Casey Rousseau writes:
>Rachel Louise Ruhlen wrote:
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>A simpler explanation is that Dragaerans don't generally have "blonde" hair,
>but when they do, the term includes the brilliant golden color that Vlad
>distinguishes from the more common blonde that might be found among
>Easterners.
I like this one -- it matches the difference in perspective that has
Vlad complaining about how Dragaereans don't know the difference
between wine and brandy, while Paarfi refers to "that type of wine
that the easterners refer to as brandy", which has a very different
flavor -- on this one, I think it's more that Vlad has never come to
grips with the fact that the Dragaerean word for "wine" is a much
broader word than the Eastern one, and refers to of distilled and
fortified beverages as well as simply fermented ones (presumably,
though not explicitly, the class of alcoholic beverages that are made
>from fruits -- by that logic, a hard cider is also probalby acocunted
"wine" by the Dragaereans.
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