Nominal Distinctiveness

Before the series on Creationism continues, there's a little issue that needs to be sorted out. 'The Radiant' is a terribly overused epithet in fantasy and games, and upon realising this, it no longer appeals to my fringe sensibilities. 'The Radiant' was, after all, a filler name, given in place of 'The Shining Wings', which proved to be awfully clunky to type repeatedly. On a tangent, most of the names I've given my characters in the some twenty thousand words of the draft are filler names, what with Tas Eldwaraj still being a conlang with morphemes in flux.

The name I've decided to go with is 'The Luminosa', which is another expression of the fact that I may have been studying Latin a little too much. Even the article is setting me off. Perhaps it should just be 'Luminosa'. I'm conceiving it as a Latin second declension neuter plural, but since I am, jarringly, writing in English, I have decided on an adjectival and demonymic form of 'Luminosan'. First, luminosa is already an adjective derived from lux, lucis, and second, Rome, Roman; Greek, Grecian. It felt classically appropriate. Certainly not a Luminosite or Luminosese.

I hope to continue working on Tas Eldwaraj sometime soon, after I'm done with Wheelock's Latin, and when my order for a book on Sindarin comes through. Learning Latin has so expanded my understanding of grammar that I feel like I cannot continue developing my own language until I learn more about languages and grammar in general. I hope not to end up in a situation where I am calling something a 'verbal action noun' when there is a perfectly good term like 'gerund'.

I don't think I'll bother going back to change all the names of my earlier posts in accordance with this one. This can serve as the marker between posts utilising 'The Luminosa' and those employing 'The Radiant'.