It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
- Richelieu
> > Gloranthan relevance: surely Glorantha has sign
> > languages? And as
> > surely glorantha has myths for them too. Are there
> > any deaf/ sign
> > language using folk there who could write one up?
>
> My immediate thought on that is "Sword Speech", the
> language used by Humakti (especially on days when
> they're geased into silence.) I'd guess that the
> vocabulary is a bit specialist. Would it be one
> cult-wide language, useable even when two Humakti have
> no spoken language in common?
>
> Me, I know nought about linguistics, but I seem to be
> producing a lot of Humakti myths these days. So if you
> experts can give me some "facts" to go on, I'd enjoy a
> chance to dress them up and put them in a game.
Except (my interpretation of) Sword Speech is more for tactical practices - the whole "You scout thataway", "Stop - possible ambush"; "Three sentries. You kill the one on the left. You kill the one on the right, I'll take the one in the center"; "Break the door in three, two, one [smash]" . The sorts of sign language seen in military or cop movies. Great for giving orders silently, useless for "conversation".
Prax seems the natural place for "Hollywood Injun" sign language - but you have to assume that Bison, Antelope, etc. people don't speak the same language. "Go three days to Pavis and look up the Priest" might translate into "Hand-push, three bunny-hops, circle index finger in palm; two-finger point at eyes; smoke pipe" or such-like. (And only the old salt trooper knows how to interpret Praxian. "There are either three or three million bison riders...")
Pent might actually be a good place for it - long (well, for Glorantha) distances for clans or tribes to cover, the Lunars on one side, Kraloreli on the other.
RR
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