(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: story with Gaiman

[António Pedro Marques]

Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I other words I think:
>
> <Terminus Est> : <Sev's language> :: Latin : English
> <language Thea mentions> : <Sev's language> :: <really ancient language>
> : English

I suppose : means 'is to', :: means 'as' and <> are just paretheses?
If so, it took me a while to figure it out.
I would suggest avoiding >.

> The language Thea mentions is clearly present-day English.  So the
> timeline is like:
>
> <really ancient language> (not mentioned(
> -----
> -----
> <Latin> (not mentioned)
> <English>  (referenced by Thea)
> -----
> -----
> <'Terminus Est' language> (translated to Latin by Gene Wolfe)
> <Severian's language> (translated to English by Gene Wolfe)