>Events of My Life (KoS pg 211) has the unpromising entry '1621 --
>Whitewall falls. Ashart dies of heat.' What if 'heat' is a mis
>translation of an idiom such as 'temperature' in English, which can mean
>high or low temperature? Ashart is only 3 years old at that time, and we
>should note that young children are particularly prone to hypothermia
>because of their small size.
If we're considering translation errors 'heat' could also translate as fever rather than a reference to external temperature.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/ --__--__--
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