{"id":68,"date":"2021-06-07T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2022-01-03T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:03:46","slug":"a-twist-develops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/a-twist-develops\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twist Develops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While researching I discovered this word:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>didera<\/strong> [di.\u02c8d\u025b.\u027ea] <em>n. neut<\/em> \u2022 invalid, a person disabled by illness or injury; (informal) unbeliever, heretic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The informal definition of this word really struck me. I had always thought the Lorthoans to be a kind and loving people, but even as this culture is deeply rooted in the power of nature, they, too, have their ways of removing those who do not follow &#8220;the way.&#8221; Thus, this opens a new door into the world surrounding this culture\u2014and created plenty of questions: Where do these unbelievers go? Do they have a dialect? Did they make an underground network or perhaps a secret form of communication with one another? Are they mortal enemies? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And other questions: Who ousts these <strong>diderane<\/strong> [\u02ccdi.d\u025b.\u02c8\u027ea.n\u025b] (plural of didera): Are there different factions or sects? Are there sympathizers? And a plethora more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In no other path during my research did I stumble upon these <strong>diderane<\/strong> which leads me to believe that the Lorthoans wrote them out of their history. Could it be the recent discovery I made with the <strong>loesheq<\/strong> [\u02c8l\u0153.\u0255\u026fq] (speakers of Dhakhsh)? Could <em>they<\/em> be the <strong>diderane<\/strong>? So many questions. I&#8217;m really curious what will pop up in my research. I will definitely take a closer look at Dhakhsh and see if there are any hints of this. Curious as I did discover that both cultures are aware of one another&#8217;s existence, so it is possible that the <strong>diderane<\/strong> could be the link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching I discovered this word: didera [di.\u02c8d\u025b.\u027ea] n. neut \u2022 invalid, a person disabled by illness or injury; (informal) unbeliever, heretic The informal definition of this word really struck me. I had always thought the Lorthoans to be a kind and loving people, but even as this culture is deeply rooted in the power &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/a-twist-develops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Twist Develops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,5,16,4,6],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conlang","tag-conworld","tag-culture","tag-lortho","tag-world-building","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lortho.conlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}