Glyphs
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Apr 1999
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1473

Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright
in each message remains with the person who wrote it.

Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original
archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than
retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.

==============================================================================

Roy C. Lackey — 01 Apr 1999, 22:34

> > William Ansley wrote:
> > This may not be reliable evidence of the letter shapes at all. Since Wolfe
> > "translated" TBotNS from a strange future tongue he probably had to make an
> > adjustment in this passage. For all we know the last two letters in the
> > actual word Severian used (which Wolfe translated as 'last') looked
> > entirely different. We could have had a hoop and a cup rather than a
> > serpent and a sword, just to pick two more objects at random that can
> > conceivably be thought to look like other letters in our alphabet. Which
> > letters? I'll leave that as an exercise for you.<<

    While we're at it, these "glyphs" from "The Tale of the Rose and the
Nightingale (And What Came of It)":

    "...a bent object that might be a whip, a human leg and a foot, a
shallow cup, and a crocodile."

Roy

------------------------------------------------------------------------------