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From: spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: GO: Error or Joke (and whose?)
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:14:48 GMT
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Live Organ Transplants

In article <1274/278a@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca>, jonathan@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca (Jonathan Story) writes:
>*** Note: Spoiler ahead for those who haven't read Good Omens ***
>
>
>
>I was thumbing through _Good_Omens_, Corgi edition, the other day and
>noticed something curious.  When the discorporated Aziraphale joins
>Madame Tracy's seance, his first words are:
>    Sprechen sie Deutsche?
>    Parlez-vous francais?
>    Wo bu hui jiang zhongwen?
>
>    Unlike the first two, the third query does *NOT* mean "do you speak
>Chinese?"  According to my rusty Mandarin, this 'query' (regardless of the
>trailing question mark) is not a question, but a statement, meaning: "I
>don't know [how to] teach Chinese."  [For the curious, an acceptable
>alternative might be:  Ni hui bu hui shuo zhongwen?]

I haven't read the book, but what the Chinese sentence there actually
says is "I can't speak Chinese."  And you're right, it doesn't quite
work as a question (you could make it sound like one, under contrived
circumstances perhaps :-) )

The 'alternative' sentence you give actually would mean "Can you say
Chinese" which isn't quite the same thing as "Do you speak Chinese"

The way I would say it, off hand, is:

Ni hui bu hui jiang zhongwen?

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the same"  [Styx, "The Grand Illusion"]
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The name...
Date: 12 Aug 1992 16:39:16 GMT
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In article <memo.562279@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
> And became seven in the Corgi edition. No-one
> knows why.
[...]
> Occult explanations cheerfully received.

Quite ease, that one.
Really.
Have you *read* Good Omens ?

Oops- Oh, all right, but so whaddayamean you wrote it..

-Bernard
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: explaining things
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:34:26 GMT

In article <RSHOLMES.92Aug19145026@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>Uh, those all look to be Chinese names to me. Some Japanese names:
>Hidekei Yukawa, Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Hidikazu Uehara. Not
>exactly monosyllabic, eh?

>(I may not have have spelled them quite right).

Uh, no, not unless you have a Unicode terminal... :->
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From: davep@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Polaschek)
Subject: Jelly Babies (was Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4)  
Followup-To: alt.fan.pratchett
Keywords: jelly-babies Djelibeybi
Reply-To: davep@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Polaschek)
Organization: LaserMaster Corp
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 20:27:45 GMT

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

> And you'd better add: say Djelibeybi OUT LOUD -- I must have had twenty
>letters (and one or two emails) from people who didn't twig until the third
>time round...oh god... do they have them in the US?  Should it have been

You can get Jelly Babies in the US, but you have to buy them at fancy yuppie 
candy boutiques.  They're pretty expensive, and for a while, there were 
official Dr. Who Jelly Babies (while Tom Baker was playing The Doctor).  Many 
people understand about them, though.

Dave Polaschek            Internet:davep@county.lmt.mn.org
LaserMaster Corp. R&D              ICBMNet:44^59'N 93^13'W
7156 Shady Oak Road                     AppleLink:LASERMAX
Eden Prairie, MN 55344                   ATTNet:6129439204
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: explaining things
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:31:59 GMT

In article <Bt4qK0.4vK@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:
>I guess like Duckburg, Ankh-Morpork doesn't refer to any real city.

Rome. Late Renaissance when things were falling apart again.
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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?                  
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:19:37 GMT

In article <memo.584154@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>Transworld have bought the recorded book rights to all the DW books and I'm
>hoping to see the first ones early next year.  You heard it hear first,
>folks. They've got the Truckers trilogy, too.

And will this hit the US in any finite time?

>I sometimes to readings at cons, but only of unpublished stuff or
>work-in-progress.  If I do any later this year it's likely to be from Johnny
>and the Dead or possibly Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
>used all the Twin Peaks gags...)

Twin Peaks? Frotz... I'm going to have to do some homework on that. 

Men at Arms? Is that the _Guards! Guards!_ sequal? Or does it just sound
like it ought to be? :-)

--EM


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From: dbergin@ibmpcug.co.uk (Derek Bergin)
Subject: Re: Bugger off
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:36:37 GMT

In article <19658@plains.NoDak.edu> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>
>court case. The case was a "private prosecution" [translation please]
>about buggery in a live theater performance.
>

Normally brought by the 'National Viewers and Listeners Association' - the
UK version of the Moral Majority.  It happens when the *moderately normal*
authorities don't think something should be banned and the narrow minded
bigots think it should.  They therefore prosecute in the criminal courts - 
a privilage not restricted to the government.  This is normally followed
by howls of outrage from the liberals and much slagging off in the tabloid
press.  Most of the population with an IQ at least equal to their age just
yawn and turn to the next page.
-- 
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From: mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( )
Subject: Re: city blocks? (was Re: GO: Error or Joke (and whose?))
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:28:11 GMT

In article <4496@news.duke.edu> ndd@bal1 (Ned Danieley) writes:
>tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>: Just an aside...I remember putting down The Anubis Gates after Powers had a
>: character referring to 'city blocks' in early 19th Century London...and when
>: Terry

>uh, weren't there city blocks in 19th cent. London? I've certainly
>gotten the impression that it wasn't laid out on a square grid,
>but does that preclude having 'blocks'?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that London streets were based on little
more than cow paths.  Modern straight roads involves simply whacking a clear
path through a rat's warren of smaller streets.

On that aside, Powers' stuff is really good too.  Certainly not humorous, but
very gripping and powerful fantasy.  (His later books take place closer to
home, and so he avoids gaffes like the one above.  Check out "The Stress of
her Regard" and his newest, "Last Call."  Difficult to put down; unfortunately,
they're long enough that you eventually *have* to put them down.

Michael "Hand me that hedgehog" Lucas
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From: oneill@cix.compulink.co.uk (James O'Neill)
Subject: TP in Vancouver.
Reply-To: oneill@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:15:52 +0000

My brother is at Simon Fraser university in Vancouver and has been
buying TP books from somewhere while has been out there.

SFU has another representative in this area so I assume you can buy
the books there somewhere.
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Suns faster than the speed of light
Date: 12 Aug 1992 16:18:52 GMT
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Keywords: sun discworld celestial bodies stars light speed vampires sprouts

In article <1992Aug4.011748.29194@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
> There are in fact a 
> number of suns orbiting the discworld and thus they do not have to move 
> as quickly in order to provide the normal day-night effects.

BTW Do the suns / moons / stars move around the disc (underneath) between the
disc and the tutle's surface or even underneath the turtle ?

And who feeds those elephants and the turtle, anyway ?

-Bernard
P.S. I wish there was a bookshop in these parts of the world selling
untranslated BE books. Honestly - some things just don't translate.
Anybody out there got any idea how they translated JCB into German ?
/* shudder(); */ -bs-
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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: "Geek" (Was: Re: Culcha? Moi?)
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:00:06 GMT


Oh, fine, you people asked for it (well, really only one person....).

From _Fer Shurr! How to be a Valley Girl -- Totally!_, by Mary Corey and
Victoria Westermark, (c) 1982, pub Bantam books....

First chapter, "A to Z glossary of Valspeak":
(No page numbers, sorry.)
"Aqua Velva geek: n. extremely distasteful male individual, often a
self-styled 'swinger'; a condominium dweller, recognizable by gold neck
chains, exposed chest hair, discount toupee, leisure suit (polyester),
black zipper boots. Syn. slimeball, nerd. 'Ohmigod, Stacy, OK, like this
totally skanky *Aqua Velva geek* tried to pick me up, like he goes, "Hey
babe, let's take a walk on the wild side, and like I go, Gag me with a
spoon, slimeball!""
[Seem to have lost a ' somewhere....]

I rather doubt that there are any of those on a.f.p -- at least, no
recognizable ones. 

--EM, with too much time on her hands....
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Swedish weather
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:00:06 +0000

In article <19705@plains.NoDak.edu> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:

>According to Janet Fielding Londoners have 37 words for gray.

According to Terry Pratchett, the Kung had forty-two different words
for rain, but that just wasn't enough ...

Nick Leverton
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From: f1rima@uta.fi (Riku M{kinen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Hedgehogs
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:29:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

I just read from the paper that some misfits have painted hedgehogs with
oil-based paint (that burns the skin) in the Finnish westcoast. The police is 
working on it, hope they get caught.

For some time ago I asked what are you people like. I got some answers and
somebody came up with the idea of making some kind of statistics. I must 
admit I'm too busy (read: lazy) to do that, but if somebody likes the idea,
why not do it (in the industrial economics class I had last year I vaguely
remember hearing something about delegating things, I'm afraid I didn't get
a hang of that). 

Hejsan.

  

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From: daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?                            
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:49:34 GMT
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In article <1992Aug12.172257.5572@rdg.dec.com>, winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Aug11.234157.29674@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
> Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
> |>
> |>Same for "bloody" (which I gather is equivalent to "damn"?)
> 
> "Bloody" derives from "Blood of Christ", I believe.
> 
> --PSW

Actually from "s'blood" which is a common Elizabethen contraction of the
oath "God's blood". This is the same etymology as "struth" which is
properly written "s'truth" and is a contraction of "God's truth". Both
are to be found in several Shakespeare plays and in those of his
contemporaries.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: m_cole@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (M Cole)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP again...
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:06:16 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

In article <memo.581558@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>I've just noticed all the weird spellings in my posting yesterday (when I was
>just back from Sweden).  Sorry, folks...to paraphrase the old drink/drive
>warning: don't ask a man to stay up late, fly, drive, read a stack of mail
>AND be 100% coherent afterwards.
>
>And also a glitch in the OLR program here means that a few messages and maybe
>one or two mail messages have gone into a black hole.  If anyone reading this
>sent me sane(ish) mail in the last few days and doesn't get a reply, this is
>why...
>
>Since I'm on...there's no joke in Twoflower.  I just wanted a coherent way of
>making up 'foreign' names and I think I pinched the Mayan construction (Nine
>Turning Mirrors, Three Rabbits, etc).

Or 'One Man Bucket' perhaps.....

>
>Terry
From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:44:02 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:

>What are Twin Peaks gags??

Well that's one for a start........

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From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:11:17 GMT

In <memo.584154@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

[stuff]

>and the Dead or possibly Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
>used all the Twin Peaks gags...)

Does this mean that for full enjoyment I'll have to watch Twin Peaks before
reading it? :-(
Or maybe when the time comes you could recommend selected episodes that
most of said gags refer to... :-)

Andy


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From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:22:57 GMT
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH


In article <1992Aug11.234157.29674@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
|>
|>Same for "bloody" (which I gather is equivalent to "damn"?)

"Bloody" derives from "Blood of Christ", I believe.

--PSW
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: explaining things
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:07:09 GMT
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH


In article <1992Aug19.115912.15755@gdt.bath.ac.uk>,
hs0sagg@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Simon Granville) writes:

|>Well we must remember a few things about Twoflower (and the CWghtCont) and
|>compare them to Japan.  We all perceive Japan as very rich (i.e. made of
|>gold), JApanese names are always portrayed in some form of monosyllablic
|>version (unlike Si-mon, things like Cho, Hsu, Lao etc), Japanese tourists
|>are (in)famous for their camneras and their general inability to speak
|>English (of course we are no better, I could probably count the number of
|>Japanese speaking English people on my hands) and finally TwoFlower was
|>given a very oriental look in comics.  So I agree that their may be some
|>correlation between TwoFlower and Japan.

The other group that might fit the bill are Americans.  Your prototypical
American tourist in continental Europe in the 1950s had all the same
characteristics (except for the monosyllabic names, which is actually more
Chinese than Japanese anyway).  We do have one other fact about Twoflower,
however:  his home land is ruled by a Vizier on behalf of a child emperor.
That fits Japan better than it fits the U.S. (although not if we somehow end
up with Dan Quayle as president).

--PSW
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From: barretpj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett)
Subject: Re: alt.fan.pratchett FAQ
Organization: Aston University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:39:05 GMT

"Digital Dreams" is 'the first-ever all-British anthology of computer stories.
SF & Fantasy & Horror & History & Mystery & Murder & Spoof from Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman Diana Wynne Jones Storm Constantine Garry Kilworth Keith Roberts
plus 14 more of today's brightest talents' ... or so the back cover says.

UK paperback edition, ISBN 0-450-53150-3, New English Library

Edited by David V Barrett (who just happens to be my uncle).

TP's story is called '# ifdefDEBUG + "world/enough" + "time"' (honest!)
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From: adrian@robots.ox.ac.uk (Adrian Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Bugger off
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:08:11 GMT
	<1992Aug12.135121.29686@crc.ac.uk>
	<1992Aug12.170439.27642@Princeton.EDU>
	<ins450m.713769802@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
	<Bt4Lvy.1tF@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Oxford University
In-reply-to: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de's message of 17 Aug 92 11:43:09 GMT

In article <Bt4Lvy.1tF@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

   >I guess that gets placed somewhere between "bugger" and "f---" on the
   >offensiveness scale..

   Erm, just how offensive is bugger anyway? I once used it in a letter to
   a distinguished friend, and I'd like to know whether to take a new
   identity or not is necessary now. That's the problem when you got your
   English from a lot of comics, DNA and TP books.

Where I come from, `bugger' is one of the minor swear words which can
be used in front of granny.  It is used as a verb and as a noun:
verb) That's buggered it.
noun) It's raining!  The poor bugger'll get wet!

Whether granny ever knew what `bugger' meant is uncertain.

Someone I know is planning to get a `straight as buggery' t-shirt
because he doesn't feel that `queer as fuck' suits him.  The reactions
should be interesting.

- Adrian@robots.ox.ac.uk
From: witbrock@otago.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: explaining things
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:49:51 GMT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In article <36839@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton) writes:
> While people are in the happy explaining mood, what is the
> significance of the name Twoflower ? His old boss was Ninereeds
> : do all those from the Counterweight continent have names of
> number:plant_thing ? I read TCOM and TLF yonks ago, and I'm sure
> (to the point of slight paranioa) that Twoflower is a joke on
> something ...
> 
I may be wrong, but I suspect he probably knows a Fourwinds too.
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:21:03 +0000

As already noted, "Strata" is so deeply inspired by Larry Niven's two
Ringworld books that it's pointless going into every correspondence.

However there's one bit in "Strata" which I'm sure is not from
Ringworld, and probably not from Niven at all.

[Probable spoiler follows]


















[Just for those with 50-line screens :-)]
























On p.172 of the UK Corgi edition, when Kin Arad is exploring the
Discworld control centre, she comes across a maintenance robot. She
damages this robot and waits until another machine turns up to repair
it. She damages this second machine and waits for a third one to arrive.
The third one is "a tank-like machine ...".

This creates a strong echo in my memory but, as I say, I'm sure it isn't
from Ringworld. It sounds more like Harrison. Does anyone know where the
reference does come from ?

Nick Leverton.
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From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:13:55 GMT

In article <19729@plains.NoDak.edu> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
(Michael J. Hennebry) writes:

>I Know one exclamation mark isn't enough to impress this crowd. Maybe I
>should have capitalized it.

How do you capitalize an exclamation mark?

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Vampies [possible spoiler for Witches Abroad]
From: richard@nacjack.gen.nz (Richard Vowles)
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:51:43 GMT
Organization: Malleus Maleficarum - Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre


Terry,

The vampire that died in Witches Abroad thru Greebo's mistake (as it were),
is that the same vampire that gave Count Notsoferatu (in Reaperman) his
'inheritance'?

Hex

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