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Grrl Power #1332 - Al-ari, al-ara, al-ari, al-ara ha ha ha ha
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I don't know if only a wolverine could be specifically responsible for Lorlara's speech pattern. I don't have any esoteric knowledge about wolverine digestive processes. Maybe a goat could also work. Possibly a housecat with pancreatitis?
I think propriokinesics is a made up word. If you've read my Tamer fanfic novels, you know I have a tendency to do that. Not... inveterately. Just like, once in every hundred thousand words. Anyway, it's supposed to mean "how people move." In this case, we can blame Lorlara for not being satisfied with just saying that instead of needing to do a bunch of googling then slam two words together like she was speaking casual German. Not that I did the exact same thing >cough<.
Essentially though, what she's saying with the Neural Voltage Potential bit is that nerves carry a certain amount of voltage, (with many factors contributing to that voltage, including the coating on nerves (the myelin sheath) and attenuation of voltage etc, etc.) and that voltage affects everything from reflexes to how hard someone can flex their muscles, and the differences in the neuromuscular biology between and alari and humans is a tell-tale in how they move. Sciona grew up in an Alari body, then most of her inhabited a troll for a while, then back to an Alari, and now a human. Lorlara is saying Deus is perceptive enough to notice all the little signs of the different bodies she's inhabited.
Which is simply not true. Deus might be able to tell if an alari recently Freaky Friday'd with a human, but the brain would probably start to compensate and smooth over any weird propriokinesic quirks after a few weeks.
Speaking of English being a fine and/or sucky language, I always want to capitalize race names, but you just don't. If you're talking about a klingon, you don't. If you're speaking in Klingon, you do, so that's another irritating thing about English.
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JasonAW3
As to the last frame, Sciona pretty much sums up Lorlara's speech about as close to what I imagined how she spoke as can be imagined...
JasonAW3
And puns...
Hugh Eckert
I was more talking about the structure than the actual word borrowing. I agree that the multiplicty of words is a feature, not a bug. It is indeed a fine language for poetry. I also appreciate the lack of gendered nouns, amongst other things.
eddi_TBH
Advanced genetic engineering in their cases. apparently edgy and questionable as people like Dr Bashir keep it secret.
eddi_TBH
Deus is the master of the cold read. And uses the same cheats to achieve it. He probably memorized everything the Alari he is aligned with has on Sciona, for just this possibility. His facility with languages is part of his overall genius.
Matthew Thompson
Tangential thought. 1) Sydney and her Alari doppelgΓ€nger are now more or less collocated. 2) Sydney is currently tripping balls.
Mark Magagna
I used to think you couldn't get offspring from two different species. There are counter-examples in real life (several species of big cats can interbreed), but Star Trek and D&D walk all over the definition. D&D has magic as an excuse; I'm not sure what Star Trek has come up with since the Federation supposedly has a down on genetic manipulation, yet half the Star Trek shows have a half-something (Vulcan/human, Vulcan/Romulan, Klingon/human, etc.)
Person
Klingon isn't a race. It's a species! D&D did the world a disservice.
Evil Midnight Lurker
I strongly disagree with this whole "English is Bad because of all the borrowing/mugging" thing. English is awesome because of that! All the synonyms and so forth give it a million shades of meaning. Therefore, English gets the BEST poetry!
Mark Magagna
That doesn't work. The first time she bends, the shirt loosens and the "grippy" phone just falls out (without slipping mind you). One or more of the shirt, the phone, or her skin are adhesive.
Mark Magagna
I think you mean proprioception. From propius meaning one's own or individual plus capere or to grasp. It's a word used in athletics a fair bit; it means knowing where one's body is in space. Without it you can't do complicated movements properly. Propriokinesis should mean something similar, though "kinesis" would seem to be movement without the "grasp" part. So without understanding the movement (although I'm not sure if the coiners of the word meant to use that dual meaning).
Erin Palette
"English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore." -- James D. Nicoll
Hugh Eckert
A-la-ri, a-la-ra, life goes on, brah... Also, English was a fine language. Then Latin happened to it. Then Norse. Then Norman French. Then more Latin (and Latinized Greek). Then Parisian French. And eventually the "Great Vowel Shift". I recommend the "History of English" podcast. Fascinating stuff... sometimes in the way a train wreck is fascinating, though. ;-)
Raymond Dannelly
It's three dialects in a trechcoat, lurking in dark alleys to rob other languages for spare adjectives.
michael
The notes on the bottom seem off
Shadracht
And lots of sex.
Shadracht
Lorlara is like the best hype woman ever. She just goes around reminding people of how awesome Deus is.
Michael Obert
Seconded!
Seth Ruskin
English follows other languages down dark alleys to mug them and steal loose words from their pockets,
Stephen Gilberg
We capitalize terms based on geographic names, which accounts for most ethnic groups and languages, but species names are another story.
Brenda Allen
Ooh, could be a grippy phone case to prevent slippage... Now I want one π
JasonAW3
Well, i have to give Sciona her props... She didn't actually kill the human she possessed, she just took up residence in the recently deceased body. (Hey, she wasn't using it anymore, so what's the harm?)
Woodrobin
Forensic kinesiology exists: analyzing movement patterns and sequences in order to solve crimes. Deus is definitely smart enough to apply such techniques to identifying someone's background and identity.
Justaguy
So basically next level Kinesiology (The Scientific study of human movement. Broad field including anatomy, physiology, biomechanics etc...)
Leo Once3333
Ah, thank you! ...though that sounds a lot like Digimon tbh lol
Town Crier
Think how pissed-off she would be, if she was speaking French in front of a French person. Just sayin'. Death rays would split the air.
Cha0sniper
Dammit, I can't believe I'm agreeing with Sciona xD
Cha0sniper
Bits stolen from wherever the brits colonized and wherever colonized the brits xD
Enigma42
No a series of ten novels about a guy who is iseakaied to a mid fantasy world with prehistoric animals who survives with help of new friends
Opus the Poet
Propriokinesis is the word for knowing where your body parts are by feel. Not a word in common usage, but still a real word. Perfectly cromulent.
Leo Once3333
Tamer fanfic? As in digimon?
Andrew Denton
Bah. English isn't a language, it's a pidgin mix of Breton, Latin, Danish, German, Norman French, with bits stolen from wherever the Brits colonized. It's the trade tongue you often see referenced in fantasy and sci-fi.
Michael Obert
A terrible surprise for 6 times guy π
Thisguy
Or her boobs are adhesive.
3of4
Well, they say a picture says more than a thousand words but I do not want the picture Sciona is drawing here...
Michael Obert
That is either the world's lightest phone or the world's strongest blouse.
Serp Auer
Oh that last frame that got me laughing pretty damn hard I set my dogs off!
