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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 20:03:09 JST Jacek Wesołowski

   Sometimes I'm reminded how in Polish there's the worm colour and the herb colour, there are the months: the cold one, the flowery one, the month of sickles etc. and the currency name can be plausibly translated as "gold pieces", and I get the impression that all you need to create a fancy-sounding fantasy setting is to speak a foreign language.

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     Joni Korpi (jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 20:18:22 JST Joni Korpi

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     @jzillw Very good point! In Finnish we have at least Oakmonth, Pearlmonth, Wheatmonth, and uhh… Deathsignmonth? The archaic words hidden in there are especially fantastic, after looking up their etymologies.

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     javascripl (javascripl@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 20:56:51 JST javascripl

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     @jzillw wow... and it keeps going on! The month where leaves fall, the color of the sky and more.

     One of the most interesting for me is the church, which can be read as the place of bones – because of church cemeteries?

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 20:58:24 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • robryk

     @robryk Czerwony, derived from czerw. The color of an earthworm, basically.

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     robryk@qoto.org's status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 20:58:25 JST robryk

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     @jzillw I can't decipher worm color