| From: | "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Sperethiel |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:12:46 -0800 |
this one, this Tir (anti)apologetics is just _immense_. At least the
flamewars on MagickNet are accompanied by formulas and theorems. *sheesh*
By the way: I just did a bit of demographics research, all strictly public
domain and available to people like me without lots of network aug, and it
seems that Urbanus has considerably undervalued the number of people claiming
"some knowledge" of Sperethiel. Those interested can check out
<REFERENCE>,
but the gist is that corporate surveys conducted in and out of the two Tirs
showed that a "considerable fraction of those surveyed demonstrated at or
above subsistence proficiency in Sperethiel..." Not bad, for a language
supposed to be sooo hard to pick up. At this rate, I'd say it's probably
harder to learn the Cirth.
"Ac'r'thiol'qo pa'vizh os hyieil'tzakh ad'", wouldn't you agree? It's more a
question of what "sufficiently advanced" means...
["Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", for
those who haven't had or taken the opportunity to learn Sperethiel]
Oh, and Fries, von Neugenstorn, Semplys, and Chou just categorically disproved
the popular myth that the elven ear structure makes them better suited to
speaking Sperethiel than other metahumans. The full paper is available at
<REFERENCE>.
Myself, I don't see much chance of either Easy or Urbanus revising the other's
opinion on the subject. For my purposes, the closed nature of many of
Tir Tairngire's research and industrial magical discussion forums, the tight
immigration and internal travel restrictions, and the impressive import
tarrifs make it unlikely that I can have many good-faith dealings with the
place... ]<<<<<
-- Jason Tylor <12:50:19 / 12-16-57>
