Dragaera

Elvtarsok

Wed Dec 15 08:09:08 PST 2004

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Martin Wohlert wrote:

@> "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. Is Brust doing
@> something with the first syllable's resemblance to "elves"?
@>
@>
@> I checked an online Hungarian-English dictionary, and found these two
@> suspects:
@> elvtárs  comrade
@> and
@> társak  companions


I always thought he was doing something with the word 'comrade' in the
sense of 'member of a Communist organization', but I could be reading too
much into it.