Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan

> Kristian Jensen wrote:
>  Lets call all these telepathemes. One might
> > even imagine that Betazoids who haven't reached puberty speak what
> > would be considered baby language in that the language would be
> > incomplete without these telepathemes. Thus, all human languages
> > would be baby languages to these Betazoids in that they completely
> > lack telepathemes.
>
Nik Taylor wrote:

> That is, there might be two or three levels to
> the telepathy, one level would contain morphemes identical to the spoken
> language's, except that homophones are, perhaps, distinguished.  The
> second level might contain extra information about the morphemes, and
> the third level might contain gramatical info, disambiguating structural
> ambiguity, such as the "old men and women" example, that level would
> distinguish between "(old men) and women" and "old (men and women)".
diana thinks (loudly) her own hmmmm--what if one mode of telepathic
language is visual?  after all, we're all adept at dreaming--and there's a
long tradition of messaging via dream-language.  what if that were also
more abstracted--as the alphabet is...

dream on...