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Jan. 4th, 2006 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baloonworldPaul has just started reading Katharine Kerr's "Daggerspell"
Actully the last statement is a lie, as he has only read the dedication, the acknowledgmets, the two maps and the pronunciation notes.
The pronunciation notes largly detail how verious worlds should be spoken with a welsh acent, but that "as for elvish, In a work of this sort it would be ridiculous to resort to the elaborate apparatus by which scholars attempt to transcribe that most subtle and nuanced of tongues" To me the sort of work to which such elaboartions are suitable would be academic papers (the word 'scholars' tipped me off) on evolved and constructed languages. Personally I think the book's title was an adiquate clue.
Equally the 6 rivers on the map that flow from the plains to the hills and down again are presumably to reassure me that the book is not aimed at geography geeks and those few obcessives who are opposed to antigravity rivers.
Gods I hate the maps in fantasy books.
Actully the most interesting pice of linguistics I've noticed is on the maps(from 1060 abd 1062), on which the name of the sea changes in 2 years from MORIER DDAE to MORI'R DDAE.
Actully the last statement is a lie, as he has only read the dedication, the acknowledgmets, the two maps and the pronunciation notes.
The pronunciation notes largly detail how verious worlds should be spoken with a welsh acent, but that "as for elvish, In a work of this sort it would be ridiculous to resort to the elaborate apparatus by which scholars attempt to transcribe that most subtle and nuanced of tongues" To me the sort of work to which such elaboartions are suitable would be academic papers (the word 'scholars' tipped me off) on evolved and constructed languages. Personally I think the book's title was an adiquate clue.
Equally the 6 rivers on the map that flow from the plains to the hills and down again are presumably to reassure me that the book is not aimed at geography geeks and those few obcessives who are opposed to antigravity rivers.
Gods I hate the maps in fantasy books.
Actully the most interesting pice of linguistics I've noticed is on the maps(from 1060 abd 1062), on which the name of the sea changes in 2 years from MORIER DDAE to MORI'R DDAE.
Granny, Lender of The Book says:
Date: 2006-01-07 05:34 pm (UTC)I must confess that I learnt years back to not even glance at fantasy maps, and usually ignore pronunciation guides.
Kerr's notes on how anglocentric people can be amused me though. People have apparantly come up with long, contrived and convoluted ways to resolve the differences between GB and Deverry to 'prove' that the books are set in the UK. Heh heh...