So I figure, he learned a decent amount of English from Maria, some of it rude and/or dirty, but in those days English spelling was basically exactly how the words were pronounced, not all fossilized and standardized the way it is now. So when Altair goes to write something in English, he has to first translate it in his head, then figure out how to write it in this wacky left to right alphabet. So unless he remembers that something has a weird spelling, he spells it like it's Arabic: phonetically, minus vowels.
Especially since the vowels he hears the modern assassins saying are not the vowels he learned from Maria.
Haytham's spelling, too, should have been more irregular, but I didn't have any points of reference available when I was writing, for how an upper middle class, fairly intellectual Brit of that time period would spell. A well educated Syrian cult leader from the Third Crusade who married an English woman and wound up in a computer in a cave in 2012, listening to three twentysomethings bicker, insult each other, and illegally download The Walking Dead? Yeah I can just make up how that dude spells.
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So I figure, he learned a decent amount of English from Maria, some of it rude and/or dirty, but in those days English spelling was basically exactly how the words were pronounced, not all fossilized and standardized the way it is now. So when Altair goes to write something in English, he has to first translate it in his head, then figure out how to write it in this wacky left to right alphabet. So unless he remembers that something has a weird spelling, he spells it like it's Arabic: phonetically, minus vowels.
Especially since the vowels he hears the modern assassins saying are not the vowels he learned from Maria.
Haytham's spelling, too, should have been more irregular, but I didn't have any points of reference available when I was writing, for how an upper middle class, fairly intellectual Brit of that time period would spell. A well educated Syrian cult leader from the Third Crusade who married an English woman and wound up in a computer in a cave in 2012, listening to three twentysomethings bicker, insult each other, and illegally download The Walking Dead? Yeah I can just make up how that dude spells.