On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Jerry Friedman wrote: #By the way, if anyone is really bored, you can wonder why such #names as Istvan and Tomas are the *only* trace of Christianity #we've seen on Dragaera. Or are they not Christian? Yes, they are. But my name is Mark, and I'm Jewish, and my ancestors as far back as anyone has any idea have been Jewish. Names come into a language and a culture and lose their associations with their origins. In point of fact, after >200,000 years no name or word or language would be recognizable. This is something that Steve has done as an author that we can try to explain away within Dragaera, or that we can simply refuse to worry about. I don't have a problem with it. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel