But that is not the connotation of Egwene's comment.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 27/11/2009 08:45:40 PM
so if you go out to dinner and have a fabulous meal at let's say an Italian spot in town... and you think "Hmmm, friendX (who is a passionate cook of Italian food) should check this place out, s/he's always complaining that there are no good Italian restaurants in town" you are being anti-friendX?
Your interpretation that Egwene is being anti-Nynaeve has no substance.
Your interpretation that Egwene is being anti-Nynaeve has no substance.
I agreed that it is likely Egwene would think that. I suggested as much in the original post.
Now given what we see of Nynaeve's experience with Aes Sedai, in LoC especially, she IS a fan of that cooking, and a good cook, but everywhere she turns she is being given lousy food, with dry meatballs, burnt sauce, mushy pasta and so on. She complains about it, and we see her opinion IS justified.
Brandon Sanderson, however, has written her thoughts as "FriendX is full of sh1t. This place doesn't have bad food at all!"
A good friend would have been more likely to say "Well, here's at least ONE cook who knows what she is doing! I wish Nynaeve could experience this; it would make her feel so much better about being stuck in this culinary institute of her inferiors."
My point was, given that connotation of the actual words used, there are two reasons. 1. Egwene is a bitch who is already thinking of Suana as her "daughter" and identifying with her, the way she did with the Wise Ones against Nynaeve in T'A'R in tFoH or the Aes Sedai against Rand in tWoT, OR she MEANT what you said, but Sanderson WROTE it in a poor fashion, leaving the meaning ambiguous at best, but with a strong connotation of the interpretation I offered. I AGREE with the possibility of your suggested meaning, which is why I POSTED this!
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand?
- 27/11/2009 04:16:18 PM
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- 27/11/2009 06:30:31 PM
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I interpreted it as Branderson trying to make the Yellow more believable.
- 27/11/2009 07:09:43 PM
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- 27/11/2009 08:16:48 PM
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anti-Nynaeve?
- 27/11/2009 08:26:54 PM
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But that is not the connotation of Egwene's comment.
- 27/11/2009 08:45:40 PM
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Cannoli comes out looking like crap. RtDB!
- 27/11/2009 07:51:53 PM
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Please recall that you have admitted an inferior understanding of American English connotations.
- 27/11/2009 08:23:41 PM
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Yes. I admit to not being fully familiar with a third rate rip off of a language I speak. So?
- 27/11/2009 11:18:39 PM
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How can Egwene know she's unskilled if she's never Healed?
- 28/11/2009 12:19:58 AM
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Nitpicking.
- 27/11/2009 08:18:02 PM
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Actually it's trying to sort who is to blame for various idiocies.
- 27/11/2009 08:25:28 PM
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- 27/11/2009 08:27:29 PM
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- 27/11/2009 08:43:42 PM
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I agree that B-Sand did an excellent job overall
- 27/11/2009 08:51:41 PM
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- 27/11/2009 09:12:14 PM
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- 27/11/2009 09:15:01 PM
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- 27/11/2009 09:20:17 PM
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This sounds like the descriptions I've heard of The Sword of Truth.
- 27/11/2009 10:01:33 PM
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- 27/11/2009 09:17:58 PM
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- 27/11/2009 09:31:23 PM
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- 27/11/2009 10:19:14 PM
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- 28/11/2009 01:32:57 AM
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