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O Ou'i arkavrohki laui azuya!
I wish you a happy birthday!
Literally “I - you - creation day - happy - wish”

Alternative: O Ou arkavrohki laui azuya-pa!
I wish your birthday is happy!
Literally “I - your - creation day - [happy  wish]-is!

A shorter alternative: Arkavrohki laui

#matoranlanguage #matoran #bionicle #organic #language #linguistics #worldbuilding #happybirthday #birthday

akrode [n.] promise (from akukha (to show/make known) and rode (truth))

akrodya [v.] to promise (from akukha (to show/make known), rode (truth) and the verbal marker -ya)

akrodui [adj.] promised (from akukha (to show/make known) and rodui (true))

Onua Akrodui, the Promised Land

nuhrii-flaming helped out a bit. It only took an hour and six minutes!

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boano |n.| organ (from bo (elemental plant-life; the Green; 2. living, growing, thriving), ahu (life) andno (Protodermis; substance)
boanu |adj.| organic (from bo (elemental plant-life; the Green; 2. living, growing, thriving), ahu (life), no(Protodermis; substance) and the adjectival marker -ui > -u to distinguish it from the noun. The omission of -o from no is to avoid an extra syllable.)
boanurhu |adj.| inorganic (from boanu (organic) and the negation particle -rhu.)
bokahano |n.| muscle (from bo (elemental plant-life; the Green; 2. living, growing, thriving), ka (power, energy, non-elemental ), ahu (life) and no (Protodermis; substance)
boleano |n.| lung (from bo (elemental plant-life; the Green; 2. living, growing, thriving), le (air), ahu (life) andno (Protodermis; substance)

Some words I came up with along with nuhrii-flaming. He came up with most of it, but I made bokahanu, except he rearranged the “ka” element.
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I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. It’s something that really bugs me, really bothers me. People never talk about jobs and occupations in alien cultures or worlds, or any fictional worlds, when they talk worldbuilding, when it, at least to me, is one of the most important aspects of a world. An alien species will have it different in their world, and so they will have different jobs than us, at least to some degree maybe. Like, if they have catterpillars that leave red residue, maybe they use that residude to create some kind of dye. Or maybe it’s something even more bizzare, or creative, imaginative. People just never talk about the jobs and occupations. Or would it fall under social activity? It really baffles me that it’s never really come up in any worldbuilding discussions… Some people talk about how your social status in an alien world depends on your job or something, but that’s not helpful haha. We all know it does,. It does in our world. Why wouldn’t it in other worlds? It’s more interesting to explore what kind of jobs aliens or fictional species of any genre. WIth different tech, environments, with different flora and fauna that has characteristics not seen in Earth fauna and flora, jobs and occupations, and the things you need to do to live, or be comfortable, or earn money or respect or whatever, is different. This applies to both alien species in science fiction or races in fantasy. I’ve been wishing that they would discuss this on the Writing Excuses podcast, which I follow religiously (writingexcuses.com/ it’s great, you need to listen to it, like, now). My friend, and science fiction writer Joe Kawano said I could write a guest blog post about this on his site, but I don’t know if I’m really qualified to do it, since I’ve written a lot less than probably most of the people in the group. I practically haven’t written anything since I was 17, though, except a few opening texts in a writing course at the school I just graduated from. But I hope I made the gears in all of your heads spin.

I can think of a few instances of jobs/occupations in fictional worlds, one being in The Legend of Korra where the firebenders use their lightning sub ability to shoot electricity into some kind of generators, presumably using them to power something, or maybe the entirety of Republic City. Another one is the many occupations of Matoran in Bionicle, like mask making, carving stone into sculpture or signs etc., but most of their jobs are inspired by human work.

I have found more news about STAR OF DELTORA, specifically about the first book in the series, SHADOWS OF THE MASTER. The book is set to be released in August of 2015. Yes, this year! I found this page scholastic.co.nz/trade/pdf/qui… which includes an official blurb for the book, which goes:

Britta of Del wants nothing less than to be the new Apprentice Trader of the Rosalyn fleet. Family and friends and even the terrible secret of her parentage will not stop her. But how can she succeed when her true identity must surely be guessed by Trader Mab, who knew her father, and the crew of the Star of Deltora? Relying on no more than her wits and the kind acts of friends she makes along the way, Britta is drawn closer and closer to her terrible destiny.

The book will cost $12.00 as an introductory price.