# pronunciation

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Feb 2002*

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### Steve Strickland
*10 Feb 2002, 17:40*

Does anyone know the correct pronunciations of Drotte (Draht?), Roche (Rohsh
or Rohch or Rawsh?) and Eata (Eetah?)?

Steve Strickland


----- Original Message -----

> From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
> To: <urth at urth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 6:29 AM
> Subject: (urth) Re: race in Wolfe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Andre-Driussi" <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
> url: http://www.ultan.co.uk

>> FWIW I read the essay and enjoyed it. It is mainly about things and
>> issues
>> surrounding Colonizer/Colonized, a reading of 5HC that addresses
>> Colonialism. It starts off with a survey of what has been written over
>> the
>> years on this aspect of 5HC.  Using this to set the context, Wright then
>> goes further than any have dared before.

> Interesting.
> 
> I note one thing.  Wright casually uses the term "white" for coloniser,
> but
> what is notable about  TFHOC is that the colonised "abos" such as
> Sandwalker
> are very white physically.  ((If these are abos and not humans imitating
> abos.))
> 
> Wolfe is in fact quite notable for making the poor and oppressed in his
> books be specifically poor whites.
> 
> I do not mean that there are not occasional cameos by those of other
> ethnicity, but that his books are relatively free from PC pantomimes of
> ethnic white guilt.   It is usually whites who are the oppressed and
> persecuted.
> 
> Has anyone given any seriouss thought to the treatment of race in Wolfe?
> 
>     hartshorn
> 
> 
> 
> 
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