(urth) Mystery of Ascia/Agia

[Jeff Wilson]

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.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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