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- From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
- Subject: Re: Annotation: inconsistencies
- Message-ID: <RSHOLMES.92Dec23100947@rodan.syr.EDU>
- In-reply-to: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:30:43 +0000
- Organization: Syracuse University
- References: <724995043snx@warren.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:25:21 EST
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- In article <724995043snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
-
- >A masterly analysis, Rich, and I have only one quibble:
- >>given that the only month-names used appear to be the English ones.
- >
- >"Grune" seems to be the name of the month in which "Guards! Guards!"
- >takes place: Carrot reads out all the charges in the form "On or about
- >18th Grune you did ..."
-
- Yes, well, that's where my thesis falls to the ground. Or I assume it
- does... I don't have G!G! at hand to verify.
-
- OK, who's got all the DW novels on disk and can grep for all
- references to months? (I know *one* of you guys does... :-) )
-
- (Maybe Grune is the 32-day month left over when the rest of the year
- is partitioned into 64-day months?)
-
- (Maybe it's the dwarvish name for February?)
-
- (Maybe Carrot thinks "J" is pronounced "Gr"?)
-
- --
- - Rich Holmes
- "Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of
- accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave
- like this." -- Douglas Adams
-