The words we build with

Definition

The world and the civilisation of the Dyad, considered as one. Use as the noun for the place: “the fall of Bionia.”

Word Study

Never Bionian for the place. Never Bionics.

Definition

The person and the adjective: “a Bionian,” “Bionian script,” “the Bionians.” Also the name of this site and the project as a whole.

Word Study

Capitalised always. As the project name, italics are not needed: Bionian.

Definition

Short form of the Bionian Dyad: the two bound worlds. Capitalised when it means these two; lower-case dyad is the common noun.

Definition

The fixed record. An entry is canon when it has been set down in the four-part house style — Definition, Derivation, Synonym Study, Word Study — and will not be contradicted without a note. Contrast lore.

Word Study

Lower-case as a common noun (“this is canon”); capitalised as the section title.

Definition

The remembered record: histories and fragments as they surface, allowed to be uncertain or superseded. Lore may become canon; canon does not go back to being lore.

Definition

The original tongue of the Dyad, from which — within the fiction — the reconstructed proto-languages of Earth descend as fragments. Roots are written root.

Word Study

Hyphenated, both parts capitalised. The asterisk convention is kept and repurposed; see the Disclaimer for the real-world caveat.

Definition

The Bionians now in mortal bodies on Earth and elsewhere, living in amnesia. Lower-case, with the article.