nostalgebraist:

And because they were omniscient and so tight-knit, they could be very adolescent and pretentious in the way they flaunted their superiority.  It wouldn’t be unusual for a God to use Ningdu Chinese, Etruscan, Ket (a moribund language spoken by just five hundred people in central Siberia), Mexican Mafia prison code, Klingon, dolphin echolocation clicks, ant pheromones, and honeybee dance steps – all in one sentence.  It’s the kind of thing where you’d be like, was that really necessary?


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