Talk:The Speech (fiction)

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Advised?

"...wizards are advised not to curse or lie in the Speech."

Are they advised not to, or is it impossible? I thought that it was impossible to lie in the Speech.

--Dani 01:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC it is effectively impossible to lie in the Speech simply because what you say becomes true…hence the strenuous discouragement. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Throughout?

"The Speech is an idealized language found throughout modern fantasy/science fiction." [my emphasis]

Without specific references to other terms for a Universal or Common Tongue, throughout is an overreach; the article mentions only three authors who have used specifically a language referred to as the Speech in the creation of their worlds.

The text could be expanded to include references to the Common Tongue in fantasy and science fiction, and the usefulness of the assumption. Throughout would then be an appropriate description as it falls into the same category as Faster Than Light (FTL) or warp drives which are necessary to get from place to place in space-oriented SF. As such, it could also be a part of an article about the common assumptions that are often made in the genres of fantasy and science fiction:

Old Earth was used up and discarded.
Humans have spread across the galaxy.
Old Earth exists somewhere but its location is lost in the depths of time.
Magic exists, as do magical beings.
There are portals from our reality to other worlds if we only know where to look.
And so on.

—AlexP | (Talk) 03:08, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]