Re: Betreft: Re: "Conlanging" in Greek (Re: "conlanger" en Franais?)

>From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
> >Glossolalia is speaking in tongues -- a religious (usually) phenomonon in
> >which a person begins to babble nonsense syllables in a state of light
> >self hypnosis.
>
>Yeah, that's what we do! We just write it all down
>and make up grammars and histories and peoples to
>go with. ;^)
Spontaneous conlanging, in other words.  (For some reason, it always has
only one vowel, "a", and the consonants "sh", "r", "m"...)

Glossolalia, by the way, was one of the ways that Jesus said (St. Mark ch.
16) his Church would be proven.  This is *not* the incoherent babbling many
pretend "charismatics" blubber.  This is the miraculous speaking of another
language, which occured in Acts ch. 2, where the Galilean Apostles, St.
Peter and the other eleven including Matthias, Judas Iscariot's replacement,
spoke prophecies in a variety of languages, as in Arabic, Latin, Greek, Old
Nubian, pre-Christian Coptic, Persian, and what not, thanks to the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.  St. Paul speaks of "tongues of men and
angels" in his first letter to the Corinthians, and says that unknown
tongues are meant for the "unbelievers" (peoples yet unreached with the
Gospel), while prophecies, which are spoken in a language known to both
speaker and hearer, is a sign for the "believers", the baptized and blessed
members of the holy catholic Church and the communion of saints.

Now disengaging from soapbox mode.  Zzzzzzz....

Danny
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