>> [...] what Greg
>> actually meant (Glorantha Book p35) was that no humans could actually
>> attain a skill of any higher than 25% in the _spoken_ [Auld Wyrmish]
>> *but* there is no restriction on the written language which was invented
>> by "clever humans" during the days of the EWF. It is still popular today
>> among "pedants"
> I guess that I inferred the implication... I didn't think there was a
>written form anymore. Your characters can still presumably undergo the
>operation so that you could get better, but it is a little disconcerting
>to others.
Why would you need an operation to understand written Auld Wyrmish? The olfactory, empathic and visual parts of spoken auld wyrmish are represented on paper like the aural component is - with written signs. One doesn't need to speak a language to be able to write it.
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