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In David and Leigh Eddings's Malloreon series, one of the characters, a ruler, styles himself ’Zakath, with the apostrophe. The characters under his rule use the apostrophe; those who oppose him do...
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2019-12-13T12:00:30Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T04:36:28Z (over 4 years ago)
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In David and Leigh Eddings's Malloreon series, one of the characters, a ruler, styles himself **’Zakath** , with the apostrophe. The characters under his rule use the apostrophe; those who oppose him don't, if I recall correctly. So those who do and don't use it say as much about the character as the apostrophe does: do you respect (or fear) the person enough to spell his name as he wants? It's later revealed that the apostrophe is meant to stand for "Kal," which means "King and God" (so the ruler is using an epithet attached to the country's actual god, Kal Torak). When the meaning of the apostrophe is revealed, it's done with great glee at Zakath's pretentiousness, because in this case he _is_ pretentious. By all means, reference your character as _'tina_ if it means something to her, and she can absolutely insist on it. You have a reason for it and character development behind it.
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2015-09-03T20:24:46Z (over 8 years ago)
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