Was rereading Lovecraft's complete works the other night, and am astonished I'd never caught this before (and now feel inestimably stupid).
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@netspionage That's beautiful.
It's so blatantly obvious, I feel like a fool for not having seen it before. Now, almost feeling inclined to RE-re-read CoC et al in search of other such things.
@netspionage It reminds me of one time one of my adult children called from a very intense school in tears in the middle of the night. As a grown ass man. There was a lot of stress going on, I thought someone died. Nope, he was sobbing I just realized all of the beautiful language from the aliens in the Dune books is just Arabic. Really really badly crappily translated Arabic. My childhood is ruined. It was awful. He was so sad....
I think Herbert may be forgiven the sin of not wanting to go Full-On-Tolkien/Burgess & create new languages (which is a *tremendous* amount of work, even for a linguist: how much more so for us mere mortals, eh?) considering the utter brilliance of his works in general.
I admit I'm biased as I'm a Raging Fanboy™ when it comes to Frank Herbert; he was a conceptual genius & all-around amazing writer.