'(·)@allgebrah·May 26, 2016The reason you use dead languages for magic is that they don't move. Spells in living languages spoil within years due to semantic drift.5493877
'(·)@allgebrahReplying to @allgebrahAn influential Latin dictionary once published a revised edition and broke 30% of spells. This led to wizards' adoption of versioned Latin.11:01 AM · May 26, 2016·Twitter Web Client114 Retweets1 Quote Tweet221 Likes
Katusagios Göranssen@SeadogDriftwood·Jun 2, 2016Replying to @allgebrahThat does raise a question: do Latin[ate] spells retain vowel length, the [w] pronunciation of "v", and nasal vowels for "Vm"?12
'(·)@allgebrah·Jun 2, 2016Replying to @SeadogDriftwoodhmm latin is relatively rare in that everything goes in pronunciation I suppose it's happy to be spoken at all16
John Boer@johnboer11·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @allgebrah and @thegrugqI thought this was a programming language analogy at first.3