Re: Nostratic (was Re: Etymology of English 'black'), Tech, and Albic

From: "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@...>

> I actually modelled the Techs a lot after the Rroma. They were scattered
by
> the Great Floods, the most catastrophic being the Black Sea around 7500
BCE,
> and a Tower of Babel-type event in Mesopotamia a few millennia later. Tiny
> communities of the Caucasian Techs migrated as far as Sri Lanka and
> Scotland, yet somehow preserved their language so well that thousands of
> years later their dialects of the language kept a high level of mutual
> intelligibility with those in Armenia, Turkey and Iran. (But Techs have
some
> pretty impressive psychic/magical abilities, so that's not as hard as it
> sounds.)
Another example of the political incorrectness (despite the very liberal
worldview) of my FourHorse project... the so-called 'Gypsies', including
non-Roma who adopt the lifestyle out of romanticism, are stereotyped as
being psychics and fortune-tellers, but the Techs actually are a race with
psychic abilities, and that gets them into trouble with humans a lot. Which
makes me wonder if they need verbal communication at all; if they had enough
mental power, they could insert thoughts directly into people's minds
without having to speak. But in order to be less conspicuous, they speak a
verbal language anyway, but they use facial and hand gestures not to replace
speech, but to enhance it.

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