Any Questions?

[Dotsie]

Well I confess I looked it up, but the only previous name I could find for Threadneedle Street was Three Needle Street, so someone's being coy (that's not like the Internet). Can someone let me in on the secret please?

 

[Dotsie]

Oh my word!

 

[Tonyblack]

Oh my word!

Well you did ask!

 

[chris.ph]

 

[Jinx]

I wonder how often there were embarrsing mix-ups with gents looking for a seamstress (of either variety) back then. There's so much innuendo that could've took place.

 

[Tonyblack]

I wonder how often there were embarrsing mix-ups with gents looking for a seamstress (of either variety) back then. There's so much innuendo that could've took place.

Like with Sandra Battye in Night Watch.

 

[Jinx]

Like with Sandra Battye in Night Watch.

Very much so.
Or even vice-versa would make someone of a certain disposition giggle and grin.

 

[Colin]

I wonder how often there were embarrsing mix-ups with gents looking for a seamstress (of either variety) back then. There's so much innuendo that could've took place.

Like with Sandra Battye in Night Watch.

... that was superbly written ... and much appreciated by those of us who have met Sandra Battye in 'real life'.

 

[Tonyblack]

I wonder how often there were embarrsing mix-ups with gents looking for a seamstress (of either variety) back then. There's so much innuendo that could've took place.

Like with Sandra Battye in Night Watch.

... that was superbly written ... and much appreciated by those of us who have met Sandra Battye in 'real life'.

Yes indeed!

 

[Pita]

I've been wondering about the Latin in the books.
Can people interpret it from different books, mainly the watch books?
For example, in Men at Arms, Vetinari tells Carrot to check what "politician" means. What does it mean?

 

[Jarmara]

Pretty much, I've never learned real Latin and Terry does tend to use his own brand of Disc-latin but -ian at the end of word indicates 'belonging to' therefore Politician means 'man belonging to the City' which does seem to sum up Vetinari's relationship with Ankh-Morpork.

 

[chris.ph]

i think politician means man of the citybut im not 100% sure

 

[Jarmara]

Policeman means man of the City Chris, Carrot told you that!

 

[chris.ph]

thought id heard it somewhere

 

[Tonyblack]

I think a real Latin scholar would throw up his hands in dismay at some of Terry's 'dog' Latin. But with a little bit of work the meaning can come across I think. A bit like Nanny Ogg's 'foreign'.

 

[TheMole]

I had studied Latin at the college.

Politia means constitution or state system

Politicus is an adjective - connected with constitution

Any further questions on Latin words? don´t be shy

 

[Tonyblack]

In Monstrous Regiment Lt. Blouse has a horse named Thalacephalos. It's (I'm pretty sure) a parody of Alexander the Great's horse, Bucephalus (which I think means 'bull-headed').

Now as far as I can work out, that means something like 'empty-headed' - would that be right?

 

[chris.ph]

i do like CARPE JUGULUM be a nice tatto underneath a picture of a vampire

 

[TheMole]

Tonyblack - I don´t know much about this one, it´s meant to be pun on Ancient Greek... the best I managed to find is on http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk/dwm0093.php

 

[Jason]

Thought I'd read that somewhere. Didn't realised it was in one of my back issues. LOL