Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 13 | 21 | With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, and thus that the difference to him between more than four hundred signs and less than thirty would be negligible. |
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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.
With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, and thus that the difference to him between more than four hundred signs and less than thirty would be negligible.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )