Talk:Aethelric

Is there evidence in the book that the name should be spelled "Æthelric", and not "Aethelric" as this article states it is written in the book? --Sntint 14:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Æthelric si the correct era-specific spelling of that name.

Comics are lettered in a very limited character set that does not include ligatures. We dont' go assuming peoples names are all-caps just because comics lacked lowercases either. -Derik 14:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, no, we don't. There's no precedent for all-capitalized names (except in Hyrule.) This, though, seems like a farther leap of logic than that would be, IMO. I'll read up on ligatures tonight. --Sntint 15:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

As I understand it, while fonts may consider Æ a separate 'letter,' from a typographical standpoint it is equivalent to 'Ae'-- Æthelric == Aethelric. It's not a different spelling-- it's merely a rendering of the first two letters as one character.

If Ron Wasserman were to be discussed by a future society which had discarded the letter W (I use this because it's a relatively recent addition tot he alphabet) his correct name would not become Rov VVaserman-- even though it would doubtless be common to see it rendered thus. (This is distinct from my previosu point because though W started as a double-v ligature, ti became its own letter because it had a unique pronunciation.) -Derik 16:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I say we spell the name the way it's spelled in the book. After all, we have the Energon episode at Scorpinok. The published material beats author intent. The Æ spelling should be limited to trivia, as it was never used in the published material. --FortMax 21:07, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

To repeat my earlier statement- Æthelric is not a different spelling. It simply has the first two letters ligatured together- which is the correct way of rendering that name in that era. Æ == Ae. However Æ cannto appear in comic-book-lettering for the same reason lower-case letters cannot. Thus 'Æthelric' is similar to placing the Energon episoce at Scorpinok instead of SCORPINOK. The title was, after all, all-caps. -Derik 23:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I would normally be inclined to agree with Derik on this point -- it is not actually a different spelling to combine the two letters -- but at the same time, I'm pretty sure comics in the mid 1980s were still lettered by hand, not with a computer, so there would have been no "character set" restriction as he mentions. If they'd wanted to combine the letters, they would have. So... I think there's no point in combining them here. --Steve-o 01:44, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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