The Ur Language

From: Greg Stafford <greg_at_glorantha.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:19:30 -0700

At 05:52 AM 8/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Benedict Adamson <badamson_at_nildram.co.uk>

>HOWEVER, I maintain that if someone in the RW has had some theory about
>anthropology or history, however discredited it is now, then there
>should exist in Glorantha some people who confirm to that theory.

I would amend that to be "might exist in Your Glorantha."

>Thus,
>we have noble savages (that's YOU, Heortlings) and structuralist
>mythology (the God Learners). By extension, there should exist in
>Glorantha a language that (perhaps mytho-magically) conforms to the
>Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think there could be no better candidate than
>New Pelorian.

Actually, in my Glorantha the language that conforms to that ought to be the long-lost ur-Vithelan.

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