Star Trek conlangs with telepathemes!

>Depending on how fast these telepathic messages are transfered, I
>was thinking: what about having _some_ "morphemes" or "phonemes"
>transfered telepathically. If the transfer is instantaneous, then
>you can have a series of telepathic elements supplementing the
>phonology. This will probably have to operate on a suprasegmental
>level though. If the transfer is a bit slower, then you can have
>some grammatical elements transfered telepathically. Or maybe a
>combination of the two. Lets call all these telepathemes. One might
>even imagine that Betazoids who haven't reached puberty speak what
>would be considered baby language in that the language would be
>incomplete without these telepathemes. Thus, all human languages
>would be baby languages to these Betazoids in that they completely
>lack telepathemes.
I really like your term of telepathemes; perhaps Betazoid ideas would be
expressable on many other levels; not only would they speak verbally, but
for extra expression perhaps they share telepathemes in conjunction with
phonemes! Good idea, thanks Kristian :)

>Regards,
>-Kristian- 8-)
>
>
In conclusion,
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