(urth) Short Sun Notes: Chems

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri Dec 14 14:49:02 PST 2012



On 12/14/2012 5:45 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote:
>> On 12/3/2012 5:10 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
>>>>> If Cijfer is a chem her husband, Wijzer, must be as well. In the light
>>>>> of this it may be significant that in the final battle he killed five
>>>>> inhumi, ?twice strangling one with each hand?.
>> How are those names pronounced: Cypher? Wiser? That might be suggestive too.
> That's about it, I think, though the 'i' sound isn't precisely the
> same as an English one. 'Cijfer', it seems,  means 'digit' (as in 1,
> 2, 3...) and 'Wijzer' means 'pointing device', and can include a clock
> hand or a compass needle. While this is not an improbable name for a
> sea-captain, both names would fit mechanical people. (Though it is
> hard to tell with Dorpian names: 'Vadsig' apparently means 'lazy'.)

aha. Thanks.



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