"Every language is a world." — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 'Philosophical Investigations', §19 (the Bureau's Bleed Containment Division has underlined 'every' and added: 'the problem is when they want to be ours')
BUREAU OF IMPOSSIBLE GEOGRAPHY — BLEED SIGNATURE ANALYSIS REPORT Shard Designation: The Architecture of Babel (Glossolaria-Prime) Report Classification: EYES-RESTRICTED Filing Division: Adjacent Reality Contamination Unit, Sector Seven Status: ONGOING MONITORING — CONTAINMENT PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION The bleed signature of the Glossolaria shard is unique in the Bureau's catalogued portfolio for the precision of its contamination vector. Most shard bleeds operate through sensory or material transmission: a fire-world scorches adjacent margins; a cold-world drops temperatures; a memory-world erodes proper nouns. Glossolaria's bleed operates through grammar. Specifically: through the progressive replacement of the grammatical structures native to an adjacent reality with structures borrowed from extinct languages that should have no living speakers and therefore no grammatical will to spread. The mechanism is not understood. The effect is documented. Adjacent r...
From the lore of The Architecture of Babel.