schablotron looks fine too...
incidentally my dictionary traces Schablone back to Latin scandere (to
climb), which is also the root of e.g. 'ascend' or 'scale'.
Tom
Nick Semenov wrote:
> To be exact "schablone" is a word of german origin borrowed by many slavic
> languages including Czech.
>
> If I may.
>
> NS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Honza Jirousek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:07 AM
> To: Sablotron Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Sab] What is the meaning of sablotron?
>
>
> Elmar Hinz wrote:
>
>> What is the meaning of sablotron?
>
>
> To be the eyes and ears and conscience
> of the Creator of the Universe
> [Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions]
>
> sorry I couldn't help it :-) You probably wanted to know what is the
> meaning of the word "sablotron". The word is an invention of Tom Kaiser,
> the principal author of Sablotron, and it is based on the Czech word
> "sablona", which means template. You probably will get the
> pronunciantion wrong when you try. Maybe one day we will get Tom to
> record the pronunciation in MP3 and distribute ...
>
> Honza
>
>
