When Serbian isn’t Serbian… it’s Chakobsa!

SandChigger | March 12, 2010

Askaris de DAR sent me a link over on Facebook to this post on the Science Fiction Observer blog from the end of February: “Dune: Did Frank Herbert grok Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian?” The author (Razvigor) points out that the chant in this passage from Dune Deep within the cave, someone began chanting: “Ima trava okolo! I korenja [...]

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Dune Encyclopedia subdomain added to HToD

SandChigger | March 12, 2010

I’ve added a new subdomain to the website which will be concerned with The Dune Encyclopedia. I’m not sure exactly what all will eventually end up there, but one of my projects at the moment is tracking down and contacting as many of the Encyclopedia contributors as I can find (of the original 43, I [...]

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“Very postings!”

SandChigger | March 12, 2010

Why, thank you, Raizordaniown! I appreciate that … I think. Spasiba! Just one of the four spam comments I found waiting for me on the blog this morning, the only legible one of the lot (the rest, as I’ve noted before, were just a series of question marks), and the first such in a while. [...]

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