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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/