Re: Samples are excellent, but....

From: jorganos <joe_at_...>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:24:10 -0000

David Cake wrote:
> I can't imagine the Dawn Age tribes had a high degree of literacy, or that standardising naming conventions was high on their list of priorities.

This has nothing at all to do with literacy or standardising naming conventions, this is about how language shifts work, or in this case, only work as a typo. A non-literate society which has Koroltes and not Korolites as the tribe founded by Korol, Orgovaltes and not Orgovalites as the tribe founded by Orgovale and Ulanin (both derived from names not ending on a te) will not suddenly develop Vestanites out of the name Vestante.

I wouldn't protest Orogovaltes instead of Orgovaltes, that's sort of plausible. Both other -tes winter tribes would make sense as -ites.

> And some sources suggest that the scholars of Lhankor Mhy still aren't even a 100% settled on how to spell Lankhor Mhy.

Now that's a dialect shift that may happen (similar things happen e.g. in Alemannic German pronunciations).