Re: 4D conlang [Was: Re: I'm back!]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:13:15 -0700, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
wrote:

>But besides spatial words, I'm struggling with this concept of either
>having no knots in my 4D con-world, or having knots that can only be
>tied by twisting 2D sheets (because knotted 1D strings in 4D are
>identical to the unknotted string, so you can't tie a knot with a 1D
>string without it coming apart trivially in 4D). So the conlang would
>either have NO words for tie, knot, etc., or it would need a new set
>of words for whatever bizarre operations one would need to perform to
>get 2D sheets to "knot" in 4D. (I'm not even sure this is possible to
>begin with.)
What struggles me most is how many dimensions could language itself have in
environments of higher dimensions. Spoken language is essencially two-
dimensional: time and sound (or syntagmatics and paradigmatics). If there
were an additional dimension, then language could have an additional
dimension, too. I couldn't imagine it, though.

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust