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

--- "Mark P. Line" <mark@...> wrote:
> 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
>
My idea was that the language could _talk about_
sequential order as a concept, but not actualy _use_
sequential ordering as part of the language.

These beings could visit a dimension where time
existed, but could also communicate among themselves
in their native non-tmeporal realm.  With nine
dimensions to choose from "sentences" could be
separated along some other dimension than time, which
might serve as an analog to sequential order.

It's hard to talk about trans-temporal beings without
letting human words like "before" and "after" creep
in, which seem to imply temporal ordering.  But I
suppose, for the sake of human discussion, we scould
just pretend that certain clusters were communicated
"before" others, rather than simultaneous but "off to
one side in the 6th dimension" which might be more
correct.

--gary

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