Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/05/06 05:56 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: (Orca spoiler) >Well, he's been to Fenarr, and it's some sort of soldier's curse. >Oddly enough, cursing seems to be one of the first things people pick >up in a new language; perhaps because the grammar of expletives is so >basic, and expletives are disproportionately likely to be curses. So >it could be a phrase learned in adulthood, even. > >Max Wilson There is it. It's on Phoenix's page, towards the bottom. http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/brust/books.html Tragya means (according to this translation), "We're in deep shit." and Legalabb is "At least." Majikjon