Message text written by INTERNET:glorantha_at_chaosium.com
"Hmmm If you're going to use real world place names then kindly ignore any
in
the US or anywhere else where a bunch of uneducated semi-literate colonists
sat down with a blank sheet of paper and ignored Hell out of what the
locals
called the place."
And where would this miraculous place be, pray tell? Every settled inch of the world's surface has been taken by force from one or more groups of people by one or more different groups of people. In fact the "undeducated semi-literate colonists" of the USA were a hell of a lot more educated than, say, the Angles or the Normans. So the fact that the undeducated place-naming was done a century ago instead of nine centuries ago does not change its nature. Thus the place names of the US make as much sense, or as little, as those of any other place on this earth, or on Glorantha.
Jim Chapin
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