'(·)@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
'(·)@allgebrah·May 26, 2016Replying to @allgebrahAn influential Latin dictionary once published a revised edition and broke 30% of spells. This led to wizards' adoption of versioned Latin.3115221
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
'(·)@allgebrahReplying to @SeadogDriftwoodhmm latin is relatively rare in that everything goes in pronunciation I suppose it's happy to be spoken at all7:19 PM · Jun 2, 2016·Twitter Web Client16 Likes