EVE Fiction

well what ive figured from the Napanii primer from thats been used for reference in caldari language for a while now in backstage and here. (which you can find by googling "Napanii primer") the vocals are a lot similar to finnish combined with japanese languages use of syllables.

i find it something of a shame that our Japanese friends haven't taken up EVE fiction same manner as most since id love to figure it out more with someone that's familiar with traditional songs, poems and stories and do something of a comparison between the two to see if we could find parallels in the Napanii primer. since what Ive understood Japanese doesn't have the suffix structures that are so flexible that they can change meanings of most words very easily, which makes Finnish so bloody difficult language (its fairly hard for even us native speakers)

that last bit might be over-thinking or over-analysis on my part :)

In the EvE universe, and especially in the subculture of Pod-pilots, I can certainly imagine a band like Disaster Area to exist.

I would even buy a ticket!


And then watch the show in an over-tanked Abaddon from orbit.....

CCP have often mentioned that the sound and music in EVE eventually needs to be looked at. Would racial music be a possibility? Even without lyrics?

So when's your first hit single coming out then?

I'm not Japanese, but I'm a 'Japanophile' who studied the language and traditional culture and lived in the country a few years. True, Japanese nouns don't change as they do in Western languages. There's not much emphasis on changing nouns depending on whether it is the subject, or the object or singular or plural. The verbs do change, depending on the meaning to be expressed. For example:
-taberu - to eat/will eat [in the future]
-tabeta - ate
-tabete iru - is eating
-taberareru - to be eaten/will be eaten
-tabesaseru - to be made to eat (to be fed) /will be made to eat (fed)

If you're using more polite/formal speech, then there's a different verb ending you use. For example, taberu becomes tabemasu and tabeta become tabemashita. There's also a super-polite form, but that's like a whole different set of vocabulary. Crude tabeta (ate) gets booted out, in favor of meshiagata ("rice (food) rose up").

But generally, the verb endings are about the only grammatical rules to learn in Japanese. The nouns and adjectives don't change much, so as you said, it's a very flexible language. In some ways the flexibility can make the language seem vague and imprecise in conveying information. Which is kind of the way Japanese culture likes it. But on the other hand, it is very expressive poetically or psychologically, because it has a huge lexicon of very subtle and nuanced adjectives and nouns to use. A single Japanese word might have meanings that would take a whole sentence English sentence to explain.

Anyway, sorry to ramble on about a favorite topic. If you want to do some comparisons on Finnish and Japanese language and music, let me know. I know nothing at all of Finnish, and I'm just a foreignor who studied Japanese as a foreignor, but I'll contribute what I can.