*snickers*

[bedlamsbard]

Dude, you know what I suddenly want to write? Fic where Caspian gets temporarily transported to the Golden Age, if only for the Peter and Edmund banter.

Edmund: So, who is he?
Peter: He says he's the king of Narnia.
Edmund: Does this mean we've been having some sort of extended identity crisis? I know! You're really a fisherman, and you're so repressed about it that you can't go on the open sea without throwing up.
Caspian: ...
Edmund: Or a pigkeeper. You'd make a brilliant pigkeeper...
Peter: Well, he's clearly not the king of Narnia.
Edmund: No, he doesn't look very Narnian. Westerlands, probably.
Peter: Caspian isn't a Natarene name.
Edmund: Does sound a bit Telmarine, though.
Caspian: The Telmarines have been at peace with Narnia for two years now!
Peter: Did they get that message?
Edmund: No, they didn't. They were still raiding over our border last I heard. I think Lu's taking care of that.
Caspian: ...
Edmund: [unpronounceable gargle of foreign words]
Caspian: ...
Peter: Well, he doesn't seem like he speaks Telmarine.
Caspian: ...of your courtesy, my lords, perhaps this conversation would go easier if I knew who you were.
Edmund: Definitely not Telmarine. I think they use your profile for target practice in Telmar.
Peter: I am Peter the High King of Narnia, and this is my brother, King Edmund of Narnia.
Caspian: [brain explodes]
Edmund: [kindly] This is why you can't be the king of Narnia.

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Edmund: [unpronounceable gargle of foreign words]
Is the old tongue of Telmar Spanish-y in Bedlamverse? I'm very charmed by the way fandom has so latched onto this bit of movie canon and ran with it. I mean, not as much as people have ran with Caspian/Susan and Caspian/Peter, but still. There are a few fics now that ponder or at least mention the Spanish language thing, one I read that mentions flamenco dancing, and there are probably other little Spain-y details in other fics that I can't remember.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Huh, I haven't thought about it. Most likely it's got strong Spanish influence, but it's probably more of a creole. Depending on whose timeline you go off of -- I use Lewis's timeline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narnian_timeline) only loosely, since I write movieverse -- the Telmarines have been in Narnia for around 1500 years by the time of PC. While in Lewis's canon, there aren't other countries to the west, my person canon considers that they are, and that they speak a different language than Narnia (things we will not discuss: why the Pevensies understand Narnian. Magic, magic, magic). So the old Telmarine language is a creole formed out of Spanish and the westerling tongue, but by the time the Telamrines come to Narnia, it's been bastardized further. The current Narnian tongue probably has a lot of loan words from the westerling languages (one of these days, I will think about this further and figure out an Earth language to base them on; like Lewis, the majority of my Narnian location-names -- Arn Abedin, the river Elif, some other stuff I don't currently remember -- come from bastardized Old English). In fact, if it wasn't for magic, Peter and Co. would probably have a hard time understanding anything the New Narnians are saying, and vice versa.

Oh, this is interesting, I hadn't thought about this.