LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION

Being that the dragons of Pern are telepathic, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish whether it is a person or a dragon or another native creature speaking. Pern RPG uses the following formats for speech:

"........" People speaking to anyone/anything
<<......>> Dragon to Rider
>>......<< Rider to Dragon
><......>< Dragon to Dragon
<*......*> Dragon to NonRider/Other rider
>*......*< NonRider/Other rider to Dragon
~~......~~ Firelizard emoting and sending images
**......** Dolphins speaking aloud
>~......~< Wherhandler to Wher
<~......~> Wher to Wherhandler

Additionally provided is a list of Pernese swearing or cussing terms. Feel free to use them in your role play and if you can avoid earth terms, all the better.

Pernese Maledict
Created by Anne McCaffrey © 2002

Wherry teeth: nonsense; I don’t believe you
Crackdust, shards: equivalent to “horse poop” or said in disbelief
That’s well dusted: It’s nasty or unpleasant
He was born under the Red Star: someone evil or generally disliked.
Bend a tail: defecate, take it and lump it
A hunk of firestone: all gas and ash: a blowhard
Tail fork first: backward
Wherry hunt: “wild-goose chase”
Like trying to draw an inside straight in Bitra: impossible
Hatching fire lizards: building castles in the air
Shaffit!: irritation expletive, another word for the D word
Chew it raw and swallow: accept the inevitable. Take it and believe it
A dragon among the wherries: a cat among the pigeons
Smokeless weyrling: useless
Scorch It: Shove it
By the first egg: Over my dead body
By the Egg of Faranth: Really over my dead body: Or I swear it on my grave
By the shards of my dragon’s egg: over my grandmother’s dead body
Shells: any one of the four letter words
Deadglow: numbskull; dumb poop
Take a long hop between: Go Away!

Note: There is also Dimglow and a few other words that are in the books that may not be listed here. Or the way they are phrased, such as 'sharding' or 'shards and shells'.

If you have any questions about the game or website, you can contact us from the game itself at PernRPG
Just click on a player name in the header of the note and click the email link in the pop-up. Staff Members are LordRamage, LadyRamage, Lynne, Maira, Myuu and PixelBead



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