Fluccish

Definition

Fluccish is the common extramuros vernacular of the Sæculum (world outside maths), contrasted with Orth (formal mathic language). Avout (math-bound monastics) use it when addressing visitors, conducting everyday dealings outside the walls, or choosing a tone that feels natural in worldly settings.

Context and Usage

• Gate challenges and formal address: At Orithena, a gatekeeper addressed a visitor in locally accented Fluccish before switching to Orth on request, illustrating both regional accents and routine code-switching at controlled entrances.
• Public openings: Fluccish is heard prominently during Apert (ten-day opening) when visitors enter and tours are given; intramuros speakers switch to it to be understood by crowds and guests.
• Travel and coordination: In movements toward a Convox (rare mass assembly), groups often keep precise, internal discussion in Orth and provide ad hoc summaries or switch into Fluccish in mixed Peregrin (sanctioned avout travel) settings.
• Bilingual code-switching in practice: In Old Mahsht, avout from the Ringing Vale said those who speak Fluccish sought ship transport; in the same encounter, a Valer translated a Fluccish aside into Orth for fellow avout, illustrating routine switching between the two registers when outsiders are present.
• Shorthand for outside talk: A narrator describes traveling through wild country without seeing towns or “hearing a word of Fluccish,” using the language as an emblem of ordinary extramuros life.
• Religious communities: Deolater groups commonly read scripture translations in Fluccish; some isolated sects may study Classical Orth to avoid relying on translators. Local pronunciations of Orth can sound rough to avout but remain intelligible.
• Register signaling and vocabulary: Speakers sometimes mark a term explicitly as Fluccish while speaking Orth (for example, calling out the Fluccish word “picnic”). Everyday vocabulary includes tools and vehicles (e.g., “fetch”), and idioms shift quickly across regions.
• Administrative jargon: In a Convox setting, a speaker flagged “management” as a Fluccish term; several avout did not recognize it until another translated, highlighting that business and bureaucratic vocabulary can be opaque inside maths and may require glossing.

Related Terms

Orth; Sæculum; Convox; Peregrin; Sline