Re: Someone looking for numbers

Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:

> >Could be worse. A couple years ago, some guy from Poland contacted
> >me by email asking me to write him a "Hymn to Fire" in Degaspregos.
> >It turned out he was involved in some sort of cult, and was using
> >my language in his ceremonies, and mentions me and my conlang by
> >name on his website. It's all in Polish, so I can't read it, but my
> >name and the conlang's name are clear enough.
>
> So, why do you suppose he picked your conlang, Degaspregos?
This much is clear:  Degaspregos was an a posteriori language
based on reconstructed roots of Proto-Indo-European, and the
many Indo-Europeans were animists of some sort.

> I, personally, write rituals in English, Welsh, Latin, ancient Greek &
> Egyptian, but I can't reason why I'd pick someone else's conlang for such.
Me neither, other than the normal characteristic of mystery
religions:  obscurantist rituals make the lay people feel
it's "deep" in some way.

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