RE: Learning Languages was Re: Larnsti Brotherhood

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From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:20:26 +0100

> > YGWV, but I think its wrong on many ways to view the Gloranthan
> > learning of languages to the real world. Gloranthans have gods of
> > communication and literacy that are active. FWIW I think the
> > current discussion about the lack of written Heortling
> language puts
> > the Heortlings down to the literacy level of what I imagined the
> > Praxians to be.

> Woah, I never said there is not a written Heortling language! Of
> course there is - I just said that literacy is a monopoly of the
> Lhankkor Mhy cult. Just check out Storm Tribe pg 126.

The Praxians, however, have no written language, as I understand it, not even in a specialist caste/cult? But they do have a system of knot-writing, with presumably a very limited "vocabulary"?