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Talk:Dwarfs
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Does Pratchett dwarfs or dwarves?--Teletran 09:45, 27 January 2007 (CET)
Many words for 'gold' or 'rock'?
"the word 'gold' in dwarfish is actually many different words" - Are we sure this isn't 'rock'? Witches Abroad tells us "It's also said that dwarfs have two hundred words for rock. They don't. They have no words for rock, in the same way that fish have no words for water. They do have words for igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, rock underfoot, rock dropping on your helmet from above, and rock which looked interesting and which they could have sworn they left here yesterday. But what they don't have is a word meaning 'rock'. Show a dwarf a rock and he sees, for example, an inferior piece of crystalline sulphite of barytes." Kellyterryjones 21:38, 27 September 2007 (CEST)
