!lavengro wrote:My forum name came to me via an episode of an old radio series staring Basil Rathbone, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The episode is entitled The Guileless Gypsy [yeah, I know, but I do not think the term was as perjorative back then as it is now]. Sherlock was assisting a community of Roma wrongly suspected of skullduggery and such, and one of the Roma called him a "true lavengro, a master of words" upon hearing his use of the Romini language.
A little while back I found out there was a classic novel called Lavengro, so I assumed I'd discovered the origin of your screen name there.
It's unforgiveable for you to assert a different origin!