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From: "Padraic Brown" <elemtilas@...>
> --- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
>
> > She was Pamnerik of Teon, mistress of horses,
> > slayer of kings, queen of the
> > Black and Caspian Seas; death in her hands,
> > foreseeing in her eyes, mastery
> > in her sceptre, seduction and deceit on her
> > lips, justice on her throne. :)
>
> !!! Did her claws never retract!? ;)
Probably not. And she had six fingers on each paw.
> > That Hildegard invented a language known as
> > "Lingua Ignota," 1011 nouns
> > written down with their Latin and Old High
> > German translations, all of them
> > describing the things of her world
>
> Is there a complete listing of her vocabulary
> anywhere?
Yes. I reference the fairly recent (and complete) German edition in my
on-line article.
http://www.media-culture.org.au/0003/languages.html
section 7. See also the article by Jeffrey Schnapp on Hildegard.
> fas peryn omen c' yng ach h-yst yn caleor peryn ndia;
> enffoge yn omen ach h-yst yn caleor per la gouitha.
This looks new!