Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:50:24 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: Re: Tards -Reply



I don't know if the "Dr. Who" writers were aware of it, but the root

"tard" in Latin means "slow" or "late". In Esperanto, "tardis" is the

past tense of the verb "tardi" 'to be late'. Relevance possible but

marginal.



-- Dr. Whom

Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,

Orthoepist, & Philological Busybody