From: Julian Lord (julian.lord@hol.fr)
Date: Thu 02 Jul 1998 - 01:00:37 EEST
Peter Metcalfe:
> Grandfather Mortal's lifetime is what most gloranthans consider to
> be the good old days. But even in those days, people spoke different
> incomprehensible languages.
Well, family reunions must have been quite something in good old Pappy
Mortal's homestead.
> where all spoke Mantongue IMO.
Your contention goes against the entire corpus of world mythology
Seshnegi is as close to Brithini as Old French is to Medieval Latin,
regarding the first language, including current linguistic theory, which
also says that humanity, having originated in a single place, originally
had only one language. Plus, Greg has sed, which is enough for me.
yes.
> But I
Greg sed different.
> I strongly doubt that spiritspeech exists and think that most spirits
> would doubt your contention that Tradetalk is derived from Seshnegi.
> I think it more like a teletubbled pidgen version of Stormspeech.
> would speak the language they spoke when alive if they can speak at
> all.
Oh, come on Peter! Spiritspeech is mentioned by several *quite*
authoritative sources, including some OOP ones ....
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