From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Mon 10 Jul 2000 - 23:27:37 EEST
David Cake on "Brithini Latin":
> Which I still say would be a common language used across
> cultures, rather than the one script for multiple languages that we
> are told is the case.
No it ain't. The point is that for several centuries, the only
'written form' of Italian, French, etc, _was_ Latin.
> The runes is just circumstantial evidence.
> Besides, I like the idea of throwing the Chinese analogue
Yeah. Isn't it great when we destroy what little intuition we already
Evidence of nothing at all, IMO. Does iconography in any RW culture
you care provide evidence of a logographic script, ? Glorantha, OTOH,
already seems over-endowed with the practice...
> script into the Western world rather than the more predictable Latin
> analogue.
have about the West. Similarly, let's make lots of other jarringly
inappropriate inclusions into other cultures. Doraddi saunas and
Kralori jousting, anyone?
Cheers,
Alex.
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