On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Andrew Lias wrote: >> Be that as it may, I'd guess that there's little that Sethra >> couldn't be the best at, if she put her mind to it (and none of >> your snarky Sethra-sure-is-dull comments, you! ;-). >In case this is directed at me, I assert I have never sneered at >Sethra - I think I just said Vlad is smarter than her. One of the things that I think Steve is trying to portray in his stories is that Dragaerans, with their exceedingly long lives, sometimes have a more leisurely and conservative attitude towards cogitation. I am not sure if this equates to Easterners being smarter, but rather that if an Easterner and a Dragaeran of similar intelligence are working on a problem, the Easterner will come to the conclusion first. And of course, there's different *kinds* of intelligence. >In any case I don't know what "snarky" means Hmm. I always kinda glorked from context that "snarky" means "rude, but usually witty". Google sayeth: "snarky: mixture of sarcastic and nasty", or alternatively "Irritable or short-tempered; irascible".