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From: fis@evil.demon.co.uk (fis)
Subject: W
X-BBS-Msg-Type: E
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:25:36 +0000


Someone recently commented on the lack of my messages in this conference.

Well now I am her and you only have yourself to blame.

NEVER EVER SAY YOUR GLAD FIS ISN'T SOMEWHERE BECAUSE I'LL HARASS YOU.
From: hs0sagg@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Simon Granville)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Buckinghamshire School ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:26:17 GMT
Organization: School of Social Sciences, University of Bath, UK

I ahve just been skimming through some old articles and found one hich said
TP went to a chool in Buckingham and I was wondering if anyone knew which
one it was.  I am simply interested because I also ent to school in Bucking
for a while.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Toodle pip,          

Simon
From: sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:57:18 GMT

winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:

>Yes.  When I read it, I thought that parodying both King Cong and Attack of
>the 50-Foot Woman in one gag was a masterstroke.

You forgot Tarzan, in that very same stroke. It was Tarzan spoof
colliding with the 50-Foot Woman gag than suddenly turned into the King
Kong parody. One of the best parts of the book for me.
-- 
Sander Plomp                                        Internet: sander@cwi.nl
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:18:49 GMT

dug@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dug Smith) writes:

>>may have something to do with it.  ("he's buggered off!" "he's scarkered!"
>>(scarkered?  whatever that is...))

>  ^^^^^^^^^ scarpered - run away, made a run for it, that sort of thing. :-)

Lets go and have a cup of tea.

Three headed giant...MP et Holy Grail.

Eccles
From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: porcupine =?= hedgehog
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:26:04 GMT

In <12536@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Paul James <prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk> writes:

>In <12532@ecs.soton.ac.uk> ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ) writes:

>>In <1992Aug12.175127.6510@rdg.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:


>>>In article <19681@plains.NoDak.edu>,
>>>hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>>>|>
>>>|>This American TP fan knew that porcupines and hedgehogs were quilly creatures
>>>|>before reading his first DW book, but usually forgets whether they are the
>>>|>same or just similar species.

>>>They're quite different.  The only similarity is that both are mammals
>>>with spines.

>>Er - I'm a mammal, and I have a spine. I'd rather not be buggered, but
>>that still doesn't make me a hedgehog. :-)

>>Porcupines have quills. I don't think that hedgehog prickles are quills
>>- they're much softer, less sharp, and aren't shed. Their main use is to
>>deterr attackers rather than to hurt them, and for cushioning falls (try
>>dropping a hedgehog - they bounce.)
>> 
>>Andy

>I may be wrong, but aren't hedgehogs much smaller than porcupines?

That too - they're about croquet ball size when curled up - maybe a little
bigger. It may be quite fun to try juggling them, but catching three can be
hard - they're speedy little buggers.

Andy


-- 
Andy Lewis  (ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
From: ndd@bal1 (Ned Danieley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:00:48 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
: 
: > Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
: > used all the Twin Peaks gags...)
: 

oh, no! does this mean I'll have to start looking for videos of
Twin Peaks?

--
Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710   (919) 660-5111 or 660-5100
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: TP, can we call you something else???
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:05:06 GMT
Organization: University of Washington


The letters "TP" I always read as "toilet paper" first.  All my life that's
what my family called it.  Probably just my own quirk, but it bugs me just
the same.  

Perhaps if we knew your middle initial(s)???  ;>
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Bugger off
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:07:23 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <BsvC92.Fqp@ibmpcug.co.uk> dbergin@ibmpcug.co.uk (Derek Bergin) writes:
<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.

<bigots think it should.  They therefore prosecute in the criminal courts - 
<a privilage not restricted to the government.  This is normally followed

With what possible results? In the US the principle possible results
of a criminal prosecution are innocent, but poorer, or guilty and
poorer and probably caged some more. Does a private criminal prosecution
have the same affect in the UK as a governmental criminal prosecution?

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"This dream is brought to you by Sharassin of Shan. Dreams and
communication wizardry of all sorts at reasonable rates."  --  Sharassin of Shan
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?                            
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:15:34 GMT


In article <1992Aug12.174934.11886@ctr.columbia.edu>,
daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:

[regarding the derivation of "bloody"]
|>
|>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.

And "zounds" which is worn down from "His wounds", referring to the stigmata
of Christ on the Cross.

--PSW
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)
Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 1992 09:59:13 CET
From: <IBRUNTON@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
 <1992Aug11.161542.15589@col.hp.com> <1992Aug11.234157.29674@samba.oit.unc.edu>
 <1992Aug12.172257.5572@rdg.dec.com> <1992Aug12.174934.11886@ctr.columbia.edu>

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

 'Bloody', I was taught at junior school, is a corruption of 'By Our
Lady'.

 T.H. White's 'Sword in the Stone', (people think that it's a
children's book), has Merlin speaking with much 'By Our Lady this
and By Our Lady that' when annoyed.

 Seriously White's Sword in the Stone is one of the best. A book to
lift your spirit, and the story ends before if turns into a tradgedy.

 Terry - yes you with the talent - isn't it time that Arthurian Legend
came in for the DW treatment?

Cheers,

IAn Brunton.    <><

ibrunton@estec.estec.esa.nl
IBRUNTON@ESTEC.BITNET
NLESADGL at IBMMAIL
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ibrunton@bcserver.estec.esa.nl
From: gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:03:39 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.

In article <memo.572335@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>
>Picking up on language usuage:
>
>It's interesting to see that 'scarper' did make it to the States.  No reason
>why is shouldn't -- it's not a English word as such, but part of the
>actors/showmans/thieves slang that owes quite a lot to Italian.
>
>Terry

very good Terry, the Concise Oxford Dictionary has:

scarper	v.intr Br. Sl. run away; escape.
	[prob fr. Italian 'scappare' escape, infl. by rhyming sl.
         'Scapa Flow' = go]

so now we know.

Gordon.
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Twin Peaks                              
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:13:51 +0000

When I saw (bits of) Twin Peaks on television I thought it was pretentious
garbage.  Now I've read some scripts and stuff I've changed my mind -- there
were some good lines there.   I still thing it's garbage, but beautifully
cooked.  Men At Arms is not 'the Twin Peaks gags' DW book -- I just want
certain lines and situations to, er, resonate a little.

Terry
From: spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Djelibeybi..
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:55:13 GMT
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Live Organ Transplants

In article <memo.573795@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>FABRICATI DIEM, PVNK: and before anyone out there says 'no such verb' -- I
>KNOW.  I had to keep defending it from a proof reader at Gollancz who kept
>trying to correct my dog Latin! Illegitimo nil carborundum.
>
>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
>called Emmenemms, or Hersheba...hmm, Hersheba...could USE that, yes, little
>country near Ephebe...
>
>Off to Sweden.

ok, so now that we know how to pronounce Djelibeybi (I did figure it out
first time I read the book, really), how are you pronouncing Ephebe?
(There doesn't seem to be any hidden joke in that, but one can never be
too safe :-) )

----------- The opinions expressed in this article are solely mine. -----------
<Insert lame attempt at disclaimer humor>
sss/PU'94 Dept of CS (spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu)/JvNCnet (spencer@jvnc.net)
"There comes a time in the history of every project when it becomes
necessary to shoot the engineers and start production."
From: hs0sagg@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Simon Granville)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: explaining things
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:59:12 GMT
Organization: School of Social Sciences, University of Bath, UK

>>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 ...
>
>That's one I'd like to know, two. I was always reminded by it of a (Ger-
>man) Jewish name translated into English. (Like Onestone.) Yet I defi-
>nitely thought of the Counterweight Continent as the Far East. I'm re-
>minded of Twoflower any time I see a Japanese tourist. Somehow this
>doesn't fit.
>
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.

Simon.
-- 
Toodle pip,          

Simon   	
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From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4  
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:01:52 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

witbrock@otago.ac.nz writes:
> I wonder whether the US folks understood about insewerants?
> 
??? sure, why wouldn't we ????
-- 
Laura Johnson
lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Swedish weather
Date: 15 Aug 92 18:24:18 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Aug14.175921.28215@aber.ac.uk> ans0@aber.ac.uk (Austin Newton Shackles) writes:
< hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
<>Why does this require a net.query? In Fargo, ND we get, but do not
<>necessarily appreciate, weather reports for all over
<>the US, sometimes the planet. We usually get reports for Minneapolis-
<>...
<
<you sad person...
<
<personally i thought, even though it might have been a serious question, that 
<it was very funny...
<
<why does everyone have to take everything so damn' seriously all the time?

'Twasn't funny. I suppose it's possible that someone somewhere might have
thought it was funny. To suggest that the Great One might have thought it
was funny strikes me as blasphemey. Don't worry; I'm out of lighter fluid.

If you want to see the results of everyone taking everything so damn'
seriously all the time read the Piers Anthony newsgroup.

Since delusionary humor is not a major felony, let's do to this for a lark
what cannot be done to a hedgehog.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"This dream is brought to you by Sharassin of Shan. Dreams and
communication wizardry of all sorts at reasonable rates."  --  Sharassin of Shan
From: pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: city blocks? (was Re: GO: Error or Joke (and whose?))
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:01:41 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

In article <1992Aug13.152811.15231@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( ) writes:
}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

}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."  

This is why we feel that we're allowed to gloat over getting Terry's books
eons before you colonials.  There's no sign of either of the Powers' you 
mention over here as yet - last one I saw (& bought - I agree with the
recommendation) was On Stranger Tides.  The Skies Discrowned and Epitaph
In Rust I've never seen over this side of The Pond either.

Ho hum

Paul

-- 
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
                                            --  Charlie Brown
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: jan_b@lysator.liu.se (Jan Besehanic)
Subject: Re: explaining things
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:58:36 GMT

witbrock@otago.ac.nz writes:

>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.

The names remind me somewhat of Mah Jong pieces, although I'm not
too sure about it. 

Just my .02 ECUs worth... (Chocolate Coins)


>-- 
>Ann Witbrock                       |   o/                   \{o}
>witbrock@otago.ac.nz               |  /X \o/  ==========>>>   Y\
>(New Zealand, southern hemisphere) |   H  H                   H
>                     (if it doesn't work for you, use your imagination)
--
Jan Besehanic
email: jan_b@lysator.liu.se
New, improved .sig-file under construction.
From: rizzoe@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Emily Rizzo)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Witches Abroad queries
Date: 18 Aug 92 11:48:12 GMT
Organization: New York University

I've been reading the British hardcover edition of "Witches Abroad" --
all page references below are to that edition:
1) On page 134 Nanny Ogg says: "Not a Ronald in sight, look."  Does the 
   rhyming slang refered to in the footnote about Ronald the Third rhyme 
   on "third" rather than "Ronald"?  That is to say, is Nanny Ogg talking
   about turds?
2) On page 79 there are various uses of a glyph which looks like a lower case
   "f" with the right half of the crossbar omitted:  diforders, sicknefs and
   cheft (all the "f"s here represent this strange glyph).  I haven't found
   this glyph elsewhere in the book.  What is this strange character (which
   I guess is somehow related to German sharp S)?  and what is the point of
   it's appearance in this one section of the book?
3) What is the point of the stars which appear over various random (as far as
   I can see) page numbers throughout the book (for example, 82, 111, 184)?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
Subject: Men at Arms (was: Any Recorded TP Books?)
Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:41:51 GMT

In article <leo.714319738@galaxy>, leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
> 
>> Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
>> used all the Twin Peaks gags...)
> 
> Oh Lord, please let him finish this book *quickly*. 
> 
> Twin Peaks gags -- yes, yes, YES!

Oh s**t. When it was on the TV here I preferred reading TP instead of
watching TP... Now I'll have to get video tapes somewhere :-)
						Michal
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: Bugger off
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:23:22 GMT

spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:

>In article <1992Aug12.135121.29686@crc.ac.uk>, msmith@crc.ac.uk (Mike Smith x3297) writes:
>>
>>Isn't it strange how many verbs mean exactly the same thing if you say 'off'
>>after them.

>let's not forget "piss off" :-)

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

Sod off??? Seems to get past the censors everywhere I've heard it.
That makes no sense at all really does it? Lets try again.

Try Blackadder.

CAFFIENE!!
Eccles
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: GO: Error or Joke (and whose?)
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:34:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Terry Pratchett (tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
: 
: 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
: Wings came under the ye of my American copy-editor, I got a message 'Do the
: Brits know what coleslaw is?' Oh, deary deary me...

Yes, but so much of The Anubis Gates was made up of anachronisms that it
slipped past most readers -- certainly I didn't notice it!

(best scene - where the protagonist hears someone whistling ``Yesterday'').
Awesome. 
: 
: Terry
pete
--
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Subject: Re: Bugger off
From: witbrock@otago.ac.nz
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:51:22 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In article <1992Aug12.135121.29686@crc.ac.uk>, msmith@crc.ac.uk (Mike Smith x3297) writes:
> In article <1992Aug11.190906.19435@col.hp.com>, lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:
>> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>> > 
>> > Neither "bug off" nor "bugger off" makes much sense to me as an emphatic
>> > form of "depart". Perhaps "bug off" means "find your home rock and crawl
>> > back under it", but I don't think so.
>> > 
>> 
>> On the other hand, each makes about as much sense as "fuck off" which
>> is quite frequently heard in the US (and means the same as the other
>> two).
>> 
>> Laura Johnson
>> lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
> 
> Isn't it strange how many verbs mean exactly the same thing if you say 'off'
> after them.

Except that "bugger off" can be used with almost no emphasis in the first
person, as in, "Gosh I'm buggered; I think I'll just bugger off home now".

So in the first case its like "shagged" (and for the use of "shagged", 
prince someone got dragged over the coals), and in the second, 
its roughly equivalent to "mosey", which probably is colloquial kiwi 
for all I know, but might equally be substituted idiomatically for 
"piss off", but simply means "wander off to".


On an aside, the US version isn't illegal here, but the british version
still is, but is apparently popular in farm country (so the rumours go)
 ... unless the meanings have changed again ;-)


Ann (adding a little cultural diversity from the antipathies*).

* Lewis Carroll refers to NZ and also Australia as "the antipathies" in
Alices adventures in wonderland.
-- 
Ann Witbrock                       |   o/                   \{o}
witbrock@otago.ac.nz               |  /X \o/  ==========>>>   Y\
(New Zealand, southern hemisphere) |   H  H                   H
                     (if it doesn't work for you, use your imagination)
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 23:56:43 GMT

In article <37120@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton) writes:
>which always struck me as weird, cos I used to live there
>and Kilimanjaro does have two peaks, Kibo and Mawenzi ...

KIBO? AKA James Parry?
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
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Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
From: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (tony)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Confused
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:44:52 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, UKC


> ANGUS DAVIDSON writes:

   Can some out there please explain to me the meaning behind 'Reflected 
   sound...' as this is about the only phrase in Color of Magic that I could 
   not work out, and it is bugging me no end.

This is actually explained in the book, but the quote goes
(from memory)

        Reflected sound of underground spirits

which translates out of the Morporkian to

        echo-gnomics

(yes, say it out loud).  Related to innsewerants of course.


tony