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Originally posted by Faceman:
Or take Sanskrit (ancient Indian), they use words which are half a line long to make up whole sentences.
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I'm no authority on Sanskrit, but to me that sounds like putting spaces between ideas simply hadn't come into popular usage yet. It can't really be called a "word" unless it is a general part of a sentence (e.g. the subject
or the predicate, but not both), and is used more than once.
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"to be a council member" or "to desert to the Medes"
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Now that scares me. Imagine having to memorize all the conjugations for those!
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Vanij e.g. (you meet him in the Drow city IIRC) is Sanskrit for "merchant".
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If we're thinking of the same person, it's spelled "Visaj"....but that is pretty much what he does. Well spotted!