From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 20 Jul 2000 - 20:30:18 EEST
Roger McCarthy suggests:
> The only way to reconcile HW and GCotHW that I can see would be to assert
> that in fact Old Seshnelan/Slontan (and not some weird logographic form of
> Brithini) is the One Written Western Language in which case not just the
> Seshnelans, God Learners, Akemites, Loskalmi and Safelstrans but even the
> Brithini are/were all using a language that presumably only developed a
> written form sometime in the Dawn Age.
Or that 'all Malkioni' are using a single written form of Western
systematised _more recently_ than the misadventures of Ethelrist.
Or indeed that it's a self-conscious throwback to an earlier time, say.
See any number of you at Convulsion! Please make yourselves known
to me according to the following categories:
a) Owes me a drink.
b) Are owed a drink.
c) Any other excuse whatsoever involving 'drinking'.
Cheers,
Alex.
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