02-13-2016, 06:16 PM | #31 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Linguistics
You can swap the 2 dimensional arrangement around a lot (I rather like the continuous spiral wrapped around a cylinder with the d and f shells as loops out from it myself) but really that's superficial. The *linear* order is fixed. Seriously if you have something with tens but not hundred of entries with associated numbers, and there's some way to read it so one set of the numbers starts with values that round to 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19, 20 it's pretty much clinched already. There might be other things that could generate that sequence, but how often are they likely to be written down? If the numbers match to more decimal places and/or the next 80-some entries are that close too, it's not chance.
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I can tell Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Faroese, and Finnish apart. I recognize German, French, Spanish, Italian, English. I have most of the Slavic languages in some sort of Slavic languages category in my head, that is I can tell you they're Slavic languages not not which one. Ditto for Arabic. I think I can recognize Japanese. Is this Linguistics, or some weird Perk? |
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02-13-2016, 09:45 PM | #33 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Linguistics
In Omnilingual by Piper they had a lot more then the periodic table, although that was a key starting point. They did get the number system from that. They then were able to use chemical journals to get things like dates and descriptions of reactions. A large library of a technological civilization has a built in bilingual.
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02-13-2016, 09:50 PM | #34 |
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Linguistics is a important skill in my current Stargate campaign. To keep it from being too important most planets there are at least some people that speak the goa'uld language that is based on ancient Egyptian. I also gave the linguist a Power Up that since they have aspected Serendipity and language Talent they can spend points to already know any Earth language. Add high Linguistics and they can communicate with Earth descended cultures on most planets.
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I have no idea how that happened.
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02-13-2016, 10:46 PM | #38 |
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I don't believe it would work. You have a picture of a cat next to the word "cat," let's say. But there are multiple other words following "cat." My Webster's says "a carnivorous mammal long domesticated as a pet and for catching rats and mice." So then you look up "a." There's no picture, and the definition is going to be abstract. You look up "carnivorous" . . . It gets impossibly complex. Even if the vocabulary is much simpler, suited to children, figuring out the function words, and what relationship they established between the content words, and how the content words relate to each other, is going to be baffling.
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(Not johndallman here)- Perhaps, but there are a number of researchers who consider it to be a natural language.
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