Re: Family project
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 1, 2001, 1:03 |
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, David Stokes wrote:
>Setting it on Earth allows borrowings from natlangs. I kind of like the
>alternate earth ideas people have mentioned, Allows pretty free play, but
>we can import things if we feel the need.
Yes, that is a good point. I see no problem with someone 'borrowing'
the word "wang" (king) from another language on this world that just
happens to be remarkably Chineselike. Of course, there's no need to
necessarily assume all the cultural and historical baggage - it's
"Chinese", just not "Chinese as we know it".
Padraic.