A bit weird question but I guess it’s valid.
First a few points:
All Qin, absolutely all, have Mindshare 1, so they have the old Babel Effect, that allow them to communicate without a common language.
Qin, as far as I understand don’t need speak per se, they use Telepathy for every communication they need. I would say they don’t even are capable of speaking without the bio suit, as a matter of biological parts to do so.
They have a “written language” or at least a way to digitalize their communication and transfer it by laser to other planets (probably sending a telepathic message to the bio computer that translate it into a laser that is received and converted into a telepathic message to the receiver).
Than the question:
Besides the telepathically language, does Qin have a proper language? One that don’t use ideas, senses and emotions in raw state, but translated to a simpler communication method (tentacle gestures, noises, things like that).
Edit: A few more details that makes me think they don’t have a language.
They have names that are essentially concepts (colors, deeds our expectations and microbes), they have the 3 castes that are generic concepts of expecializarion (physical, mental and social) and have their houses, that use Chinese numeral (related to I-Ching, so in fact they are chasing the concept behind the numeral). It sounds like their entire names are created around concepts and not words.
First a few points:
All Qin, absolutely all, have Mindshare 1, so they have the old Babel Effect, that allow them to communicate without a common language.
Qin, as far as I understand don’t need speak per se, they use Telepathy for every communication they need. I would say they don’t even are capable of speaking without the bio suit, as a matter of biological parts to do so.
They have a “written language” or at least a way to digitalize their communication and transfer it by laser to other planets (probably sending a telepathic message to the bio computer that translate it into a laser that is received and converted into a telepathic message to the receiver).
Than the question:
Besides the telepathically language, does Qin have a proper language? One that don’t use ideas, senses and emotions in raw state, but translated to a simpler communication method (tentacle gestures, noises, things like that).
Edit: A few more details that makes me think they don’t have a language.
They have names that are essentially concepts (colors, deeds our expectations and microbes), they have the 3 castes that are generic concepts of expecializarion (physical, mental and social) and have their houses, that use Chinese numeral (related to I-Ching, so in fact they are chasing the concept behind the numeral). It sounds like their entire names are created around concepts and not words.
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