This Week in Google Alerts: story with Gaiman

António Pedro Marques · 21 Feb 2011, 01:42 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:42:33 +0000
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: story with Gaiman
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Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I other words I think:
>
> <Terminus Est> : <Sev's language> :: Latin : English
> <language Thea mentions> : <Sev's language> :: <really ancient language>
> : English

I suppose : means 'is to', :: means 'as' and <> are just paretheses?
If so, it took me a while to figure it out.
I would suggest avoiding >.

> The language Thea mentions is clearly present-day English.  So the
> timeline is like:
>
> <really ancient language> (not mentioned(
> -----
> -----
> <Latin> (not mentioned)
> <English>  (referenced by Thea)
> -----
> -----
> <'Terminus Est' language> (translated to Latin by Gene Wolfe)
> <Severian's language> (translated to English by Gene Wolfe)

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