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- From: jkiley@andy.bgsu.edu (James H. Kiley)
- Subject: Re: (MUSH) Those Wacky Cross-Gender Impressing Dragons
- Message-ID: <C04wsJ.6zy@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
- References: <1992Dec29.211304.4849@microsoft.com> <1992Dec31.165522.9776@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:33:55 GMT
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- tyrie@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Tyrie Grubic) writes:
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- >thread. Even if Mirrim's name wasn't contracted, if you're yelling something
- >quickly, I assume her name was often slurred to M'rrim during flight, even
- >if it was Mirrim on the ground. Thus to me, as time goes on, it seems likely
- >that female riders of fighting dragons would have adopted the honorific.
-
- ...it occurs to me, actually, that the contractions in names as they're
- set up is frankly wrong. Case in point: Cormic impresses bronze Lironth
- and becomes C'mic. But try shouting the name 'Cormic' sometime. What comes
- out, if you're pronouncing it like I do :), is CORmic. Corm'c or the like
- would be the natural contraction. Mirrim-->MIRrim-->Mir'm, at least if you
- pronounce it like I do.
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