Daniel:
Language is a complex system of vocabulary, grammar, and rules of use. All
of these things change. German has taken on hundreds of English words since
the war but this has had no effect on the grammar. Germans today have no
difficulty understanding pre-war German. Actually REPLACING words usually
occurs over long periods of time, and is only PART of a change in language.
Peter or Bob?:
> Nobody today speaks EWF-era Old Pavic nor are there any circumstances
> in which one concievably encounters a living speaker of EWF Old Pavic.
Daniel: There are lots of remnants left, most probably spirits, but there are long-lived beings from those times. Aside from Pavis himself there are beings such as Fang Forosh and the vampire from the old Sun Dome who know languages from that time.
>Waha Knots are a coded communication separate from the Praxian language.
>I think that it was introduced in 'Borderlands'. There is also a
>reference in the Prax Book of Drastic Resolutions.
Daniel: Praxian Knot Writing was introduced in Snake Pipe Hollow.
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #133
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