Digest urth.v004.n011

Kevin McGuire · 16 Aug 1997, 17:09 · from urth-v0004.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin McGuire" <kmcguire at itw.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v004.n011
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:09:17 +0000
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

> According to a friend of mine who is a anthropologist, the "animal"
> names look "vaguely Algonkian, the languages which were spoken over much
> of the northeast (Micma, Abnaki, Massachusett, etc.)"
>=20
> However, he can't be sure.  Perhaps this can send someone in the right
> direction, either on the net or in a library.

Hi,

I haven't read the story in question, but if you send a list of the=20
names to this list, I'll try to look them up in an Abenaki dictionary=20
that we have in the house.

Don't know if it will help much, but there it is.

Cheers,=20
Kevin McGuire    |"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than
Philadelphia, PA | when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right"
                 |    --Laurents van der Post

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