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May. 10th, 2006 01:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leticiaOkay, you all know I love Exalted, right?
WEll, this is me being mildly snarky about their OMG JAPANESE roots.
I was glancing through the writing in Creation section at the back of the 1e PG, and lo and behold, it's basically Kanji-free Japanese (as far as the they go to explain it). The characters are (I presume, but honestly, I wouldn't know a Japanese squiggle from a made up squiggle) different, but they use the same sort of syllable based construction. There's a side note as to how the names of many of the great houses of the Realm don't work so well in this construction.
And I'm sitting here going, "So why the devil are the names of the ruling families breaking the language?" Cynis, Mnemon, Nellens, Peleps... are there ANY great house names that work in that sort of syllabary language?
It's like the only did it because OMG JAPANESE.
Also, it's bloody inconvenient when you want to use the alphabet so provided to spell words in english out. :p ENGRISH.
Anyhow. Night!
WEll, this is me being mildly snarky about their OMG JAPANESE roots.
I was glancing through the writing in Creation section at the back of the 1e PG, and lo and behold, it's basically Kanji-free Japanese (as far as the they go to explain it). The characters are (I presume, but honestly, I wouldn't know a Japanese squiggle from a made up squiggle) different, but they use the same sort of syllable based construction. There's a side note as to how the names of many of the great houses of the Realm don't work so well in this construction.
And I'm sitting here going, "So why the devil are the names of the ruling families breaking the language?" Cynis, Mnemon, Nellens, Peleps... are there ANY great house names that work in that sort of syllabary language?
It's like the only did it because OMG JAPANESE.
Also, it's bloody inconvenient when you want to use the alphabet so provided to spell words in english out. :p ENGRISH.
Anyhow. Night!
