Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 17 | "You just write it View more quotes about forward">forward but in the other direction". |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 14 | Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, never forgave me this and to this day, if he lives, he undoubtedly considers me partly illiterate. |
| 13 | 15 | As he said, I would never make a Scribe. |
| 13 | 16 | "It is simple," he said. |
| 13 | 17 | "You just write it forward but in the other direction". |
| 13 | 18 | The syllabary of Priest-Kings, not to be confused with their set of seventy-three "phonemes," consists of what seems to me to be a somewhat unwieldy four hundred and eleven characters, each of which stands of course for a phoneme or phoneme combination, normally a combination. |
| 13 | 19 | Certain juxtapositions of these phonemes and phoneme combinations, naturally, form words. |
| 13 | 20 | I would have supposed a simpler syllabary, or even an experimentation with a nonscented perhaps alphabetic graphic script, would have been desirable linguistic ventures for the Priest-Kings, but as far as I know they were never made. |
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Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, never forgave me this and to this day, if he lives, he undoubtedly considers me partly illiterate.
As he said, I would never make a Scribe.
"It is simple," he said.
"You just write it forward but in the other direction".
The syllabary of Priest-Kings, not to be confused with their set of seventy-three "phonemes," consists of what seems to me to be a somewhat unwieldy four hundred and eleven characters, each of which stands of course for a phoneme or phoneme combination, normally a combination.
Certain juxtapositions of these phonemes and phoneme combinations, naturally, form words.
I would have supposed a simpler syllabary, or even an experimentation with a nonscented perhaps alphabetic graphic script, would have been desirable linguistic ventures for the Priest-Kings, but as far as I know they were never made.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)