[Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name

[Philip Hart]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Alexx Kay wrote:

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>>
>> Well, there's the translator too.  Maybe Vlad -> Blad -> Blod -> ... ->
>> Myxtlplyx but SKZB went back to the starting point for familiarity a la
>> Tolkien.
>
> In _Phoenix_, Verra strongly implies that Kelly got hold of a Terran book
> about communism, and was able to read it.  There's plenty of wiggle room
> for translators on that side as well, but it's another (weak) data point
> in favor of the languages on Dragaera actually being stable.

This seems pretty strong to me.

Maybe there are some extremely long-lived witches at any given time.  And 
printing presses and dictionaries.  And a lack of large migrations.  And 
...