Re: Ritual languages/ Magical languages
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 6:08 |
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > The description in Dutch runs to twelve pages
> > of double-column text.
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> I thought there were only 24 words? How would that take up twelve
> pages?
>
Those are for the complications I mentioned: Every word has six forms;
each form has its own meaning. Then there's the grammar of course,
the examples, the theory of the permanent pentagrams (which I think
is a kind of poetry in Old Hyksos). Not included in the twelve pages
is the dialect of the language used by dragons in normal, everyday
conversation - which has its own set of affixes.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt