--- David Goldfarb <goldfarb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > From: Ken Padgett <kpadgett1 at cox.net> > >> From: "Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net> > >> Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > >> > It means that Steve will never be able to write _Dzur_, > >> > however, unless he goes back to Ace. > >> > >> No, it means that Steve will cross this particular bridge if and when > he > >> comes to it. With the third volume of Viscount, there was more than > one > >> way to title the book such that the title character remains the same. > >> One of the two choices considered has the word Dzur in it. The other > >> doesn't. Steven decided that it didn't make that much difference to > >> him. > > > >Of course, according to Steve's Weblog, TIASSA just turned into DZUR, > >so tomorrow may be today. The wings fell off? > Interesting, I hadn't seen that yet. Me neither. I hope "The book has picked up nicely" is the answer to the previous post about possibly not enjoying writing it. > I think there's a noticeable difference between "The Enchantress of > Dzur Mountain", which is long, and just "Dzur", which has the hard to > say word in it but is at least short. With luck the latter will be > more manageable. I'd guess that it would be better to say "The Enchantress of *inaudible* Mountain" or "Brust's new book about the Enchantress" than it would be to cope with one "unpronounceable" word. I also think Casey Rousseau is right--the people at Tor must have seen this coming, and there's really no choice. The only time I ever heard somebody say "Dzus", he pronounced it "Deezus", to rhyme with "Jesus". There must be people say "Dzur" similarly. Sort of the way some Poul Anderson readers pronounce "Van Rijn" as "Van Ridgen". (For those who don't know why anyone would say "Dzus", see <http://www.dzus.co.uk/Live/Dzus/CMS.nsf/Site/Home/HomePage>.) Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html