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Yes.  I actually explain this in the story.  It was people of one world who first discovered how to move across the sundered worlds, and they gave most of the world names in the style of their own place-names.  I chose Slavic, and in particular Russian, as my prototype.

But there should be a few worlds that are exceptions.

Now if you were a flying pig, that experience would be soooo much more satisfying!

Get it down on paper#######in ISO-646, fer heaven's sake!  Don't risk losing it.

No, it's not good.  I lost four or five days with my mother in HER last days over this.  The LL will say I should keep things neater and throw more out, but the part with the State of NJ was a snipe hunt.

Still working.  I'll get no sleep, get reamed out and need to call a lawyer, and have to drive into the city as well.

Skylight.

Behira and Alda.

Alda's fighting technique.

Alda's dislike of serious fighting, and the fury that will follow when she is forced into it.

That's for starters.

Credit Rex Stout.  But your ordinary mooks still say 'phooey'.  It's only Kha or Geron who 'pfui', and never on cue.  Or ... maybe Airen or one of Saundon's retinue?

I like the bedbug idea, though.  I may use it sometime.

And, as The Great Schnozz would remind us, co-inky-dinks do happen!  (Evverrybody's got ta get inta de act!)

Sol, ths one's for you and the team.  Amy, don't change this until Sol's seen it!

Go to Amy_s`s new Chapter 17, Dictates of Faith.  Start an inline review.  As the FIRST comment, go to the second paragraph, first two sentences beginning with 'this', the second one italicized.  Try to capture the first sentence and the first word of the second sentence for the comment.  You will find that the machinery captures the whole of both sentences.  Cancel the comment and try again.  You will find that you cannot start a new comment until you reload the page.

I suspect that there are at least two bugs at work here, both probably design errors.  My distant guess is that there's an XHTML or HTML representation and something is jumping over a -span-.  If that's not it, it doesn't matter; it is a bug, and might reveal a lot about the other glitchen people are hitting when selecting text.

The second one, I am guessing, has to do either with cleaning up on the cancel or with something that confuses an empty set (however represented) with no set.  Again, distant guess.

Please have a look at this frustrating mmisbehavior.  Thanks ....

Merran can deal with bedbugs.  She's a sorcerer.

She and Jamen can't deal with notoriety, although they'll get some as they go along.

She and Jamen are skipping town anyway, fast.  Nor do they look like the pair in question.  And the little bit of story checks out, sort of.

What Merran cannot do, unlike Amy_s's Katerin, is reweave her clothing with the wave of a wand.

You've got at least one place with both olde and nuiw text, a big  section.

It may be a character missing from the local copy of the character set.  It might be an ambiguous coding, which is supposed to be illegal and should be removed to prevent security holes.

Also, MicroSlough uses some characters illegally, including 'smart quotes'.  (They also violate the rules for HTML in their HTML encodings.)

Word processors and such work from a standard palette of symbols.  There are three basic levels: the 7/8 bit set, the 16 bit set and the 32-bit set.  The difference between the 16-bit set and the 32-bit set as that in the smaller set (Unicode/'Basic Multilingual Plane') a  number of languages have to share characters in a pool with the Chinese languages ('Unified Han').  There are also ways of coding the longer sets in varying numbers of bytes.

Just about any modern word-processing system should support all the Roman-derived characters as well as Arabic and several other writing systems.  (Also Greek symbols.)

I don't recall all the names offhand.  Look up Unicode on WikiP and chase links.  This is big-time International Standards stuff.