A low blow to Western Logographers?

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:31:22 +0100 (BST)


One tiny piece of trivia from Convulsion, though I'm sure many of you have heard or read the relevant datum for yourselves already: The Brithini, on the evidence of Arkat's Saga, use acronyms. Indeed, non-phonetic acronyms, since _TA_lar _M_alaskan _P_hillippe_ becomes not 'Tamf', but 'Tamp'. Now, one could put this down to artistic licence, 'translation errors', etc, but if the actual Greggly data is anything at all to go by, this has pretty strong implications for the type of script they use. (Compare with Pelandan and Kralorelan, where he's taken pains to write words 'GlyphStyle', in recent work.)

Cheers,
Alex.


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