Re: Saalangal stuff

Jorg writes:

>It seems that trigger systems are a sort of "cross-conworld areal
>feature"
>of the western Pacific as ISTR that Saalangal is spoken on a (fictional)
>group of islands that lie somewhere near the Philippines and where
>Kristian's Boreanesia would be.
The Saalangal's small archipelago is situated around the area of where
Scarborough Reef is in the South China Sea (in our world...there it doesnt
exist). The island is old, and surrounded by a coral reef (it is on its
way to becomiong an atoll). So, the areal influence is there, but the
language is it's own beast ;).
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>And I guess that they use the agent trigger a lot in courts of law
>when referring to the actions of the defendant.
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Yes, it has its use there, and children often use it when shifting the
blame ;).