From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Sun 01 Sep 1996 - 05:16:15 EEST
John Hughes:
============
>Badgers are below the dignity of a serious hunter.
We don't hunt no steenkin' badgers!
Joerg Baumgartner:
==================
>Where in Glorantha did the term "hsunchen" originate, anyway? I doubt it is
>part of a hypothetical common hsunchen language. It might have been the word
>for "people" in one of the first "hsunchen" culture examined by the God
>Learners, though, paralleling names like "Graeci" for all the Hellenes and
>not just that northwestern tribe.
It says in the languages of Glorantha section that such a name been
common wherever hsunchen have dwelt. Although since most of these
places have suffered God Learner penetration (Tarien and the Six-legged
Empire, Shan-shan and the False Dragons Ring etc), the God Learner
spread of the word is plausible.
I'd always thought however that Hsunchen was the name the hsunchen
themselves had their primal ancestor in West Central Genertela and
that the western name Hykim came about via a combination of inadequate
orthography and the Silence.
- --Peter Metcalfe
------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 13 Jun 2003 - 16:52:37 EEST