Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 8
Added 2021-06-04 19:00:05 +0000 UTCIdrisah!!! She's on the job, talking to the temps who don't speak Jovian English. Also Ohwitiil, on the job bullying a coworker about 65 times their size.
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The weird initials like C3 and T-2 are used to quickly classify words with a meaning that English doesn't have, like gendered 'you' and 'I' pronouns, or adding a specific tense to a verb that would otherwise take multiple English words to describe. It's kind of like she's talking in a syntactic diagram of a Tiiliitian sentence.
Jay Eaton
2021-06-07 07:36:38 +0000 UTCIs Idrisah using the 'interpretor-ese' you described before here? It's really neat; what purpose do the letters/numbers like 'C3' and 'P' serve? Seconding Boyd on the details and Talita; her waving is really cute too. Also loving how tiny Ohwitiil is next to her. Her interacting with scuds much later in the comic should be really fun.
hawkmoth
2021-06-06 17:01:25 +0000 UTCIdk they're like a frail old person, not very suitable for demolishing precarious structures built by green pigs
Jay Eaton
2021-06-05 04:14:34 +0000 UTCSometimes-- Jovian English is more grammatically flexible with gender than Tiiliitian; human speakers usually presume aliens as being non-gendered until they pick a pronoun. Most avians and bug ferrets don't bother picking because they don't relate to typical human gender dynamics. (Silly lore factoid: Martian English prefers xe/xem/xyr neutral pronouns for aliens over they/them/their)
Jay Eaton
2021-06-05 04:12:06 +0000 UTCLove all the little details, especially on the avian outfits and office chairs! (Poor Talita and her adorable startle reflex.) Do some avians pick human-similar pronouns/identities when they interact with humans, like how Idrisah identifies herself as a bright for work?
pinglederry
2021-06-04 20:22:48 +0000 UTCwould u say ohwitiil is an...angry bird?
Jules
2021-06-04 19:09:04 +0000 UTC
