RE: Re: Larnsti Brotherhood

From: donald_at_...
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 04:13:57 GMT


In message <20050603171829.GXXO15401.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com_at_homemaster> "Jane Williams" writes:

>And therefore, the spelling of Broyan/Brian/Brion's name is completely
>irrelevant and meaningless to Orlanthi society, almost certainly including
>him.

It's easy enough for differing accents to be produce that sort of difference in spelling when written down. That's assuming the language the name was first written in records vowels - some languages, e.g. Hebrew, don't. So it could have been written "Brn" because everyone knows what vowels are correct.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

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