Dragaera

gaming stuff (was RE: Two words about two letters)

Mon Jun 12 20:50:48 PDT 2006


On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Casey Rousseau wrote:

> Philip Hart wrote:

> > 4.  Oaths - touching that Piro has adopted "Cha!".  Rather chilling that
> > the Musketeers (except Aerich?) use "Star me", hearkening back to the
> > nearly-abrupt conclusion of PG. I found "The Trey", presumably appearing
> > to complement Verra's sisters, rather jarring.
>
> Somehow, I saw no connection to the three goddesses in that interjection.  I
> read it as similar to "The Deuce!" an oath exclaiming bad luck (perhaps
> related to dice throwing? - snake eyes?) perhaps with some similar
> connection to a game of chance.  There was one instance in the text that
> Deuce was used perhaps inadvertently instead of Trey.  I think Mark Mandel
> noted it and thought that this might explain the apparent copy editing error
> that there are one or two instances where Trey is not capitalized.


Maybe the above is relevant to some recent discussion.

Amusingly, "the deuce" is a euphemism for "the devil" - maybe "the trey"
is a similar euphemism.