Editing Talislantan Terminology (section)

==Gao Din==
The Gao Din are a synthetic culture, created during the early years of the New Age when the City-State of Phaedra created an insular penal colony and then abandoned it.  The reusaltant mix of ethnic and cultural types produced a rich stew of idiom, which has only recently begun to attract the attention of scholars.

<i>'''Spitting over the side of the ship'''</i>     A Gao gesture signifying an attempt to forget something meaningless - one more drop in the sea. 

An interesting comparison might be made with Virdish understandings of spitting; cp. "Spitting" below.  In point of fact, one ethnohistorian, Lyxandrous of Cymril, made a monumental study of expectoratory customs across the continent.  The resultant monograph, <i>Waters of Life: Sibilant Studies</i>, was not one of the Lyceum Arcanum Press's greatest sellers.  Only ten copies were ever reported sold, those being sold to students who took Prof. (retired) Lyxandrous' one and only offering of a seminar on the topic.