Re: Stunt Linguists (was Newbie)
From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
Date: | Friday, December 12, 2003, 9:30 |
Staving Daniel D Hicken:
> >>"I'm going to grow up to become a professional stunt linguist!"
> >>
> >>(extrapolation from a statement in a Terry Pratchett Discworld Novel)
> >
> >Which one? Ive read up to and including TWFM but I can't place the
>reference.
> >
> >Pete "Gold Gold Gold Gold" Bleackley
>
>According to the all-knowledgeable wife it's from The Lost Continent.
>(She's pretty sure & I can't honestly remember.)
"Last", rather than "Lost". It would fit in somewhere around the bit where
Rincewind et al. are discussing the meanings of expressions like "Snagged
as a wombat's tonka", generally defining them in terms of similarly
incomprehensible slang.
Pete