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Ah. I've got you.
Just not sure if it belongs or not, since the meaning is the same either way. |
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It belongs on the webpage I gave, not in this list.
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How about sheets for paper just found it in RoP chapter 7. I think they also call it pressed leaves and/or Benelek's leaves in WD & DS.
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Hmm, I need to reread/research. Aren't sheets and leaves names we used too and didn't the Pernese revert to calling the pulp leaves (?) paper after Aivas told them the name?
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Sheets is used for any type of parchment, it seems:
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Another good quote - I don't have it here, but it's at the beginning of AtWoP when Aivas tells them his printing supply may run out, and paper would be an acceptable substitute. "Paper? Wood-pulp paper?" xxxxxx said in astonishment...
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"Always efficient ones," Master Fandarel replied, ignoring the disparagement. "I can plainly see that every Craft can benefit from the knowledge stored in Aivas. This morning Bendarek was given invaluable advice on how to improve his paper, Aivas called it, and speed up its production. Very simple, but Bendarek immediately saw the possibilities and has gone back to Lemos to develop this much more efficient method. That's why he's not here." |
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Not that it matters, but I believe Brenda meant this one:
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Thanks, that's the one! I find it strange that they would have come up with the same word for a substance that hadn't been used for so long that it was a brand new invention.
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Yeah - considering they have "canines" and "herdbeasts" and "runnerbeasts" and "gossamer spinners", you'd think they'd call it something like "writing wood", or "wood-hide".
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Perhaps it had become a colloqiual term, like hide for anything of that type, which could explain why some characters are more familiar with the term than others, like bread rolls being known as cobs or baps or whatever, depending on where you are in the UK.
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But we never saw them use the word before - it was always hide or sheets. I never saw the word "paper" before the quote I mentioned.
As I was rereading Renegades of Pern, I spotted a few things that I don't believe have been mentioned before. For the record, it's a U.S. Del Rey paperback that was new a few years ago. On page 155 of my copy, just after the attack on Thella's stronghold and the realization that she escaped: Quote:
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Actually, that brings up another one I had forgotten about: nooning = lunch. That's in RoP several times - I don't know the page, but I remember that at the Igen gather Thella buys extra slabs of meat "for my nooning." And it's in the alehold quote above. Okay, last one for now. P. 266 in my copy, when Piemur and Master Robinton are about to go in the strange "hill" that used to be the traffic control and weather tower: Quote:
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Brenda: don't know the page, but I gots references.
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Brenda, great finds! Thank you!
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I wasn't sure about nooning since I've never seen it anywhere else!
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Gobstoppers would be a direct equivalent of sweetballs, even if they're not of the same composition - they still serve the same purpose, that being something sweet that shuts you up until you've chewed your way through it.
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Brenda: actually, Pernese call matches "matches."
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Drate and double drat, there's another MHoP descrepancie
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I wonder whether a "rig" is Pernese for a gelding in earth speak? I'd always assumed it was, but now am not so sure *shrugs*
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Hmm... I was thinking Anne used it the way the Aussies and sometimes Americans do for a truck.
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Gobstoppers are usually hard rather than chewy, so it certainly doesn't seem to be a one-to-one correspondence - but they're an old traditional sweet over here, and one I'd be surprised if Anne wasn't familiar with. As far as this thread goes, you're quite correct that it doesn't really fit as a direct Pernese-English translation, but it IS the closest analogue to a Terran product, in that it's a sweet that can't be consumed quickly, and stops you speaking - hence the name.
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Rig - A male horse or pony who has either one or both testes undescended and retained, ie retained in the abdomen.
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Okay, i found the referrence to paper in D'song though i think Anne may have slipped up there, after all it was 2,500 Turns since the word was used last on Pern.
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Erm.. S'ra, it needs to be the same thing, not a substitute. Something you mention should go into the encyclopedia but not on this list as it simply is not the same thing although both objects serve more or less the same goal. Do you get what I mean?
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This MHoP quote is like the paper question - why would they call them matches? Sulfur stick is a more Pernese-type name - an actual description of the object.
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Mistake? Sloppy is the word tha comes to my mind
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(Farandel is speaking) "... We of the Craft call it agenothree. There is also the black heavy-water that lies on the surface of Igen and Boll. It burns hot and long. ..." Cheeseroom = dairy? (Dragonflight pg 15) Rigid with concentration, Lessa lay in the straw of the redolent cheeseroom she shared as sleeping quarters with the other kitchen drudges. Woodcraftsman = carpenter and joiner? (Dragonquest page 70) Well, the Oldtimers were eager enough to own products of wood, overloading Fandarel's woodcraftsman, Bendarek, with their demands. Hmmm. This is hard. Anne writes so well you just accept the Pernese terms as what things are called. ![]() |
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Thanks, bingley
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Dragonquest, page 35:
'Oh, him' Lessa screwed her fine delicate features into a grimace. 'He's off to Lemos Hold to see how that woodcraftsman of Lord Asgenar's is doing with the wood pulp leaves.' Dragonquest, page 168: A long table dominated the centre of the room, its wide ends deep sand trays, the rest a conglomerate of Record skins, leaves of paper and a variety of bizarre equipment. Dragonquest, page 240: The Smith was delicately tapping out a code, the irregular lengths of red lines appearing on the grey paper as the needle moved. OTOH: Dragonquest page 165 F'lar received F'nor's message, five leaves of notes, just as he was about to set out for the Smithcrafthall to see Fandarel's distance-writing mechanism. Dragonquest pages 318 - 320 What Wansor is holding is referred to as a leaf and as a sheet. So, Pernese terminology seems to be in a state of flux. 'Leaf' or 'sheet' in a non-technical context, but 'paper' in more technical contexts. |
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Or when the author slipped up...
By AtWoP, "paper" seems to be in regular use.
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Brenda, with Anne that is always an almost definite things to reckon with
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As I understand it we're supposed to be looking for things which exist on both Pern and Terra but have different names on each planet. I'm not sure about including 'apprentice'. What else would you call somebody in that sort of relationship, living with an experienced person to learn a craft? Perhaps I read too much fiction or history set in mediaeval times, but it seems perfectly normal English to me, unlike black heavy-water for oil.
I must confess to minimal acquaintance with women's underwear, but I think a breastband is different from a bra. Certainly it goes round the same part of the body but to me it suggests a different shape, used more to cover up breasts or even totally conceal them if the woman is trying to pass as a man, not to support and display them. I've just come across 'necessary' in Dragonsinger, when Mirrim uses the word to Menolly. Is it the standard word, do you suppose, or is it a rather prissy euphemism? What were the sanitary arrangements? Did they have plumbing or was it just basically a hole in the floor? |
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Incidentally, I think 'nooning' is an Irishism. I'm pretty sure I heard it used in Galway.
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P'ter, I can't remember hearing it in Ireland (which, of course. doesn't mean anything) but the online Random House Unabridged Dictionary says: "chiefly inland north" and gives 1425-1475/late Middle Ages as time of 'origin'.
Now what would chiefly inland north desginate? Scotland? Northern England?
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A lot of northern Ireland was inhabited by Scots. (Gaels). That's why they have Gaelic in common (although the Irish Gaelic dialect was known as 'Eiranach' and Scots Gaelic was known as 'Albanach'). This lasted up till late sixteenth century.
So I would take it that "inland north" would designate the area where the Pennines cross the border. Despite the official history of two separate nations divided by Hadrian's Wall (and the other ones) there was a lot of intermarriage and cross fertilisation of culture.
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From "The White Dragon" (page 12 Del Rey edition)
But, if today the Benden Weyr-leaders decided Ruth was strong enough to bear his weight in flight, then Jaxom would be free to fly away from the taunts he'd had to endure from his milkbrother and his cronies. Onelook doesn't recognise milkbrother or milk brother as an English word. If asked I would have said English resorts to a paraphrase like "wet nurse's son". However, a quick google finds it in a few bilingual dictionaries to translate words from languages where the concept is presumably more familiar, and it also appears on Islamic sites since apparently the prophet Mohammad's milk brother was a significant figure. It also comes up in obviously SF or Pern-related sites. Who knows, maybe if it ever makes an English dictionary Anne will be credited with having coined it. Also, page 51 milkmother (= wetnurse) She was Deelan's green and so much in manner like his milkmother that he was reminded of the weyr axiom that a dragon was no better than his rider. Last edited by bingley; Jul 5 2007 at 10:46 AM. Reason: Addition of milkmother reference |
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