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- From: jbuhler@owlnet.rice.edu (Jeremy Daniel Buhler)
- Subject: Re: Von Junzt - spelling question
- Message-ID: <C03s17.Ens@rice.edu>
- Summary: Junzt, Alhazred, etc
- Keywords: Junzt Juntz Alhazred
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- Organization: Rice University
- References: <1992Dec28.142251.27520@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> <1992Dec30.121255.9801@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <1992Dec30.142251.20283@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:53:31 GMT
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- > correctly it's Juntz - and my feeling for my mother language also tells
- > me... Junzt would be too fancy, wouldn't it?
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- With great respect for your mother language ... maybe HPL fudged it a little?
- To my emphatically yankee ear, von Junzt sounds much more mysterious and
- sinister than von Juntz. I can only point to HPL's use of Abdul Alhazred -
- a very un-Arabic name, but impressive to Americans (and obviously French,
- Germans, etc :-). Chaosium, in their Call Of Cthulhu, changed the name (I
- disremember how) to be more authentically Arabic, but it gains nothing in
- dramatic effect. I think it's Abd al-Azred?
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