Re: Alarishi luggage
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:49:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Alarishi luggage
From: Brian Burger
> > Ankh-Morpork, Alarish, what's the difference?
> You sort of hope the sanitation is better on Alarish.
And no river.
> But I bet the people aren't as interesting there!
Hopefully you read the description I just posted.
> Thought - unregulated Alarishi genetic engineering - has anyone
built
> Luggage yet? :>
No, but they hope evetually to tone down what they *have* built so it
has a calm, peaceable nature, like the Luggage. By the way, you have
no Need To Know on that, so please forget you heard it.
> Incidentially, does 'Alarish' mean anything in one language or
another?
> (it's Russian for 'insane anarchist loons', right?)
I think I once asked a Russian speaker if "Alarish" meant anything in
Russian, and it doesn't. The main languages of Alarish are
Portuguese, German, English and Russian--not that I speak Portuguese,
German or Russian. (Yankees may suggest that I don't speak English