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- From: mdouglas@cad067.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Maria Douglas )
- Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
- Subject: Re: Von Junzt - spelling question
- Message-ID: <C030xo.Bzy@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:08:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.101953.26482@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
- Sender: mdouglas@cad067 (Maria Douglas )
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- In article <1992Dec28.101953.26482@ousrvr.oulu.fi>, sn@phoenix.oulu.fi (Sami Nieminen) writes:
- |>
- |> Although this notorious name is clearly German-based, I'm not quite
- |> sure if it's an actual German name. According to my own (rather hazy)
- |> knowledge of German, words like that are usually spelled with the 't'
- |> before the 'z' (as in 'schwartz'). So, I think that the right form
- |> would be 'von Juntz'. Are there any native Germans out there who could
- |> say which, if either, form is correct ?
- |> I know that the name was made up by Robert E. Howard (author of
- |> Conan), so he might not have been very precise on right form of
- |> spelling.
- |>
- |> ---sn@phoenix.oulu.fi
- |>
- |> P.S. Chaosium also spells the name of his book wrong. It's
- |> 'Unaussprechlichen Kulten', with two 's':s in the middle, not
- |> 'Unausprechlichen'. (That I am sure of, it's so elementary [or...?]).
-
- You're correct, my man. I've had a terrible time with that name because
- I've ALWAYS wanted to fix the spelling (and often do anyway, seeing as
- how I'm an anal-retentive Editor). Also, I was just reading a lengthy
- piece about Mr. Howard which was a forward to one of his recently
- re-released books (I think it was called "Hour of Darkness" or some
- such thing). Howard was apparently pretty notorious at *Weird Tales*
- for his bad spelling. Some of his writing is just being released
- in its original form (sans any editting or other corrections) as it
- was submitted to Weird Tales. Eeek! (Don't mind me...)
-
- M-
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