Rajan vs Raja

Jordon Flato · 16 Apr 2009, 22:24 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: jordonflato at gmail.com (Jordon Flato)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:24:09 -0700
Subject: (urth) Rajan vs Raja
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Well, I don't want you to back down, I just don't remember a single instance
of Raja in the books.  Seems like if it was a valid conjugate, it would
appear at least once.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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