Really, they're talking Liaden

[rolanni]

So, I'm noodling along through Scout's Progress, though not nearly as quickly as I had hoped today because the day-job wanted me to, like, work -- what's with that, exactly? -- and! I find a section where Daav and Er Thom are walking in the garden, talking, and there is a word -- a foreign word! -- properly italicized in their conversation.

What word? you ask breathlessly.

Moxie.




I'm for the couch, red pen, paperclips and galleys in hand.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I think Luken could call up some moxie, in the service of getting the Very Best Price for that rug over there...

Word!

[(Anonymous)]

I see Luken as a very polite, very courteous version of what I call the-standard-Persian-rug-merchant. I guess I'm trying to avoid used-car-salesman when I talk about Persian-rug-merchants. But Luken is very smooth - hence very successful.

Er Thom was a relatively successful Trader by that point - amethyst ring and all - so he had to have been acquainted with audacity. The risk management style called go-big-or-go-home. :)

It'll be interesting to see this book when it comes out - I never
paid this much attention to itals before.
Lauretta