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- From: Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Onno Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Annotation: inconsistencies
- Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:38:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.094204.29772@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
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- rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
-
- >Yes, well, that's where my thesis falls to the ground. Or I assume it
- >does... I don't have G!G! at hand to verify.
-
- >OK, who's got all the DW novels on disk and can grep for all
- >references to months? (I know *one* of you guys does... :-) )
-
- >(Maybe Grune is the 32-day month left over when the rest of the year
- >is partitioned into 64-day months?)
-
- >(Maybe it's the dwarvish name for February?)
-
- >(Maybe Carrot thinks "J" is pronounced "Gr"?)
-
- In the german translation, they write "Gruni". That would support the
- last suggestion.
- >--
- >- Rich Holmes
- >"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of
- >accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave
- >like this." -- Douglas Adams
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