On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 08:20  PM, David Johnston wrote:

Thermopyle wrote:

Heh.  It's been 10+ years since I read Dracula, so I don't know.  
Somebody
else emailed me about that, and about Dame.  I do have to say, though, 
that
reading Helsing or Dame Integra would be off-setting for me.  You are 
more
familiar with Dracula, and some others with English knighthood, but I 
don't
know if most readers of Hellsing fanfics would consider those more 
natural.
Before this discussion, I had read another Hellsing fic, which used 
Dame
instead of Sir.  It annoyed the hell out of me.  So, different people,
different preferences, I suppose.

That was a woman in the fic?  I did not realise that.  Oh...by the way
even though it's fair enough to assume that the name's spelling drifted
over the course of a century, Van Helsing was a Dutch name, not a
German one.

One of the problems with first-person.  I did make the assumption that 
the person reading had watched the series, and would know who Integra 
was.

-- Nick


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