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

From:J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 6:59
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