From: Nick Brooke (Nick_Brooke@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon 17 Jul 2000 - 10:22:52 EEST
Henrix writes at great length about Western scripts. My point, however, has
always been more about Western colour and Western language.
In my Glorantha, Western priests and sorcerers and lawyers and scientists
and doctors use high-falutin' "Latin" words when they talk about their
professional specialisms. They can correspond with each other across
national boundaries in a self-consciously "archaic" language, which is also
prominent in official courtly proclamations, letters to rival monarchs,
charters of nobility and the like. Students are taught in often
quasi-monastic institutions where this "dead" language is used throughout
their everyday routines, utterly unlike anything that happens in the real
world outside their confines.
What does any of this local colour have to do with alphabets or syllaberies
or logograms? Nothing whatsoever.
Does "Brithini Latin" mean the Western languages are very similar? Yes, it
does, and we are told that they are, and the HW rules suggest that you
ignore language issues anyway so I hardly see this as a back-breaker for the
proposal.
Besides, I don't care what you get up to in your Glorantha, as long as you
don't insist on pissing poorly conceived Chinese allegories all over my
West.
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