Re: OT: Corpses, etc. (was: Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)))
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Sunday, November 9, 2003, 21:49 |
|---|
--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> At 04:08 9.11.2003, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
>
> >For reasons not entirely clear, copying by
> >hand doesn't have this side effect.
>
> Probably because quills are usuallu scrapped
> (probably burned) and replaced several times
> during the copying of any single book, and
> certainly a new quill is cut when starting
> on a new book.
Yes, that certainly makes sense. I doubt very
much they have metal nibbed pens, but they may
have wooden ones (?). Even so, they wouldn't last
terribly long either.
Padraic.
=====
fas peryn omen c' yng ach h-yst yn caleor peryn ndia;
enffoge yn omen ach h-yst yn caleor per la gouitha.
[T. Pratchett]
--
Ill Bethisad --
<http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad>
Come visit The World! --
<http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/>
.
Replies