On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > > #> #How do we know? The "Texts" may be entirely verbal records... > #> > #> 1. That they most assuredly are, since they incorporate no maps, > #> graphics, illustrations, or any other content than words. > # > #Maybe SKZB stripped out all the maps/paintings/psiprints from the > #Paarfiad. > > Quite possible, but unprovable, and as far as I know not supported by > any evidence. There wouldn't be - SKZB would have covered his trail. Unless he didn't, which would lend a certain degree of proof. > Similarly, we have an existing standard in Mr. Brust's works for the > English spelling of names and words from the world of Dragaera, and that > is what we should follow. Notice that I follow them. But I don't see any reason to think the spelling is anything but arbitrary and hence "Morollan" seems to me less reasonably subject to righteous nitpickery than misspellings in our language.