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In Le Guin's Earthsea series, magic is based on knowing the "true name" of a thing (this gives the wizard/witch power over it). The K language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)) is famously impenetrable to read but is not named after Le Guin as far as I know.

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> In Le Guin's Earthsea series, magic is based on knowing the "true name" of a thing

This is a common thing among many fantasy fiction works, so it's hard to tell what inspired it; might not be Eartsea.

It comes from ancient folklore (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name). I mention Earthsea here because Aphyr is referencing Ursula K. Le Guin specifically.

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