In a message dated 5/28/2004 5:16:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Henninge@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: "What do you call this?"--that is, this piece in a game. We may say: only someone who already knows how to do something with it can significantly ask a name. > And we can imagine the person who is asked replying: "Settle the name yourself"--and now the one who asked would have to manage everything for himself. _____ Would it change at all if the piece were a Chess Pawn about to be promoted, or a piece in Shogi about to assume new powers and able to be placed anywhere on the board? To an extent, in chess, and to a greater extent in Shogi, the piece about to be promoted is no longer itself but in the process of transformation, and a mystery. Will the Pawn become the usual Queen, or will clever calculation promote the Pawn to a Knight or Bishop? "What is that piece?" one player asks. "Wouldn't you like to know?" replies the opponent. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html