On 3/9/06, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > > We have seen the case of one Dragaeran complaining that he needed to > quit his job because of his age - being told to bide his complaint by > Sethra. But the point there was that, by Dragaeran standards, he was nowhere near "old". "An excellent observation, madam. I should, above all, not care to weaken the sense of a perfectly good word." He was also called on his "age" by someone much younger than him, who pointed out that he wasn't even middle-aged yet.