What language...

[ONeill]

What language did Robert Jordan use for the old tounge?? as most wouldn't make up a new language but use one from ancient cultures from earth>

[Luckers]

RJ has made his own language, complete with gramatical and linguistical inconsistancies that im told are commonly found in living languages (at first i thought them mistakes, but my friend who has a PhD in linguistics insists this is not the case--hero worship? Maybe, but im not knowledgeable enough to argue that).

[RobertAlexWillis]

Wellllll ........

 

Linguistically you don't really have to follow any rules if you are making up a language. English provides ample evidence that to function as a language, following rules is quite unnecessary.

 

But language forms vary widely, even within real languages that we know. For example, in Tagalog, the verb "to be" does not exist. Existence is implied in word order and conjugation.

[Luckers]

Which is why i do not know enough to argue it. I think you would like my friend Soni, Robert.

[RobertAlexWillis]

:D Not until I finish my PhD ... (which isn't going to be in liguistics). I'm way too arrogant to meet him on anything but at least equal ground ... 8)