HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pgoujard@infocom.UUCP (Philippe Goujard)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Translations
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:42:16 GMT
Organization: INFOCOM Public Unix Server, +44 [0] 734 340055
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Terry Pratchett (tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
: 
: I met my Dutch translator a few months ago, and he gave me a copy of the DW
: lexicon he's been building up.  He's really into it, and I got a distinct
: impression that he's _good_ at what he does; we spent an hour trading
: colloquialisms.

Are any of your books being / going to be translated in French?
I've searched through Paris and found nothing.


:  His approach is to try and think in Dutch in the same way I
: think in English.

Agreed, I tried "just for fun" to translate the beginning of "diggers" and 
myself juggling with the dictionary and pulling my hairs off when trying to 
translate the puns. After a while what worked best was to read a couple of 
sentences or a paragraph and translate it the way it "felt" it.

Interesting experience anyway.

--
Philippe Goujard <Sysop>                   Email : pgoujard@infocom.UUCP
   Infocom : Public Usenet access in the UK - (0734) 34 00 55
-- 
Philippe Goujard <Sysop>                   Email : pgoujard@infocom.UUCP
       Infocom : Public Usenet access in the UK - (0734) 34 00 55
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: mitchell@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au (Clive Mitchell)
Subject: Paperbacks
Organization: Network Computer Centre
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:47:50 GMT

Can someone please tell me if "Small Gods" and/or "Lords and Ladies"
are out in paperback in the UK and, if they are, the name/address/phone
of a bookstore which handles mailorders?

Thank you.

-- 
    _--_|\    Clive Mitchell               ph: +61 9 4916384
   /      \   Regional Network Systems     mitchell@telecomwa.oz.au
>> *_.--._/   Perth , Western Australia
         v
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Pratchett sighting!
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:05:24 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net

In article <1993Jan4.171229@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>, richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter) writes:
. Ahh, I have heard about this pursuit of Pratchett spotting. Does anyone have
. any tips on where its native habitat can be found as it is fast vanishing 
. from British shores. What equipment should I use? Cameras? Binoculars? 
. Whisks?

Banana daiquiries (sp?), whatever that may be. Go set up a trap.

-Bernard
From: bs@qwerty.Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: dope
Date: 7 Jan 1993 18:09:13 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net

In article <1993Jan7.173234.9345@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mcodogno@nyx.cs.du.edu (Maurizio Codogno) writes:
|> well, even in Italian we say "drogato" for doped in both senses
|> (semiconductor and stoned)... it seems very international.

Well, it doesn't seem to translate well into German, so I'll be able to
keep nattering about those German translations ;-)

-bernard
From: d88leini@odalix.ida.liu.se (Leif Nixon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:19:30 GMT
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden

matoh@lysator.liu.se (Mats \hrman) writes:

>Well, I went home and had a look in my old semiconductor physic books, and
>what semiconductors usually are doped with is boron, arsenic and phosphorous.
>So how about trolls getting high on matches?

>>Otherwise, the kinds of impurities in silicon and germanium that makes it
>>impossible to make semiconducors out of them, are often metals.

>The most common metals that destroys the "semiconductiveness" are
>potassium and sodium.

Alpha particles usually messes semiconductors up. Pitchblend or uranium slate,
maybe?

/Leif Nixon

nixon@lysator.liu.se
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter)
Subject: Re: My tuppence
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:57:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.095448.14165@aston.ac.uk>, Edward Julian Craft <e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk> writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Just to put in my tuppence ( and let anyone who cares know that I'm back
|> from Xmas hols - Santa DID bring me a signed L+L !!! )...

I'm reading L+L en ce moment.
|> 
|> Until recently I was starting to become a little .... bored with the DW
|> series. Pyramids was the start of the downward slide, G!G! and RM I
|> couldn't STAND ! ( Don't bother flaming, this is just my opinion ). They
|> were just getting too smug in their humor.

I think I'd agree though not as strongly. These books were enjoyable to read
and certainly had their moments, but they had certainly lost *something*.
|> 
|> However, I gave the series one last chance with Witches Abroad. Hurrah !
|> Back to the old DW I knew and loved. Enjoyable characters, GOOD stories,
|> well observed relationships between characters, FUNNY jokes. Glad to see
|> L+L is just as good.

Yep, I'd agree here as well. Witches Abroad was a great improvement, Small
Gods almost lost it (but was still funny) and L+L so far is brilliant. The
problem I had with Pyramids, Guards Guards and others was Mr P's 
determination to give us indepth descriptions of mind-blowing concepts
rather than just concentrating on characters and jokes. We don't want to be
lectured in quantum physics (that word again), we just want something to 
laugh at.
|> 
|> Am I alone in this ? 

So you are not alone. I think "I couldn't STAND" was a bit harsh, they were
enjoyable and fun to read (far funnier than anything David Eddings could
write (oh sorry his books weren't funny, they were laughable - let's repeat
an entire series again in another five books and hope nobody notices))  but 
they weren't up to the usual standard.
|> 
|> EJC.

Happy Halibut II

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re:My tuppence
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:07:33 GMT

>|>
>|> Until recently I was starting to become a little .... bored with the DW
>|> series. Pyramids was the start of the downward slide, G!G! and RM I
>|> couldn't STAND ! ( Don't bother flaming, this is just my opinion ). They
>|> were just getting too smug in their humor.
>
>I think I'd agree though not as strongly. These books were enjoyable to read
>and certainly had their moments, but they had certainly lost *something*.
>|>
>|> However, I gave the series one last chance with Witches Abroad. Hurrah !
>|> Back to the old DW I knew and loved. Enjoyable characters, GOOD stories,
>|> well observed relationships between characters, FUNNY jokes. Glad to see
>|> L+L is just as good.
>
>Yep, I'd agree here as well. Witches Abroad was a great improvement, Small
>Gods almost lost it (but was still funny) and L+L so far is brilliant. The
>problem I had with Pyramids, Guards Guards and others was Mr P's
>determination to give us indepth descriptions of mind-blowing concepts
>rather than just concentrating on characters and jokes. We don't want to be
>lectured in quantum physics (that word again), we just want something to
>laugh at.

I am the exact opposite, whether it is because I am a physicist,
or for some other reason I find that Pyramids, etc. are my favourite
books because of "indepth descriptions of mind-blowing concepts"
and if you have ever had to suffer through as many  quantum physics
courses as me, Terry's lctures in quantum physics are the best things
in the books.  I am extremely curious to know just how much physics
Terry has done. I would guess at less 3 years worth at uni, but
I could be wrong.

In my own humble sydney way, Reaper Man is the best yet of all
the DW novels that have I have read so far.


--
**************************************
It takes love over gold
and mind over matter
to do what you do that you must
when the things that you hold
can fall and be shattered
or run through your fingers like dust
**************************************
From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Pratchett sighting!
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:47:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

In article <1993Jan4.171229@cogs.sussex.ac.uk> richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter) writes:

   Ahh, I have heard about this pursuit of Pratchett spotting. Does anyone have
   any tips on where its native habitat can be found as it is fast vanishing 
   from British shores. What equipment should I use? Cameras? Binoculars? 
   Whisks?

Go to a science fiction convention, find a showing of "Alien" or its sequels,
and look for the member of the audience who's annoying everyone by uttering
every bit of dialogue word-perfect a second before the character on screen
utters it.  If you're lucky, you'll have a few seconds to say "hello" before
the Pratchett will be sent flying through the exit door head first.

Or so I heard :-)
--
	-- Chris. 	cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
From: S_MARTIN@IRAV22.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Chicago visit
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:18:52 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: irav22.ira.uka.de
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.25

In <memo.854179@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:

> Possibly.  I'll post details as soon as it's all solid -- but apart from
> Chicago, everything else isn't until the end of 93 or into 94.
> 
> I know the US is a big place, but flying the Atlantic is more of a hassle --
> or to put it another way, getting to Gatwick/Heathrow (allow three or four
> hours) checking in (up to two hours) and flying (six hours plus -- and that's
> only to the east coast) is the hassle.  But I've just discovered that KLM
> offer a nice service from Bristol airport -- at last I might have found a
> gateway to the US!
> 
> Terry

..said the mouse as it entered the Titanic.Never trust an Airline who's
personal is allways grinning,that is,NEVER trust any  Airline.
On the other hand,swimming would be worse,for shure.
As for that gateway,you never know what comes crawling out!(Go ask Eric)
Alas,have some fun,if your fans let you,that is.

Ralf


Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: e: Pratchett sighting! 
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:52:59 GMT

richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter) writes:

>In article <memo.846409@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>|> A good tip. 'Predator' movies are also hunting grounds.
>|> 
>|> I myself saw myself sitting in a parked car in Weston-super-Mare recently,
>|> but I realised that it couldn't be me _because I happened to know I wasn't in
>|> the country at the time_.
>|> 
>|> Terry

>No, that wasn't you. I know it wasn't because I didn't see you. I was in
>Sussex at the time but I have it on good authority that I was also in
>Weston-super-Mare at the same time. Or something.

Well, at the time, I was at a seven-eleven, filling up my car with
petrol, and a UFO landed, and Terry Pratchett got out and told me
to buy a Pollywaffle.

Eccles

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: koerse@fwi.uva.nl (Niels Koerse (student??))
Subject: Re: Chicago visit 
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:49:26 GMT

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

>Possibly.  I'll post details as soon as it's all solid -- but apart from
>Chicago, everything else isn't until the end of 93 or into 94.

>I know the US is a big place, but flying the Atlantic is more of a hassle --
>or to put it another way, getting to Gatwick/Heathrow (allow three or four
>hours) checking in (up to two hours) and flying (six hours plus -- and that's
>only to the east coast) is the hassle.  But I've just discovered that KLM
                                                                       ^^^
 Thats what we Dutch are for, help great writers to go where they want. |
>offer a nice service from Bristol airport -- at last I might have found a
>gateway to the US!

>Terry

Niels

Still waiting for Wiches Abroad, sold out here :(

-- 
****************************** koerse@fwi.uva.nl ******************************
******************************** .sig ** naaah ********************************
From: chris@eso.mc.xerox.com (Chris Heiny)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Pratchett sighting!
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:51:48 GMT
Reply-To: chris@eso.mc.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY


In article 846409@cix.compulink.co.uk, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>I myself saw myself sitting in a parked car in Weston-super-Mare recently,
>but I realised that it couldn't be me _because I happened to know I wasn't in
>the country at the time_.

No, that was Elvis...
From: pooh@brokendrum.stack.urc.tue.nl
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:31:45 GMT
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version


> What immediately springs to mind is coral.  It grows, can be cultivated,
> is sufficiently different from other types of calcium rocks that it 
couldn't
> really be made properly any other way and it's common enough in the 
right
> areas to be of use.  Also it's a pretty colour!

I think this is the best suggestion thusfar. Even though it might not be
scientifically correct.

But maybe the coral only grows near costs of country with a high level of
background radiation, which gives this specific type of coral their 
special
troll-drug capacity.

pooh
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Could the Hedgehog = Spiny Norman?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:35:05 GMT

In <1itnl2INNp7b@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s914431@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Malcolm Herbert) writes:

>Well, I am surprised by everyones reaction, especially Eccles'

*everyone* is surprised by Eccles' reaction . . . 

Tim Pickett.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
Subject: Re: Pratchett sighting!
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:01:32 GMT

richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter) writes:

|Ahh, I have heard about this pursuit of Pratchett spotting. Does anyone have
|any tips on where its native habitat can be found as it is fast vanishing 
|from British shores. What equipment should I use? Cameras? Binoculars? 
|Whisks?

Asbestos gloves, like the Duchess of Quirm and a certain Lady of Ankh.
Also good for net flames.

-- 
Jim Garner B.Math (Newcastle NSW Australia) - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au
From: nealet@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Neale Type)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Colour of Magic
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:04:35 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

Hi.. after reading the graphic novel above, then ending was left rather
open.. so what book carrys on from here.. ??

Neale



-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Neale Type , Computing Service      ///   |  * Current UK Kickoff Champion *
University of Sussex, Falmer    \\\///    |     nealet @ syma.sussex.ac.uk 
England.   BN1 9QH               \X//     |     Tel: +44 273 607418
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Um...release dates
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:23:53 GMT

Was it just a Christmas ploy or did something go strange....

Small Gods and Lords and Ladies being released within 2 months of
each other?

Eccles
From: a_weitz@pavo.concordia.ca (WEITZMAN, ANDREW)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: quantum effects
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:47:00 GMT

about, but is used by the majority of colleges, revenue
bureaus, and other institutions around the world.  The various
things they send out--application responses, tax statements, etc.
--are not actually written at the agency.  Basically, they stuff
blank pieces of paper into all their envelopes.  Once sent to
the target, a Schrodinger effect goes into action;  one doesn't
know what is in the envelope, so the only way to find out is to
observe it.  The result is that the observer determines the news
sent to him.  Of course, given the internal states of most people,
the "letter" is normally not very good.  This explains
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

    B) Modern ennui and high suicide rates

Andrew Weitzman

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Pratchett sighting!
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:01:46 GMT

richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter) writes:

>In article <C0C7x7.yE@brunel.ac.uk>, Andy.Taylor@brunel.ac.uk (Andy J Taylor) writes:

>Ahh, I have heard about this pursuit of Pratchett spotting. Does anyone have
>any tips on where its native habitat can be found as it is fast vanishing 
>from British shores. What equipment should I use? Cameras? Binoculars? 
>Whisks?
Well, I myself have found that using a set of gumboots (wellingtons to
people on the other side of big wet thing) pointing east, into the wind, 
have often helped. Also having a large green thing with a knob on the
end aids in the detection of the Pratchett.
Its native habitat includes bookstores and wrist repairers.

Eccles aka I've read Lords and Ladies, nyah nyah nyah!!!
From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re:I'm baaaaaaaack. . . .
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:57:02 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

>Hi there all.  Just thought I'd mention that the test match in SYDNEY
>yesterday was interrupted *four* *times* by rain. . . .
>
><singing quietly to myself>
>
>Quetzal aka Tim Pickett aka how was Christmas everyone?

At least we have a pitch you can bat on, unless some grounds.

Neil, the jellicle physicist

        "The number you have dialed is imaginary.
                    Rotate phone 90 degrees and try again."

--
**************************************
It takes love over gold
and mind over matter
to do what you do that you must
when the things that you hold
can fall and be shattered
or run through your fingers like dust
**************************************
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter)
Subject: Re: A bit of Trivia
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:31:52 GMT

In article <C0G8FC.2n5@dunaad.co.uk>, dan@dunaad.co.uk (Dan Hunter) writes:
|> 
|> Someone might be interrested to know that Reaper Man was the the Tenth best
|> selling paperback in Britain last year.Of course, this may have been a
|> completely pointless posting but i'm feeling a bit tough today(!!)
|> Anyway I'm  truely deeply sorry to everyone who's lives have now been
|> completely ruined by me being so stupid 
|> 
|> John Smith 
|> -- 
|>           DD      AAAAA   NN     N
|>           D  D   A     A  N N    N
|>           D   D  AAAAAAA  N  N   N
|>           D   D  A     A  N   N  N

Geez, does this guy have a complex or what. 

Happy Halibut X

Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: cancel <1993Jan1.211318.29263@krk.fi>
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:12:55 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of pt@geovision.gvc.com:
:The difference is - I get _paid_ to write in C, I write in perl for my own
:purposes.  So I guess you are right - perl is a religion, C is a vocation.

Then you're doing it wrong.  You should work for a company that pays
you to write perl.  Some of us do.

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist


	"EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor Too Big!" -me
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Libertarians DO care!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 08:58:30 GMT

prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes about libertarianism in 
alt.sex, talk.politics, and alt.activism:

>	-Phil
>-- 
>(--)======================================================================(--)
> ||                                                                        ||
> ||  As evey cell in Chile will tell / The cries of the tortured men       ||
> ||  Remember Allende in the days before / Before the army came            ||
> ||  Please remember Victor Jarra / In the Santiago Stadium / Es verdad    ||
> ||              Those Washington Bullets Again!      --The Clash          ||
> ||                                                                        ||
>(--)== prs9k@virginia.edu === Phil Scarr === Department of Neurosurgery ==(--)

Is that a scroll I see? Why, oh why, is the writing surface as wide as the
handles/rollers on the ends? Why is there writing right on the edge of the
paper (parchment?), half on and half off the scroll? Why ask why? Try Bud
Dr...sorry, lost it for a moment. Why does Phil have to...oh forget it!

Bah.  <--- (not tm'd)

                                                               _         __
        \ Simon Fraser Univ. / SFU does not admit to having | | >| | ^  |
--       \ Burnaby, B.C.    / opinions of its own; any that | |< | |/-\ |-
Keith Lim \ V5A 1S6 Canada / are found above are mine only  | |_>|_|| | |
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: frankj@ifi.uio.no (Frank Tore Johansen)
Subject: [rec.games.design] Re: Writing CRPGs
Reply-To: frankj@ifi.uio.no
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:04:25 GMT
Originator: frankj@yrsa.ifi.uio.no


In article <1993Jan11.183347.8380@choate.edu>, soth@spock.uucp (Samid Hoda) writes:
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /       soth@choate.edu                                                    /
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/
> -  _     _     __    __      _______       ____    __    _______  _    _  -/
> - /_/   /_/\  /__/\ /__/\    \  *  /      /___/|  /_/\  /______/ /_/  /_/ -/
> - | |  / _\/| | ||| | _\/|    \ | /      / ___|/ / _\/| |_____|/ |||__||| -/
> - | |_ || | | |--|/ || | |  \  \_/       |_|__/| || | |   | ||   ||/__||| -/
> - | |_/||_|/  ||\\ \||_|/ -+|========>   /__\ || ||_|/    | ||   ||---||| -/
> - \___|\__/   ||/\\/|__/    /            |____|/ \__/     |_|/   ||/  ||/ -/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/

What a beauty!  I'm speechless!
That ascii font should enter the hall of fame! 

*NOT*

-Frank.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: manson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob Manson)
Subject: Re: more depression
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:04:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.155925.29633@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>ok, termcaps ready!?

It is far better to uuencode your favorite large kernel image and send that
instead.
							Bob
manson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord