While the pronunciation of "Broyan" might indeed be the same for most English-speaking readers of the HQ books, I tend to use a lot of hyper-corrections, thus I say something like "Brooow-yun", not "Brian." A spelling pronunciation, if you will.
"Scott Rogers" <amaretto_sirloin_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> By "not lierate", do you mean that it is not a collective dialect? Or just that they can't talk?
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> Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...> wrote:> Is Brian of the Volsaxi not King Bryon?
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> Yes.
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> > And at what
> > point does the spelling change and why?
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> Between RQ and HW, I think. I have no idea why. Just
> to make the name seem more "foreign", perhaps? After
> all, while "Brian" is a perfectly good Celtic name,
> it's also still quite common today, so it has a feel
> rather like having Vingans called Sharon and Tracey.
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> > Is one a heortling dialect and one Dara Happan?
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> Since the Heortling culture is not a literate one,
> that's probably not a meaningful question.
> Pronounciation is the same.
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> Jane Williams
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