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#206466 - 07/18/12 06:29 AM Exsangue
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	Hey guys, wow I haven't started a topic off for a while! Was trying to do a litcrit on a WiP for someone on another forum I visit and they were having issues with the word exsangue, right sort of meaning but not quite. They are looking for a latin/romance language word that means roughly "of the wrong blood", umm the wrong blood having copper rather than iron, if I surmise correctly and exsangue doesn't really hit on the meaning they're looking for. So, thought I, I shall be all knowledgeable and clever and go ask the word people on my favourite forum if they have any ideas for a word meaning what they want it to mean...then I can go back and report my findings (mentioning you of course! I won't take all´the credit ) Thanks guys, I look forward to the argument um discussion... _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#206467 - 07/18/12 06:53 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	What is the audience for this WiP?
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#206468 - 07/18/12 06:57 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	And what language is this WiP in? Exsangue does not appear to be an English word and as a French word it looks its meaning is not even of the right sort, but I'll leave that to people who have a much better command of French than I do.
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#206469 - 07/18/12 07:41 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: Faldage]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	Haha sorry, forgetting important info! I believe it to be Young Adult, it's in English, but fantasy, and the word would be in common use in the WiP world...the writer wants a Latin/Romance word...as it sounds a bit better than the English "wrong type of blood" as a caste type...but at the moment is stuck with exsangue...although they're very happy to swap to a better word...but unable to come up with one themselves, lacking the Latin or Romance language knowledge...thought we may be able to help _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#206470 - 07/18/12 10:51 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass	English does have the fine word exsanguination (and others), the process of draining or losing blood, which nicely aligns with F. exsangue, bloodless. fr. L. exsanguinatus, drained of blood I agree, this doesn't at all approach what the writer seems to want..
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#206471 - 07/18/12 11:57 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: tsuwm]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	How about Grecian? Anhemoglobinic blood. Sounds almost medically terminologically speaking plausible. The adjective could also be anhaemoglobine I suppose if in a UK context. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#206473 - 07/18/12 12:22 PM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	These days you can get away with pretty much anything in words for strange conditions in sci-fi and fantasy. Back in the Golden Age you had to explain everything because people weren't prepared to accept weird stuff without having it all laid out for them. It would be like if, in writing about a 20th century storyline, having one of the characters say, "You know, of course, when you change the position of this switch the circuit is completed and it allows the electricity to flow through the filament in the light fixture causing it to emit photons." Nowadays you can say, "He slid the cube into the reader and pulled up all the information he needed to refute his opponent's fallacious arguments." I like Nuncle Z's suggestion but might use cupro- instead of anhemo-.
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#206474 - 07/18/12 12:57 PM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	They do both sound good...I think, those with copper in their blood can do a certain type of magic, which is illegal unless you are born into certain families/crafts sort of thing...so it's a name for a caste of people really I think, who have the wrong blood, from the excerpt up for critique it seems they get killed...so anything that could cover that, I think Greek probably counts as an option on Latin, so I'll expand it to Latin, Greek or Romance languages...a couple of people have suggested, and put up their lack of Latin, so only as a guess "malasangue", "essangue" "insangue", "unsangue" and "utsangue"...but the discussion is still trying for more of a wrong blood, not of the correct blood etc _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#206477 - 07/19/12 09:17 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	You've been reading some very shoddy Sci-Fi then Faldage! Although I suppose it does depend on the hardness how well explained the technology will be...any more exsangue improvements are welcome... _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#206479 - 07/19/12 12:55 PM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	The shoddy sci-fi was stuff from the so-called Golden Age, back in the '30s and '40s. They really did feel that they had to explain things because the audience wasn't quite tuned into the genre. That's not the case any more.
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