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Re: NON-spoken, NON-written, NON-human conlang.

From:Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 21:44
Gary Shannon said:
> [snip] > > First premise: Being trans-temporal their telepathic > language lacks anything that we might call sequential > order.
> [snip]
> For example, suppose we used the proper name "DNC:WLV" > (pretend it means "DancesWith:Wolves"), before we can > "talk" about this person we would exchange a cluster > that looked like [DNC:WLV CH:WLV] and meant, roughly, > [DanceWith:Wolves; CallHim:Wolves].
So does this mean there really is something we might call sequential order in the language, just not at the level you've equated with word order? -- Mark

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