Rajan vs Raja

James Wynn · 16 Apr 2009, 22:19 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:19:23 -0500
Subject: (urth) Rajan vs Raja
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>>If I understand this properly, "Rajan" is the form of address.
>>"O Rajan, aren't you Silk?"
>>"Raja" is the nominative tense: "The Raja crawled out of the pit."

>I don't think so...my OBW character index lists people
>like "Hoop, one of the RAJAN's scribes" and "Pehla,
>the RAJAN's principal concubine."

eh...okay. I think I'm technically right, but I'll conform to avoid 
antagonizing the list.

J.

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