Dragaera

Elvtarsok

Tue Dec 14 13:06:14 PST 2004

--- Martin Wohlert <martin_wohlert at hotmail.com> wrote:

> To steal the context from Cracks and Shards:
> 
> 
> "elvtarsok": Noish-pa cannot think of the Dragaeran word he wants to 
> describe Kelly's people, in relation to the murdered Franz [Tek52]:
> [Noish-pa:] "Well, his people, his -- what is the word? Elvtarsok?"
> [Vlad:] "Friends? Associates?"
> Noish-pa is never at a loss for words, in any sense.

He's sometimes at a loss for Dragaeran/English words.  Doesn't he
use the Fenarian/Hungarian word for "revolutionaries" at some
point in _Teckla_ or probably _Phoenix_?  "Forradalmártok" or
something (thanks to <http://dict.sztaki.hu/dict_search.english-hungarian>
for "forradalmár").

> Is Brust doing 
> something with the first syllable's resemblance to "elves"?

Hm, I hadn't noticed that.

Jerry Friedman

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