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Posted on 07/13/2004 9:49:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
hehehe... yah... that whole "free will" concept is a bugger sometimes.
Nevermind. :-)
It's a contraction of "daimyo" probably - samurai used to address their lord that way.
So I added "daimyo" as a keyword to my search and found this:
daimyo: head of a noble family line, lord.
danna: milord
-dono: suffix added as an honorific when referring to one's own lord
There are three forms of polite adress commonly used in Rokugan. An equal, or an inferior to whom one wishes to be polite, is adressed as (family name)-san, or (first name)-san if there are many people of the same family present. For a superior, the pattern is the same, except that the suffix is -sama. Finally, one's lord may also be adressed as "tono" ("lord"), or with the suffix -dono after his family name.
Interesting! Lone Wolf and Cub have any more along the lines of the above, Bear?
LOL!
Saw one of those in the road today, LOL! There's this one part of the road at the bottom of the hill near the river where all the critters like to cross the road, so every few days there's a new roadkill there in almost the same spot. You'd think they'd learn!
Well... they do learn... but for each of them it is too late to pass on the information. :-)
I've remarked a few times lately that it has been ~years~ since I smelled skunk, and it used to be a fairly common occurance to catch a whiff of them or see/smell them in the road. I think they are pretty much gone from this area.
Not really, although there is an interesting sequence near the end of the story that I came across last night... Lone Wolf (Ogami Itto) is dealing with his sworn enemy, Lord Yagyu. At this point of the story, Ogami's clan has been disbanded and/or killed, and Ogami himself is an outlaw. A third person acting as an intermediary between Ogami and Yagyu refers to Yagyu as "Yagyu-sama", which is correct because Yagyu is the person's superior. But, this same person refers to Ogami as "Ogami-dono"; since Ogami is not a lord at this point, and was never this person's lord, to my mind the "very respected person" definition fits better.
But I'm no expert!
Well, where'd they go?
~shrugs~ They went wherever the rest of the critters go when too many people move in.
They are in heaven now. The management at heaven is terribly concerned that the guests will find it unheavenly and complain. ;~D
LOL!--true :)
A few weeks ago there was a skunk smell every night outside my window for like 5 minutes, then fortunately it went away. Not sure what was going on there--never saw the critter, though I have seen 'em around on other occasions.
Surfing around here--this looks kinda useful:
"Well, where'd they go?"
Back to DU, maybe? :)
Very good! One of the classics, as they say.
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