Dragaera

Language drift and lifespan

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Wed Sep 4 22:32:12 PDT 2002

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, magical truthsaying bastard roney! wrote:

>Mark A Mandel writes:
>  That lexical (vocabulary) process has been vastly accelerated by mass
>  media, which do not exist in the Empire except for the printing press,
>
>I dunno... i can easily see the rise of Orb-based psionic chat rooms.
>

Or sorcerous broadcasting (Orbcasting?) to some medium that can take a
temporary psiprint.  There you go: television.

Hmm.  What House would Oprah belong to?  Probably Issola.  Jerry
Springer would probably be a Yendi ("Let's disclose these peoples most
embarrasing secrets and watch them fight!"), and of course, some
Jhereg would probably have the notion of creating a porn channel.

The Empire would no doubt collapse shortly thereafter.  :-)