Mystery of Ascia/Agia

Jeff Wilson · 21 Jan 2011, 07:35 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:35:45 -0600
Subject: (urth) Mystery of Ascia/Agia
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On 1/20/2011 7:33 PM, Son of Witz wrote:

> Why would Wolfe, who does A
> LOT of intentional linking of phonetically similar names, use the word
> Ascian for what are essentially a communist metaphor?

I think you and Lee may have caught a red herring here; Mantiss gives 
the pronunciation of Ascia as uh-SKI-ah, while Asia is AY-zha. This is 
from the post-Lexicon GURPS NEW SUN book, so while it is not received 
wisdom, it at least has been voiced thusly in the author's presence and 
recorded as not meeting objection.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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