On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> writes: > > >On 1/5/06, Louis Eastman <almagaiz at gmail.com> wrote: > >> My memory might be off but I think Kiera already knew Vlad's name. I'm > >> surprised that didn't set off a warning bell when Vlad remembered it. > > > >Why should it have? She was in Vlad's father's restaurant; I'm sure > >she heard Vlad's father say: "Vlad, please bring our customers their > >food", or words to that effect. > > His dad calls his name right before she uses it. Page 3 in the > massmarket edition. I was just wondering if the Vladiad could have been dictated in Fenarian to simplify things on SKZB's side. We see Noish-pa talking to Vlad in Dragaeran, so I take it the latter language is his native tongue. I assume V's father spoke D for assimilationist reasons, though he was likely bilingual. I wonder if he spoke in F to V in the restaurant when ordering him around. If so, the above might conceivably not be evidence. There's a bit in _Issola_ where V mutters to himself in F, so perhaps he's fully bilingual or that's his milk tongue.