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Alexeph Stoekai
Stoekai Corp
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Posted - 2010.01.02 21:29:00 -
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A) There is nothing indicating they speak any form of Greek.
B) Tracing the EVE races back to modern cultures is a futile experiment as even if you can point to a historical connection, the EVE races underwent a 15000-year dark age that would have definitely wiped out any cultural connection beyond the superficial. For example, the Gallente don't speak French - it's just a convenient stand-in for old or obscure Gallente dialects. In the same way the Amarr don't speak Latin or Greek, even if some roleplayers enjoy using the former because of the religious under/overtones.
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Alexeph Stoekai
Stoekai Corp
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Posted - 2010.01.03 12:23:00 -
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 Originally by: Garion Avarr
We have seen Greek characters on the old graphics Bestower hull, so they do seem to know of the Greek alphabet beyond its use in mathematics and science (since neither of those seem like reasons for the Amarr to put characters prominently on a ship's hull). They might not speak it as their everyday language, but it's certainly a strong possibility, and if not, it probably has some religious significance.
I still fail to see how one single (possibly outdated) appearance of a few glyphs from an alphabet indicates any sort of predominance of the Greek language.
I will point out that many corporate logos are based around the latin alphabet and english words, and that this does not mean that the EVE races speak latin or english. Even so, they are far more common and more visible than the supposedly-greek letters on the Bestower.
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Alexeph Stoekai
Stoekai Corp
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Posted - 2010.01.06 17:53:00 -
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Edited by: Alexeph Stoekai on 06/01/2010 17:53:48
Originally by: Garion Avarr
Because outside of science and math, I'm not sure exactly what the Greek alphabet is used for other than the language itself? It appears in religious symbolism, yes, but that still involves some links to the language, though not full use of the language.
EDIT: Lokked it up on Wikipedia, and there are a few other languages that use the Greek alphabet today, but . . . they seem rather obscure.
It's 1795 years until The Conformists settle Soekheviti. It's 5990 years until Dano Gheinok cements the ancient foundations of the Amarr religion. It's over 17000 years until the Amarr unify all people on Athra.
That is enough time for an existing language to change beyond recognition and even to create a language from scratch... I admit that it's a possibility that the Amarr make use of or have made use of the Greek alphabet (or something very similar to it) for something at some point in their history... but that doesn't mean that they speak anything resembling Greek!
And please note the single scrap of evidence that this argument is based on has been removed from the game. That old Bestower texture dates back to the dawn of the game, designed by a department at CCP which probably have very few connections to the couple of people who were deciding the storyline. Do you really want to pin a core factor of a race's culture on this?
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