WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TAUTTIYI PART 3

SOME USEFUL TAUTTIYI SIGNS
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Aside from the gutteral and phlegmy Tauttiyi language, the Tauttiyi generally speak the language of whatever planet they reside on (Byazarese and Nitarikit for Byazar, Rahaaral, Ókólam, etc., Lozhman for the Lozhman Empire, English for Earth). But we prize our secrecy, and more, we love confusing others, even other Tauttiyi. And so we often talk in a code called "Ashkej Fedzël" ("String Speak") that some romantic xenolinguists take to be an actual pidgin language influenced by many outside languages. This mistake's understandable: It's not uncommon for two Tauttiyi from different clans and tribes to have long conversations in Ashkej Fedzël, and for these conversations to lead to shouting, roaring, tears, bloodshed, and finally passion, even though neither party knows what the other's saying.

But if they lack a true pidgin, our species do share a written language, a system of glyphs supplanted with the Tauttiyi alphabet scrawled on signs and fences and fence posts as greetings (or warnings) from one Tauttiyi to the next. The symbols themselves are crude-usually just a few carvings or paint lines. This simplicity makes them easier to recall by the journey-addled Tauttiyi, and largely invisible to Shallëmarwaj (outsiders).

But the alert traveller may catch sight of a secret message that hasn't yet been erased by the elements. They draw a crude portrait of the Tauttiyi life, his or her interests, fears, and preoccupations, especially with the occult.

"Good Source of Fresh Grass"
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"Flynn-Fletcher House"
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"Garcia-Shapiro House"
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"Tjinder House"
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"Buford's House"
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"Hirano House"
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"Brown House"
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"Doofenshmirtz House"
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"Eliza's House"
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"Jeremy's House"
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"Coltrane's House"
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"Curtez's House"
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"Myles' House"
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"Damon's House"
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"An Avder Woman Lives Here Who Loves Triangles"
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"Great Place to Just Mellow Out"
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"Here Lozhmans Tell You to Fuck Off"
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"Karsililnaang Accepted Here"
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"Keep Quiet, Especially about Lizards"
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"Good Flow Charts Here"
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"Here Lives a Rich Man"
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"Here Lives a Gentleman"
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"The Toilets in this Town are Messy"
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"There's an Awesome Hedge Maze in this Town"
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"Watch Out! Bay Patrolled by trained sharks"
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"This House's Well-Guarded"
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"This House Looks Strangely Familiar"
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"This House's Bigger on the Outside than it is on the Inside"
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"Here's a Chant Zone"
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Some Tauttiyi claim to be able to psychically communicate in order to summon weather, signal for aid, bring about misfortune and impotence, or merely gossip, but only so long as they stand on certain natural psychic hot spots. Some have speculated that the Tauttiyi's chief desire is to visit all of these spots in the galaxy, with the belief that when he or she has done so, the Tauttiyi will be transported to Thosalwe (Kasu'emite heaven). This Kasu'emite heaven is reputed to be a beautiful temperate planet of fruit trees and lakes of milk.

"Good Insects Here"
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Since my species have the power, in sufficient number, to summon insect swarms via group telepathy (allegedely), good sources of insects are marked with this ideogram.

"It's Time to Overthrow the Government of the United Moons"
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This sign had never been seen before May 7, 567 BC, when it suddenly appeared on fences and on the doors of malls across the moons, and in stranger, bolder places as well: carved into sandwiches at fast food restaurants, painted on policemen's backs, and most famously, stamped into a Dzusyite crop field on such an enormous scale that it was reputed to be seen by the archduke in his chopper, 146 feet above the moon. Mij'zar was said to have been so unnerved by the sight that he dropped the giant steak he was gnawing and in a thin voice exclaimed, "The time hath come: The Qoptin shall kill us all." He began constructing his robotic militia the next day.

"Uranus"
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This is the astrological symbol for Uranus, though it's only recently been adopted by the Tauttiyi. Discovered by humanity in 1781 but furst discovered by the Ryagdöm in 915 BC, Uranus upended the human belief that the Solar System terminated at Saturn, and thus it came to symbolize the breaking of the old Earth ideologices and the rejection of orthodoxy; in pan-species astrology, it's the ruling planet of occultists, inventors, and dropouts. But my species likes it because it looks funny and because it sounds funny.


Next Chapter: Further Information You Can Use Today Part 1: Five Secrets of Successful Negotiation, How to Win a Fight, Short Words For Use on Cloakships to Preserve Air, and Some Earth And Rahaarite Telephone Numbers beginning with "666" and "1442".

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Reviews and Answers:

thedoraemons7: Tauttiyi don't speak Albanian, although our language does incorporate the same umlaut-topped "ë" sound as Albanian. Tauttiyi is an extraterrestial language, whilst Albanian (Shqip/Tosk) is a member of the Illyrian Branch of the Indo-European family. The Tauttiyi "j" is pronounced like the "j" in "jam", while the Albanian "j" is pronounced like the "y" in "yard" or "Yar" ("Jar" hehe). Albanian does have a j-sound, but in that language it's represented by "Xh" (Hoxha, Gonxha). Both languages are very wierd indeed.