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Re: Archaen: A Bit of Magical Whimsy

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, March 5, 1999, 9:24
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! Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepage/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html