Re: context

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From: Argrath_at_aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:03:21 -0400

In Glorantha Digest V2 #496, Howard Fielding writes:

>Perhaps the Aldryami might also
>have a High Context society, which is why that Trader in Elder Secrets might
>have run into trouble. Perhaps they get MAD not embarassed?

All (85%) Gloranthan societies are high context. You get that with homogenous societies a lot. Aldryami definitely are, and their context employs a sense which humans lack. Thus, humans are always clueless when dealing with Aldryami, blundering around and mucking things up. They have learned to ask about the weather, but they don't seem to understand the response...

--Martin