"fonted" = 'identified on screen'?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed May 21 23:21:40 UTC 2008


At 6:03 PM -0400 5/21/08, Michael Covarrubias wrote:
>Mark Mandel wrote:
>>Huh. I wouldn't want to be /'kaIrOnd/. Chiron is the ferryman who carries
>>dead souls across the Styx.
>>
>>m a m
>>
>You're thinking of Charon (also the name of Pluto's satellite/twin body)
>
>Chiron was a centaur adept in medicine. A gentleman among rascal centaurs.
>
and a font of wisdom

LH

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