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

[Fernando Gouvea]

The same pun works in Portuguese, and probably in many other languages 
derived from Latin.

Fernando

On 2/19/2011 11:27 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> ---Thea's story, to me, is proof that the language she speaks of is 
> English---although for all I know the same pun exists in other 
> Germanic/Latinate languages, and the only reason the actual word 
> "present" is used is that the book is published in English (the Star 
> Trek rule, in which all languages are presented as English). If that's 
> true, then the answer is not so clear and yet a little less important. 

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