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

[David Stockhoff]

aha!

On 2/19/2011 1:11 PM, Fernando Gouvea wrote:
> 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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