Steemjammer: The Deeper Truth
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At first, he wondered if he was being truthful. After discovering how to lie at Texel, he realized he could do it whenever he wanted, and so he had to be careful. It still didn’t feel right, but the major inhibition was gone. That was dangerous, he realized, because he feared the wrong kind of lie might actually cause harm.
Thinking about the lump of Tracium in his pocket and all they’d gone through, he realized he hadn’t lied to make her happy. He did believe they’d find their missing parents, though it might take a great deal of inspiration and work. Looking at her, he remembered how happy she’d been on seeing him return from Texel and what an important role she’d played at the end.
“I’m glad you’re so good with that sling,” Will said, beaming a proud smile at her. “We wouldn’t be here if you weren’t. You must have really goot steem.”
“Thanks,” she said, blushing from the compliment. “Then you must have ultra-wankenzink goot steem. I’m glad you didn’t lose it, even if I don’t understand why.”
“I don’t, either.”
“Really?”
Instead of automatically saying yes, he realized she expected more from him.
“Maybe,” he said, “not understanding is the whole point. Mom and Dad knew the rules they taught us wouldn’t fit all situations, but seeing deeper truth would get us through. Somehow it did.”
A chill breeze hit them, and while shutting a window that had been left open, Angelica had a thought.
“So, you’re basically saying,” she said, trying to keep a straight face, “that there’s ‘no such thing as cold,’ even though I just got a shiver.”
Too tired to laugh, Will grinned. “Yeah. That pretty much sums it up.”
She could barely keep her eyes open. Blowing out the candles, Will walked her to her room. He worried that he might not get any sleep that night because of all the new thoughts swirling through his mind. It felt wonderful, however, to be home and back in his comfortable old bed. As he pulled up his covers, relaxation took over. He fell into a deep, restful sleep and didn’t stir until well after dawn.
DE EINDE (THE END)
Glossary
Phrase
Definition
Aanhooren
Listen
Achterhaalt
Old-fashioned
Aether
Ether, the basic substance of empty
space (which isn't really empty)
Afzetterr
Cheater
Alles komt op zin teed
All things come with time
Alles zit goot
All is good
Als de moyren oren habben, de fensters zingen sopraanen
If the walls have ears, the windows sing soprano
Appelmoos
Applesauce
Belachalik
Ridiculous
Begekkin
Crazy
Behoorlink
Properly
Bespaaren ons
Save us
Beverkenfort
Castle or Fort of Works, Working Fort
Beverkenhaas
Working house or house of works
Beverkenverlt
World of works or tinker world
Booskroyt
Gunpowder
Braaf
Brave
B'verlt
Short for Beverkenverlt
De
The (het also means the but is not commonly used in Beverkenverltish Dutch)
De Achteroot
Maalstrom
The Backwards Vortex
De Groes Steem
Maester
The Great Steam Master
De Groes Zee
The Great Sea
De Hoeg Bloodzoyger
The High Leech, title of the head of the Rasmussen family or Protectorate (doctors were called leeches long ago)
De kat zonder
Klawen
The cat without claws
De is loyk je te ontmooten
It's nice to meet you
De Kasteel Leedink
The Castle Line
De molen gaat neet om met wind dee voorbe is
The windmill doesn't worry about the breeze that's gone by
De pekoerde
The pecking order
De Tandweel
Slagvelt
The Cobwheel Battleground
Denk
Think
Dis stinkan
This stinks
Donec ignis potens et altum vaporem
(Latin) Keep your fire stoked and your steam high
Doo voerszichtik
Take care
Draadjesvlees
a browned beef pie
Ect neet
No way
Eenvoodink
Obviously
Ene beetya
A bit
Falen
Fail
Flink kint
Smart kid
Foyr
Fire
Gaaf
Cool, as in great, awesome, or wow (the
expression)
Ganoof
Enough
Gebroyk de
voormaaker
Use the sledgehammer
Gedoemd
Doomed
Gedult
Patience
Genau
Exactly
Gestoorven
Died
Glokkenspeel
Toy clocks
Golf
Surge or wave
Goot
Good
Groes Vevardinker
Great Maker (a reference to their Creator or God)
Groes Weel
Great Wheel
Groesmoyder
Grandmother
Groesvader
Grandfather
Haar
Hair
Haas
House (Hoos is also used for house in some areas of Beverkenverlt)
Haasbezook
House call
haaskooler
house cooler
Haast
Make haste
Heersenen
Brains
Hemel noyn
Heavens no
Hemel snoor
Sky Line, a super fast chairlift-like mode of public transportation
Hemel steen
Sky stone or meteorite
Hoeg
High
Hoo gaas oo
verkamer op de
Dutch
How goes your studies in Dutch
Hoot
Hat
Hoy
Hey, wow, or aha
Hoyzaa
Hooray
Hulloo
Hello
Ick kan Dutch
spreken
I speak Dutch
Ik ben de Alfonz
I’m Alfonz
Ik ben in de
baadkoop
I’m in the bathtub
Incendium
A rare Beverkenverltish element that acts like solid lava and can be used to power small boilers
Jaaren
Years
Kaffee
Coffee
Kalmte
Silence
Kaspraak
Cheese and potato casserole
Kasteel
Castle or Fort of Works, Working Fort
Keek
look
Klinkers
Ash clumps from burning coal; slang for trouble makers
Kint
Kid
Kinter
Kids or children
klompen
Wooden clog shoes
Kooken
Kitchen
Koonen-Kroogen
Royal-Crowned
Kopf
Head
Kwellgeest
Small humanoid, imp-like creatures native to Beverkenverlt; extremely
aggressive
Lafaard
Coward
&nb
sp; Leef
Dear
Lekker shlaapees
Sweet sleeps
Locomobile
Steam car (from English, not Dutch)
Loottel
Little
Loygenaar
Liar
Maanden
Months
Minuten
Minutes
Miracooleus
Miraculous
Mit de Steemjammer
kinter
With the Steemjammer kids
Moderacium
A rare Beverkenverltish element that
cools Incendium when in contact with it
Moyder
Mother
Moyna zweenking wel
My turn now
Moyne
my
Nachtdoyvel
Nightmare (literally a “night devil”)
Neef
Cousin
Neh
Eh (like ending a sentence in “right?” –
seeking confirmation)
Noftalekt Juice
A brand name for a Rasmussen made remedy
that cures most poisoning
Noo
Slang for a pneumatically sent message
Noyn
No
Noyrhine
New Rhine (river) – a river near New Amsterdam named after the Rhine, even though the Rhine doesn’t go through
Amsterdam.
Oevergave
Surrender or I surrender
Onkel
Uncle
ontdaan
Upset
Oo
You
Oo bent goot waar de rekent
You’re good where it matters
Oo kant de neet missen
You can’t miss it
Oprecht vloyit de oude steem in oo aders
Truly the Old Steem flows in your veins
Ost Frisia
East Frisia
Oudtante
Great Aunt or Old Aunt
Oyteraan
Of course
Oytsel het de deef de teed
Procrastination is the thief of time
Perkaz
Peace
Perplexiteenten
perplexities
Pofferjee
A cross between a donut and a pancake, dusted with powdered sugar or eaten with syrup
Politweezen
Police
Puur ontzagwekkent
Pure awesome
Rasmussenfort
How the Rasmussens renamed Beverkenfort after conquering it
Raz
Short for Rasmussen or Rasmussens
Rootkoel
Red Cabbage
Schaaren
Snippers
Seconden
Seconds
Shadovecht
Shadow warrior. English speakers use Shadovecht for singular and plural.
Many Dutch speakers use Shadovechten for plural.
Shadoverks
Shadow Works, the main Rasmussen base where Shadovecht are made
Shlaapees
Sleepies, diminuative of sleep
Shoonmaaken
Cleansed, cured
Skirlberry
Scottish name for a Beverkenverltish berry with strange flavors and properties. Used in groat klonks.
Sleeb
A slur used to insult someone based on their lack of status or not fitting in; slang
Slemp
A hot sweet spiced beverage kind of like hot chocolate
Snert
Split pea soup
Snookendapp
A bitter Beverkenverltish fruit
Stamppot mit rookwurst
Mashed vegetables with smoked sausage
Steeler spelunk
Den of thieves
Steem
Steam (can refer to gaseous water or a special quality valued by the Steemjammer family)
Steemball
Steam Ball, a game played with armored steemtraps that fight over a one ton bronze ball in a large field
steemball
The one ton bronze ball is also called a steemball, but is not capitalized.
Steemgun
Cannon powered by steam; can also refer to a large rifle powered by steam
Steemlift
A steam-powered elevator
Steemspeel
Steam toy
Steemsuit
Steam powered personal armor. Steam comes from a hose to a boiler or an Incendium-powered backpack boiler.
Steemtraps
Armored fighting cars or vehicles used in battle and in the game Steemball
Steemvaapens
Steam weapons (cannons or catapults powered by steam; gunpowder is unreliable in Beverkenverlt)
Steemwagon
Steam truck or steam powered truck
Sterk
Strong
Stil
Hush
Stokee
Club-like compressed-air weapon
Stroont
An obscene word best not translated
Tante
Aunt
Tegen alle hoep, oo keert terung
Against all hope, you return
Teggenminkel
Remedy
Ter naar de vlees
In the flesh
Thoos
Home
Torenspitz
Spire
Tracium
A rare Beverkenverltish element that allows for inter-dimensional travel
Uuren
Hours
Vaanderloos
Wanderlust, a condition where a person must constantly be on the move or feel trapped
Vader
Father
Vanoyt oo lippenstift voor de Groes Vevardinker ooren
From your lips to the Great Maker’s ears
Vecht
Warrior or fighter
Verbeter
Correct
Verdoor
Oh no, gosh, darn (a basic exclamatory)
Verhoor ons toonen hen
Let’s show them
Verltgaat
World hole
Verraader
Traitor
Verschreking
Abominations, monsters
Verschrikoolink
Awful, terrible
Vershneelen
Hurry
Vershpletter doot
Smash it
Vertroowen
Trust
Vervlookte grappenmaakers
Cursed pranksters
Vetganen
Penguins
Vleegbril
Goggles
Volkstaam
Clan or greater family
Voo
Who
Voor zeeker
For sure
Voormaaker
Sledgehammer
Vorden optgezet
Get stuffed
Waakzaam
Alert, watch out, hey
Wachten
Wait
Wafel
Waffle
Wankenzink
Insane
Wat gescheed
What happened
Watergoyzen
Refers to naval fighters and a battle early in the Eighty Years War on Old Earth
Weel
Wheel
Winst
Victory
Woedwassen
A name for a river
Ya
Yes
Ya ent noyn
Yes and no
Yongeman
Young man
Zeedaar
There
Zeega
Triumph
Zeeker
Certain or sure
Zeet welk oo
Is that you
Zen
vertroowen
Have faith
Zinkberry
A tasty berry native to Beverkenverlt
Zo
&n
bsp; So
Zo voornam ent voonderbar zit Beverkenfort
So grand and wonderful is Beverkenfort
Zonderlink
Freaky, weird
Zoolk steem
Such steam (a high compliment meaning someone had "such steam" to do something amazing)
Zwakzenink
Imbecile