From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 18 Jul 1994 - 20:54:01 EEST
Nick:
> > > [...] a Death Rune (in Brithini terms, an unclean & contaminating item)
Me:
> > In Brithini terms, a meaningless pagan icon, shurely.
David Cake:
> I tend towards the idea that the Runes actual shapes are descended from
> Western, which is probably an ideographic writing form like Kanji (several
> different spoken languages share one written form, the only earth equivalent
> as far as I know being Kanji).
I'm not sure if you refer to the different dialects of Chinese, or to Chinese and Japanese using the same characters. Note that the Japanese don't use Kanji to mean the same word as the Chinese use the same character. (Except when they do, of course; sometimes the Japanese read a particular character as having its "Chinese meaning", rather than its perfect decent, and different meaning in Japanese. Confused? I certainly was.)
> In this case the Runes would be well known to Brithini, though they
> would certainly consider Theyalan use of them rather odd ('Now let me get
> this straight, you worship the letters D and F and want to destroy all those
> who worship the letter U?').
Or crucifying them on a giant letter H, indeed. Are you suggesting that the Western "ideographs" have a quite different meaning in the West as in Theyalan country, the same basic meaning, though different "significance", or that it's actually just an alphabet or syllabary for the Westerners?
Alex.
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