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The better the language, the more difficult to learn.

'Tisn't always so. Complexity, IMO, isn't always what makes a language great.

How often do such systems arise? And do they often consist of different numbers of radicals(like two or four)? Are the Semitic languages the only ones which do this?

Do they need to learn it in primary school like we do?

You learn it in primary school? Wow, that's a good idea. We never did. I wish we would have had to learn to swim(I don't know how).

Somone without nipples would look very... incomplete to me. The same with eyebrows and fingernails, or the absence thereof. Ghost :) In the original Planet of the Apes movie, they didn't have eyebrows on any of the apes, except the one Taylor falls in love with. She had eyebrows, to make her more a...

What's a shrubber?

It'd still be cool though. And something to brag about.

Ota wrote:

utter cuteness

NO! utter coolness!!

I'm pretty sure you misunderstood me. He(zomp) said that he didn't care for 'magical' settings in conworlds if they are treated as a form of science, and that he thought it was much more interesting if it is a more spiritual endeavor than something you can just learn and DO. I said that the first th...

It'd take a LONG time to do, though of course people could just post in an Almean language in the first place...

To me, magic should be something numinous-- spiritual rather than scientific. I've essentially borrowed my solution from Ariosto: magic is actually requests made of sentient supernatural powers... superior beings that have their own agenda. They may indulge their pets a bit, but there is a price to...