>I'm not sure where that might get into Glorantha,
>though? Where do they have specialists so specialised
>that they use their own jargon? Devotees, to go by the
>earlier "devotee = geek" discussion?
Just about anywhere there is job or activity specialisation. Next time you're bored have a look for the names of all the different bits of horse furniture. A shorter exercise would be all the different names for cattle. Often treated as synonyms today they do in fact have separate precise meanings. I bet the Heortlings of Sartar use every one of them while the citizens of Karse wonder why a single animal needs so many names.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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