Talk:Pure Ferrets

Can we merge this with Ratguard? Both pages are pretty tiny and hold little information. FlinkyTheStoat 14:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I think merging them into 1 article is appropriate, not sure if Ratguard is the right name for the new article though... --LordTBT File:Tbtico.jpg ^Talk! 20:35, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Accent + Written "Language"

1. The RHOR script isn't really a "written language", it's a writing system for writing English that could also be considered a cipher or code.
2. The Pure Ferrets live in a northern land specifically said to contain fjords. The name of their fortress, "Riftgard", is a derivation from Norse and its daughter languages, Norwegian and Danish, in which it means "rift (same meaning in English) land or estate", sometimes "courtyard". Modern usage usually is restricted to gated yards and not to mighty estates, but that was certainly the former archaic use of the term.
Going just off the books, even written their accents "sound" equally as likely to be "Viking"/Old Norse as German (Old Norse and German are related languages and would sound similar), but only Old Norse really fits the characters and the setting. German accents is one hundred percent speculation and the line as it stands reads as a reader's perception/opinion rather than anything book-based.
If there is any reason to have a speculative line about the accent, Vikings appears more plausible than Germans, based on the names and setting of the family. Just because someone felt like Jacques was going for cartoon movie villain Germans doesn't mean he was, and his use of Old Norse words and location for the Riftgard ferrets contradicts the idea in part or in whole.
References:
Old Norse rift garðr: Dictionary compiled by Dr. Jesse Byock, UCLA Archaeology
Writing System vs. Language: Dr. David Crystal, OBE, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
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