Dmc Devil May Cry English Language Pack
Iberio Ralda
This is quite a motley collection of branches, languages, and topolects, most of which are erroneously called such-and-such a dialect, and two of which are referred to as "-ese". Suzhouese and Minnan (no. 3) belong to completely different branches of Sinitic, while Wenzhou, Tianjin, Changsha, and Shanghai are cities, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Sichuan are provinces, and the Northeast is a region (used to be called Manchuria). Half of the items (5, 7, 8, 9, and 10) are considered to be types of Mandarin, though the degree of intelligibility among them varies greatly; the amount of intelligibility among the remaining five, and between those five and the five supposedly Mandarin types is zero or close to it. The five non-Mandarin types belong to or constitute separate, non-Mandarin branches of Sinitic.
The Chinese term for "devil-language" is guǐhuà 鬼话. Here it refers to the kind of language spoken by the devil, but in Mandarin it commonly has the extended meaning of "lie; nonsense; bullshit; deception; humbug".
Wenzhouese is generally thought of as a highly divergent member of the Wu branch of Sinitic (includes the languages of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai, etc.). In actuality, Wenzhouese should be considered as a group of languages, since several of its constituent varieties have a very low degree of intelligibility among them, as observed by commenter Harland:
If all of this talk about "devil language" and mutually unintelligible varieties of Sinitic teaches us anything, it is that "Chinese" is not a single, monolithic tongue and thousands of dialects that are all the same when written down (one of the grossest myths that is accepted by gospel truth by most people who know nothing about the real situation), but that it consists of innumerable languages and many branches that remain to be classified in a systematic fashion comparable to what we have for Indic, Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and so forth.
Based on the materials presented and referred to in the above and other Language Log posts, we need to keep the following caveats in mind when discussing questions of dialect and language in the Chinese context:
I imagine it is very hard to learn any language that has no written form, is spoken only among a fairly small community of like-minded speakers who share cultural and geographical references of which outsiders are not aware, and lacks a standardized "elite/educated" language that can bridge various regional variations within that language.
The devil mostly speaks a language of his own called Bellsybabble which he makes up himself as he goes along but when he is very angry he can speak quite bad French very well though some who have heard him say that he has a strong Dublin accent.
In German, I can slap -in on anything that shall be gendered. No exceptions (or at least I can't think of one at the moment, feel free to make me eat my words). The English version is -ess, but "deviless" is completely uncommon (although in the dictionary). "Devilette" is also used (as rarely), "she-devil" is almost always metaphoric. Methinks everyone (10x more Google hits) weasels out by using "demoness" (which is technically wrong from the mythological standpoint, but since you rarely meet one who gets annoyed by the wrong moniker...).
On a side note, your example case in German is a still a thing in German because German still has complete ternary grammatical gender as a core part of the language, and it is almost impossible for most people to fully divorce grammatical gender from personal gender when talking about people. See for comparison Swedish, which has merged the masculine and feminine genders (but kept the neuter, making it a bit of a black sheep in the Germanic language family), and is in a generally similar situation to English where explicitly gendered nouns are falling out of favor for general usage.
Gender isn't as big a feature of English as it is of German. Devil isn't a word with gender, though forms like she-devil or devil woman might be used to counter the default gender assumption among English speakers about devils.
I know this answer does not focus on whether one should write "female devil", "she-devil" or "demoness", but as I understand it, the OP was also interested in knowing whether there are other suffixes apart from -ess, -ette, and -trix that can be used to create the female counterpart.
So, a devil is not a male devil. It is more a term like human. Would you say "she-human" or "humaness"? More likely you'd refer to the devil by a more specific term. For demons there are Incubus and Succubus which refer specifically to male and female demons, respectively.
There are not any mythological or literary equivalents in English to the Incubus or Succubus. Most sources do not differentiate between devils and demons, and the terms are generally interchangeable. Modern literature and games have used the terms as to imply they are different, but that is a more modern distinction. Even the term "The Devil" is a fairly modern term, something arising from many older forms that generally translate to "Slanderer" or "One who lies". Devil and demon have both become synonymous with "evil, intelligent being".
In English "she-devil" is recognisably idiomatic from literature, and would seem to be the best option. You say it is mainly metaphoric, but beyond fiction, calling anyone a devil (other than the devil from Christian theology) is surely metaphoric? An example of this prefix in fiction that springs to mind is in Marvel comics, the female counterpart to the Incredible Hulk was named "She-Hulk".
The fact that English speakers do not generally change the nouns to indicate gender is one of the advantages of the language as compared to German, where "genderizing" is driving a schism into the population.
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The radio spot, on air for a total of seven days, will gradually change over time to reveal more clues to listeners. On the website, in addition to listening to the original ad, people can also check out the other eight tracks on the album, including an auditory tasting of the microbrewery's eight featured beers, all shared in the devil's language. Patient listeners will also discover little surprises hidden among the hidden tracks.
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A firm though jocular negative: colloquial: circa 1850-1910. Without says Punch it goes back to earlyish 17th century: Pepys uses it thus on 3 April 1668.
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Marxists have approached this problem in different ways, generally leaning on the notion that language is material, dynamic, and situational. None of the approaches have ever really delivered a philosophy of language that is technical enough to cope with what AI is doing now, and that means all roads to a left critique of the automation of language run through the most famous linguist of our era: Noam Chomsky.
To sign devil, form the number 3 sign with both hands as you hold each hand on either side of your temple (like the ears or horns of a mammal). Then as you pull both '3' hands down a short distance, bend the fingers that are sticking out, then repeat the gesture and motion a couple of times. Be sure to make a serious face as you sign 'devil'.
Teach your baby or toddler the devil sign in the context of Halloween costumes and characters, or when your baby hears someone say, "Why, you little devil?!" as they go chasing the naughty kid around the block. While it is good to introduce popular cultural icons and staples to our kids, let us also be careful to teach the contrasting signs (angel-devil, good-bad) in the light of the behaviors that are good, harmonious and acceptable to society, versus the ones that are harmful and bad.
The Infernal script.InfernalScriptInfernal[1]Spoken byDevils[1]Infernal was the language of the baatezu, a subtype of devils, and of the Nine Hells. Infernal was brought to Toril through contact with evil beings from other planes. It was described as harsh and alien in nature, since it developed among beings with thought patterns very unlike those of humanity.[2] Clerics often took the time to learn it,[3] and the Infernal alphabet was used to transcribe the Thayan dialect of the Mulhorandi language.[2] Apart from being used for communication between the devils, in its written form it was also used to pen down infernal contracts.[4]
The tongue of the lesser baatezu was equal to any mortal tongue in complexity, used to communicate abstract concepts such as honor or hate. It was less gravelly than the tongue of the least baatezu, though not exactly musical. Most non-devils who learned Infernal learned this variation of it.[5]
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