that a...

I know it's an extremely obvious solution without making up a whole new root but I'm happy that we both independently came up with kursh'ika.

Oh? Comparing Resol'nare and Jedi Code with Christian doctrine? That sounds interesting. I've compared them in contrast with Gaelic polytheism and with Buddhism before. Resol'nare not really meshing well at with Buddhism, while the Jedi Code meshes far better. Whereas Gaelpol doesn't really interact...

Another attempt, again with another prayer. This time to a fictional character, because while I don't think she's literally real I do find a use in what is termed "popculture magic". Symbols are strong things. Mando'a: Ja'haili Te Regonoreth'ad Haar Troan be Kyr'am Kemi Naast be Jetiise, Cyare be Vh...

I'm honestly not sure what I'll do on Star Wars Day. I wanted to watch through the movies maybe, but turns out my brother has our copies of the films so that's out of the picture. I'll need to keep practicing on my Mando'a that day regardless. Maybe I'll go through and translate more of my prayers I...

I personally can't see them viewing it as a weakness. Certainly not the entire culture. Perhaps some of the more unpleasant hardliner groups in the culture, maybe. But as a whole that just seems off to me. My gut goes for cyclic, but then that is based mostly on my bias for cyclical perceptions of t...