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. :-)