On 6/13/2006 4:29 PM Jon Lincicum wrote: > >/Phoenix/, Chapter 7. (Page 255, omnibus) > >> > >> "You haven't met (Sethra) yet, so picture if you will a tall > Dragaeran > >> wearing... > > Hmmm... "Tall for a Dragaeran" vs "a tall Dragaeran". > > Semantic difference? In this context, negligable. In this case, why > bother saying a Dragaeran is tall at all, if you just mean "tall, > like > all Dragaerans are"? Or "tall, compared to an Easterner" (which is > kind > of like saying a Banana is round... when compared to a dagger) Agreed, in the subsets of Dragaerans, she is tall. Although it seems odd that all 17 houses would average the same height. Are there relatively short houses?