In sci.space.policy message , Sun, 10 Jul
2011 00:13:02, Doug Freyburger posted:


It's the name of the central character of the novel. A person's name.
I figured it was intended to sound like it came from one of the Romance
languages but that got garbled across the generations. Then again is
was Joseph Conrad. He was not a native English speaker and that shows
in his writing. Conrad novels typically read better when they are
spoken like you're in a Rocket J Squirrel and Bullwinkel Moose
cartoon. Try it some time. ;^)


Conrad wrote for the better-educated British of about a hundred years
ago, Naturally that will not seem right to a present-day American such
as I suppose you to be.

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