From:	Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Argent (was: Re: Cliche Names (was Re: Characters in Books)
Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:37:46 +0000

> > Or more simply, Argent is Silver in French, just as Sangre is blood
> > in french (for those of you reading the novels).
>
> Yea... isn't that what I said? "a twisted FRANCO-Latin-Indo-European
> route."
>
> (ie. each of these languages have a word similar to "Argent" which means
> silver)

The key word being "similar". Argent LITERALLY means silver in
French, and in modern parlance it means "Money". The way you said
it makes it sound like it's a "twisted" route....I was saying that
the French one at least is direct.

-=SwiftOne=-
Brett Borger
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