[Dragaera] [Dzur Spoilers] On a criticized conversation

[Philip Hart]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote:

> On 8/13/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote:
> >
> > > On 8/13/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > > > The
> > > > water
> > > > is
> > > > wide,
> > > > I
> > > > can
> > > > not
> > > > get
> > > > o'er.
> > > > Nor
> > > > have
> > > > I
> > > > wings
> > > > that
> > > > will
> > > > carry
> > > > me
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I think "your friend Kiera" might be a crack.  Possibly this is like
> > > > my wife saying to me, "Your son just keeps eating and eating", but
> > > > I doubt it.  It's inconsistent with _Orca_ as I understand it.
>
> Ah.  I understand your quibble now, but I think your wife's usage
> points at the emotional context: Cawti is expressing minor irritation
> at Kiera for her theoretical action, presumably in that if Kiera was
> the one who told Vlad, then she (Kiera) would have been performing a
> certain betrayal of information that Cawti would have preferred to be
> confidential.

I think this is too complicated for a live conversation, or too
complicated for me to understand - "your friend" would have to be
in the subjunctive (whatever that means).


> Indeed, I can see Cawti saying to Vlad "your friend Aliera", if/when
> she found out that Aliera had been the one to initiate contact with
> Vlad to help Cawti out with her Jhereg problems.

But that doesn't really help here as far as I can tell.


[snippage even more too complicated for me]