Re: [LoGH] German Name Research Notes
Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:38:33 -0700
I believe that Mittermyer's nickname is "Gale Wolf" ,
not "Beowolf".
He was called Gale Wolf for his agility.
"Beowolf" is his shipname.
Rikako
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>From: "Lance Gemmell"
>To:
>Subject: Re: [LoGH] German Name Research Notes
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 06:39:27 -0700
>
> I am not sure. Well I might be completely wrong, but earlier in the
> series Mittermeyer was nic named the "Gale wolf" or in some cases Beowolf.
> The translators might have been makeing an mistake from the begining and
> mistook the nic name for the name of the ship or vice versa and not bothered
> to recheck their work. You know, "ok I have translated the ships name" then
> just suplement the name in all the instances they beleave the the ships name
> comes up. Thanks for finding the correction though. Werewolf, that is kind
> of a cool intimidating name for a ship.
>
> I just wanted to thank everyone on the list that has helped promote this
> series. I think you are all doind a great job.
>
> Lance Gemmell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerxes@pacific.net.hk
> To: logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Date: Sunday, September 24, 2000 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [LoGH] German Name Research Notes
>
>
>>At 07:13 AM 2000/9/19 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>>I don't know if anyone's particularly interested but here are the notes
> for
>>>the German LoGH Name Research.
>>>
>>>Any contributions or opinions are welcomed. I think the Free Planets
>>>Alliance should be the next research task.
>>
>>[deleted]
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>>>Beowulf
>>
>>If this refers to Mittermeyer's flagship, you have been misled by the
>>transliteration
>>mistake made in the animation. In the novel, Mittermeyer's flagship is
>>meant to be
>>called "Waerewolf", which is German for werewolf. (I am not sure about the
>>spelling. Check with somebody who speaks German.)
>>_____________________________________________________________________
>>
>>Xerxes J.
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