Re: Occult languages

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:53:05 -0500 Patrick Dunn
> <tb0pwd1@...> writes:
> > I know I'm not the only one here who studies the occult (shhhh, don't
> > tell
> > my department!  They won't give me my Ph.D. if I don't toe the line!
> > hehe).  How many of you who have studied the occult have tried to
> > create
> > occult languages, or use conlangs in your magic?  If you have, what
> > sort
> > of things have you looked for in the language?
> -
>
> Okay, this probably is no help whatsoever to you (although i liked the
> ideas you mentioned, and i remember someone a few months or a year ago
> creating a "magic language" based on Hebrew and Latin if i remember
> correctly... oh wait, maybe that was helpful after all :-) )
Heh.  That was me.  But it got on my nerves; too artificial.

> but anyway, the non-helpful thing i wanted to say was that
>
> my conlang "Gábwe" (Gabwe with rising accent on the A), or Goblin, was
> invented so that my character in my local Live Action Role Playing group
> could say his magical spells in it.  So whenever i'm casting a spell on
> someone, i first ask them if their character understands Goblin, and if
> they do, i read the spell in English translation.  If they don't, i read
> it in Gabwe, which gets very tiring after a while because it's all in
> creaky voice and that hurts my throat.
How does it work grammatically?


>
> Being bored in class over a few weeks i created phonetic correspondences
> between around 10 different Gabwe dialects.
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg), AKA Ur' Bahar'av, Acting Magistrate of New Byron
>  "Pwét-et Dá-tíy-Ék..."
>  (people who i see before me...)
>      ~ the beginning of my "pas" spell for making NPCs non-hostile
>
> * {r'} = /velar voiced approximant/
>

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