Post by The Kortl Rheus on Nov 28, 2014 22:28:48 GMT
Dearest Sayid,
When we last spoke, I found it quite hard to put into words the measure by which the Kortl and the various blended genetic telepaths use telepathy as a form of emphasis which doesn't over-write the spoken idea, as I had said, but rather is blended together to form a complete meaning. This is why sometimes it is frustrating for telepaths to communicate only using spoken or gestured language. Imagine what it would be like to be forced to convey emotions through words using a primitive simulated computer processed voice. This is sometimes the frustration we feel, but it goes farther. There is contextual language that is omitted that can be critically important, but even now is often forgotten.
Let me explain. For the genetically pure Kortl, the speaker, in the political role, most purely reflected the idea behind the definition of their function: to speak. Sometimes they speak for themselves, sometimes for others, sometimes for good and sometimes for evil. But they are always speaking. This is probably why we speakers are no fun at dinner parties. Too long-winded. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that hidden within many of the spoken Kortl language are ideas that Kortl sometimes actively forget about, ideas which are only transmitted telepathically. It's sort of like when we use dead metaphors, as the the pure human descendant Orwell often lamented, there are sayings we use which hold a meaning, but the context of that is mostly lost. What does "kick the bucket" even mean? We know it means someone is about to die, but why? We've lost that connection. We ignore it.
So, when I tell you, Sayid, that the word speaker itself is one of these dead telepathic metaphors, with so much attached meaning that the genetically native Kortl ignored, it is no small thing. We now have started to translate the hidden context into spoken language, but it isn't really catching on. We're so mired in standard name-roles that were I to tell you I am a geist-speaker, you might ask if I study haunted houses, rather than social sciences.
Anyway, I didn't mean to be insulting when I suggested that you wouldn't understand, it's just that we're often too lazy to properly translate the nuances of telepathic language.
Take the Whitemourne for instance. It took quite some time for the other species to take notice of the impending changes going on in Dorvik when the whitemourne began to appear. It was hard to describe, and even more embarrassing that such a thing could exist, a telepath so strong that he could simply bind the will of others into his own.
Keep in mind that I'm using gender here loosely, at the time no Kortl had a gender, although since then, as you well know, most have adopted one or the other - either genetically or socially.
So, anyway, the Whitemourne came as a real shock when the Kortl were simply unwilling to communicate this giant threat he posed. I mean, even by 2403.7 he has over three million kortl enslaved in his single enormous sept. When they went together to Dorvik and took over the entire planet, even then, the Kortl speakers, the true political ones, remained mostly silent about the issue. This wasn't that they didn't talk about it, or that there were not very obvious clues, but they simply used the term speaker, and hid the context of what kind of speaker he was, even now we use the term Whitemourne-speaker because that was the name of what we think was the sept name of the first Whitemourne. They are so rare, less than one every millennium, that every one of them takes the name Whitemourne. In recorded history, this would be the fifth, although there is some speculation that others have existed but kept their power under control.
What a terrible time that was.
I'll be arranging transwarp from Borr next week, perhaps you can pry more questions for me then, and I'll try to be less of a prig about it all. Can you pick up some of that Amarrian wine for the dinner?
Free Planets!
~ Geistspeaker Lopheam.
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When we last spoke, I found it quite hard to put into words the measure by which the Kortl and the various blended genetic telepaths use telepathy as a form of emphasis which doesn't over-write the spoken idea, as I had said, but rather is blended together to form a complete meaning. This is why sometimes it is frustrating for telepaths to communicate only using spoken or gestured language. Imagine what it would be like to be forced to convey emotions through words using a primitive simulated computer processed voice. This is sometimes the frustration we feel, but it goes farther. There is contextual language that is omitted that can be critically important, but even now is often forgotten.
Let me explain. For the genetically pure Kortl, the speaker, in the political role, most purely reflected the idea behind the definition of their function: to speak. Sometimes they speak for themselves, sometimes for others, sometimes for good and sometimes for evil. But they are always speaking. This is probably why we speakers are no fun at dinner parties. Too long-winded. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that hidden within many of the spoken Kortl language are ideas that Kortl sometimes actively forget about, ideas which are only transmitted telepathically. It's sort of like when we use dead metaphors, as the the pure human descendant Orwell often lamented, there are sayings we use which hold a meaning, but the context of that is mostly lost. What does "kick the bucket" even mean? We know it means someone is about to die, but why? We've lost that connection. We ignore it.
So, when I tell you, Sayid, that the word speaker itself is one of these dead telepathic metaphors, with so much attached meaning that the genetically native Kortl ignored, it is no small thing. We now have started to translate the hidden context into spoken language, but it isn't really catching on. We're so mired in standard name-roles that were I to tell you I am a geist-speaker, you might ask if I study haunted houses, rather than social sciences.
Anyway, I didn't mean to be insulting when I suggested that you wouldn't understand, it's just that we're often too lazy to properly translate the nuances of telepathic language.
Take the Whitemourne for instance. It took quite some time for the other species to take notice of the impending changes going on in Dorvik when the whitemourne began to appear. It was hard to describe, and even more embarrassing that such a thing could exist, a telepath so strong that he could simply bind the will of others into his own.
Keep in mind that I'm using gender here loosely, at the time no Kortl had a gender, although since then, as you well know, most have adopted one or the other - either genetically or socially.
So, anyway, the Whitemourne came as a real shock when the Kortl were simply unwilling to communicate this giant threat he posed. I mean, even by 2403.7 he has over three million kortl enslaved in his single enormous sept. When they went together to Dorvik and took over the entire planet, even then, the Kortl speakers, the true political ones, remained mostly silent about the issue. This wasn't that they didn't talk about it, or that there were not very obvious clues, but they simply used the term speaker, and hid the context of what kind of speaker he was, even now we use the term Whitemourne-speaker because that was the name of what we think was the sept name of the first Whitemourne. They are so rare, less than one every millennium, that every one of them takes the name Whitemourne. In recorded history, this would be the fifth, although there is some speculation that others have existed but kept their power under control.
What a terrible time that was.
I'll be arranging transwarp from Borr next week, perhaps you can pry more questions for me then, and I'll try to be less of a prig about it all. Can you pick up some of that Amarrian wine for the dinner?
Free Planets!
~ Geistspeaker Lopheam.
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