From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Tue 01 Aug 2000 - 23:31:22 EEST
One tiny piece of trivia from Convulsion, though I'm sure many of you
have heard or read the relevant datum for yourselves already: The
Brithini, on the evidence of Arkat's Saga, use acronyms. Indeed,
non-phonetic acronyms, since _TA_lar _M_alaskan _P_hillippe_ becomes
not 'Tamf', but 'Tamp'. Now, one could put this down to artistic
licence, 'translation errors', etc, but if the actual Greggly data
is anything at all to go by, this has pretty strong implications
for the type of script they use. (Compare with Pelandan and
Kralorelan, where he's taken pains to write words 'GlyphStyle',
in recent work.)
Cheers,
Alex.
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