> Marain, the language of the culture, was explicitly designed to “guide” the thoughts of its human speakers I think you're overstating this. Especially consid

> Marain, the language of the culture, was explicitly designed to “guide” the thoughts of its human speakers I think you're overstating this. Especially considering that Marain is spoken both by humans and minds. In Banks' own words: > Marain is a synthetic language created towards the very beginning of the Culture with the specific intention of providing a means of expression which would be a culturally inclusive and as encompassingly comprehensive in its technical and representational possibilities as practically achievable - a language, in short, that would appeal to poets, pedants, engineers and programmers alike. https://trevor-hopkins.com/banks/a-few-notes-on-marain.html https://trevor-hopkins.com/banks/a-few-notes-on-marain.html