Re: Language and "mysticism," whatever that is.

Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:

> Oh yes. I'd often find interesting sounding syllables in the oddest
> places and then juxtapose them and turn them into names, which then
> had to mean something, so they also became words. I found myself
> staring at a Periodic Table of the Elements the other day, and the
> memory of one of those incidents came back to me. I took the chemical
> symbols Ge-As-Se which occur right next to each other and turned them
> into the name 'Geathe', which 20 years later, still exists as
> 'Kithje'. Same character, more or less, too...
I've done this too, especially when I was working on Tadheka (the successor to my
first conlang, Messyen).  I recall that the capital city of the Tadheka,
Adehinos, was derived by stringing together the pronounceable file names from a
friend's rolodex:

  A
  D-E
  H-I
  N-O
  S

Matt.