…and she said that’s it…that’s…I’ll do it for that, you give…you make sure they give you a copy of each of the weapons they make, and with LIVE blades, which means sharpened, not dull. She said I want live blades, so…
Uh, to go back to pronunciation.
Yeah?
My problem with phoneticism is this, I like…uh…I’m reading from a character’s point of view and he hears a name he’s(?) never heard before. So…he can’t know the spelling and even…of course it’s not the character writing it [??]. But that’s my point again, it’s writing this way than it is, uh…non-phonetic way, but I don’t want to dwell on that too long. It’s just that I’m a great Tolkien fan and I…
[interrupts; Q keeps talking for a few seconds but is incomprehensible] But as I say: I write in English, and in English very few names a phonetical…
That’s right.
…and uh…so I don’t…so I don’t use that.
[something about words and letters or Latin]
[Hmm’s in agreement]
Indeed!
It would be strange to have phonetics names, when you don’t have phonetic [writing?]
But that…that goes back to the history of English, with…I mean…
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