[Namron] Who is the new B&B (lan gu age and speling?) :D

[Craig Pharaoh]

>From: V Scribe <vscribe at cox.net>
>Reply-To: Barony of Namron Mailing List <namron at ansteorra.org>
>To: Barony of Namron Mailing List <namron at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Namron] Who is the new B&B
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:35:07 -0500
>
>'Since he will be our Baron shortly',(How short is he?  Are
we supposed to call him Dvncvn, the Baron Shortly?)

let's all learn how to spell his
>name:
>
>Donnchadh, not Duncan.

(That's not very period, if you are not a scribe or a literate decendant of 
the Erse raiders who inhabited the northern wilds of the British Isle, and 
were called Scotti to distinquish them from the Picts...., you would spell 
it like it sounds to you, just look at the Roman or Old English 
spellings....

I mean, what literate Roman really cares how the barbarians spell their 
names? )
>
>If I had to learn how to spell it, so should you all.  (If you are a 
>scribe)

(How do you spell Beret Fizzwater Renolds, anyway?  Where is the proper 
genitive masculine ending for that name? Beretius Fizzwaterius Renaldii?)

Just kidding, of course!  If you want to write about or to a person, you 
should learn how they spell their name, using latin alphabet letters, for 
the most part.  The scribes rarely will put the actual names in any other 
alphabet, and should not be expected to read most other alphabets... but 
they do expect you to figure out the foreign and twisted translations into 
latin alphabets.... go figure.

CAIVS FABIVS