(still catching up) --- Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:05:21 -0800, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> > wrote: > >> Do you refer to your father by name? > > No, but I don't refer to my grandfather by first-name either, yet Vlad > > clearly does. (Unless "Noish-pa" is some sort of Hungarian/Fenarian > > endearment. > > I always assumed so. It looks a lot like "Grand-pa" to me. It is: Hungarian "Nagy-pa" with a little skew added for the passage of time, Steve has told me. (It's about the amount of skew you'd get in a few hundred years at most -- languages become totally unrecognizable within a few thousand, let alone 200,000 -- but that's a longstanding question about the world of Dragaera, so let it pass.) mam/c&s __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com