Hmmmm.... I don't think so. However, I would certainly agree that all Renegades have a certain dialect of their own. The NT and ST Renegades would probably have a piratish dialect of the crescent language, and Human Renegades would have that sort of 'Yo-ho-ho' kind of english dialect.

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Uhh, no offense, Carnotaur, but your languages look a bit like random scribbles to me.

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Well, actually, most of it is. However, what do you expect? I hand to write each and every one of those letters, and it took a long time. However, if you look carefully at the alphabets, you can see certain noticable patterns in a few alphabets. Just look REALLY carefully...

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Hey! The Emalgha are little people in various postures!

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I ask you to look both ways- for the road to the atom leads through the stars, and the road to the stars leads through the atom.

Hmmm.... I never really noticed that. Hmmm....

P.S. Look really carefully at the crescent alphabet. You'll see a similarity between most of the letters, and with the name 'Crescent'.

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I think that the Humans would use a similar language, also stemming from the original "Gadzair" language. In BTC (which is the best plug in ever made, great puzzles) it says that Humans began as one of the strands, so we would have a similar language to the strands.

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"And may not every one of the stars or suns have as great a retinue of planets with moons to wait upon them as has our own Sun?"
-Christiaan Huygens

Well, as you know, we don't. Our language is very different from the Old Strand (Gadzair) language. I myself don't exactly agree with the storyline on BTC. I've actually made up my own plot for the whole Council/Crescent thing in a plug-in that I'm still working on. As for the details, can't tell you. Wait for the plug-in, sorry.

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The council is sort of like a NATO. Formed of Azdgari, Igadzra, and Zidagar as wella s strandless and a very few old Gadzairs, it trys to stop the strand war and unite the strands once more. At least that's what I think.

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They might be intermixed with the strands, but I think that the Council is made up of the Fourth Strand, the Gadzair people, now split up (into all the strands) and now called the Council, who are the last remnants of the Gadzair race. Apparently when the Council was first formed, all the newly split up strands were fighting over Gadzair, and thus the Council destroyed the Gadzari colony, making the strands give up, and then became their sort of 'Council' hence their name.

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Originally posted by Jude:
**Quite interesting. I love linguistics. Have you studied (human) historical linguistics? It's fascinating, very difficult, and from what I've seen here, I think you would love it.
Jude

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For anyone interested in human linguistics, decipherment, or puzzles in general, I strongly recommend the (url="http://"http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/")Linguistic Olympics(/url) web page. In the Linguistic Olympics, which were started in Russia and have been introduced to North America by the University of Oregon, secondary school students compete at solving linguistic puzzles that require good reasoning skills but no particular background knowledge. The web site has some example puzzles as well as more information about the competitions themselves.

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Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:
**In BTC (which is the best plug in ever made, great puzzles) it says that Humans began as one of the strands, so we would have a similar language to the strands.
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Beyond the Crescent is not EVO canon, though.

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