Re: Archaen: A Bit of Magical Whimsy

At 14:22 04/03/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I love it, particularly "evocative" and "invocative" cases, and the like.
>
>What about verbs?  You'd have to have subjunctive moods denoting events
>that will not happen unless someone magickally influences them to.  An
>imperative strictly for spirits.  Perhaps a separate future tense for
>actions divined to happen.  i.e. "I will go to the ball." versus "I (have
>seen in my crystal ball that I) will go to the ball."  Call it, maybe,
>the prophetic future?
>
>--Patrick
>
>
        I've already seen such a kind of future somewhere, in the description of a
conlang on the web, but I don't remember its name. Damn! I read this page
just three days ago!


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