[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 13:17 on 15/02/98
about "languages and Galaxies":
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>But Frank Herbert based the Fremen religion in Dune on Islam and their
>language on Arabic while the Atreides clan used some old African
language
>(Chakobsa I think) as their battle language.
Indeed. The latter precisely _because_ it was unused and secret.
Herbert is writing about secret societies, the Fremen, the Tleilaxu
(also Sunni (de)based) the Gesserit - whose provenance is not
obvious.
>I think it all depends on when the big push outwards happens----if in
the
>near future it will be English but in centuries to come, who knows?
>Chinese, Japanese or Arabic would be possibilities.
Awaiting.
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