Re: Non-verbal writing.
From: | Simon Clarkstone <simon.clarkstone@...> |
Date: | Monday, February 26, 2007, 22:55 |
On 12/5/06, Kate <snapping.dragon@...> wrote:
> What about non-physical, non-verbal communication, such as psychic
> communication? I'm in the first stage of sketching out a language with
> psychic (sort of) speakers, and I'm curious about how other conlangers
> might have dealt with it.
Well, my Kigdatsi [1] have radio-based communication (which makes them
appear telepathic to humans who don't know this) and I am planning to
design it in terms of abstract graphs without initially worrying about
how they are encoded as radio.
How can your people be "psychic (sort of)"?
Footnote:
[1] I have dumped a load of info here in an uncoordinated manner; grep
for "simon.clarkstone" on the pages if necessary:
http://users.durge.org/~sc/Kigdatsi/