[Dragaera] First notes on Dzur
Mark A. Mandel
thnidu at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 14 05:37:05 PDT 2006
I'll start by admitting that I haven't read any of the posts that are
already up here about Dzur. That's because I just got my copy yesterday
and just finished it now. And I want to get these notes up here before I
lose them, and I don't know if I'll have the time to read all the other
posts, much as I'd like to.
At p. 17
("Of course."
"Shut up, Loiosh.")
I grabbed a pen and the nearest thing to write on (the box from a new tube
of toothpaste, torn open to use the inside), and I just kept going,
including going back then and every now and then to pick up something I
hadn't had a pen for at the moment I'd seen it.
A => B means "A should be corrected to B"
page.paragraph.line Negative number = counting from bottom. If the first
paragraph on a page began on the previous page, I count it as paragraph 0.
12.~-1 "a stiff" = a solo diner?
17.5.2 leafs => leaves
Most likely a boo-boo. Cf. Brust's comment about "knifes"
(http://www.cracksandshards.com/languages.html#elfs)
19.-2 <jaw drop>uh................</jaw>
23.4.1 Valabar's _Kermeferz_ (Looks Hungarian, but I can't find it.)
35.-1.-4 Devera
39.1 Northwestern tongue = (contemporary) Dragaeran; head-last &
uninflected, which is much like English. Contrast with "Seriolaa",
presumably the Serioli's name for their own language.
44.-5 another tale about the lost finger
44.-5 for visit => for a visit
47 Sethra and Tukko each claim to be older than the other
73.1.1 Tukku => Tukko
108.3.1 Vladamir => Vladimir
199.1-2 loci [plural]: should be locus [singular]?
220.5.-2 differentially => deferentially
-- Mark A. Mandel, proprietor, Cracks and Shards
http://www.cracksandshards.com
a Steven Brust fan website
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