Grrl Power #868 - Patreon 2x

Reigys

lol, I like how they're speaking, and also his response to her. Heh

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Foradain

To which "he" do you refer? It seems unlikely, though. Sam Starfall, who also reportedly has a face that may cause undigestion, is much smaller than the only alien not showing his true sense-organ-cluster.

Andrew Denton

Wait, is he Sam from Freefall?

Evgeny Sandu

Job great Jake done by!

Evgeny Sandu

Exactly. Not to mention that different languages have different amount of syllables to be pronounced for each phrase and different speed of their pronounciation. English-Spanish and English-Japanese translators hate their jobs.

Dave Barrack

Panel 6 is probably what's confusing. I really should have had the driver's seat overlapping Eely Dan there in the back a bit. It's a SUV with the little boy and the bug alien sitting in the cargo space in the rear.

Incorrect visual placement. Panel 1 Native Human "Steve" (because why not Steve) looks over its left arm joint to visiting Human "Rob". Panel 2 shows visiting individual 1 behind Native Human "Steve". Panel 3 Human "Rob" is looking down left at Girl-Child-Friend Panel 4 Girl-Child-Friend is looking up and right towards Human "Rob" Panel 5 Visual Enjoyment and Activity Leader in seat behind Human "Rob" in seat row with Boy-Child-Friend and Individual 2. So all native terran humans and group of visual enjoyment & activity of food combustion placement in land traction movement vehicle are accounted.

AlpineBob

I'm having trouble placing some of these aliens. Physically. Car-wise. Panel one puts "Rob" in front passenger seat - no kid between him and driver Panel two puts bubble-head behind the driver. Panel five puts star-eyes next to the daughter. Panel six puts her next to the son, with the daughter moved up front. Panel seven puts the daughter in back between bubble-head and star-eyes. Probably the easiest fix is to move the son to the front seat for panel 6. Or replace the daughter with him in 5 & 7. But something needs work. Also, in panel six, it feels like bubbles is coming over the front seat. And there is a fourth head head in the back seat there which doesn't feel like it would work - no modern car I know has room for four people in the back seat. Some vans and trucks do, but no cars. Maybe the dad should just kick the son out: "Here's a five, son; go find a bus home. Get home safe and I'll give you a twenty."

John

The biggest issue with universal "magical" translators is that they show folks being translated real time. That's only possible if both languages use the same subject, verb, object sentence structure. English is a SVO language, "Sydney ate the chili". Others are SOV, "Sydney the chili ate" or VSO "Ate Sydney the chili", and rare few are OVS "The chili ate Sydney" or VOS "Ate the chili Sydney". And that's a simple sentence. Imagine longer, more complicated ones and how do you translate what's being said until its completely spoken?

SQEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Gilberg

Try "Slaughter the English language, we do."

Thomas Dorner

Still a way to go to meet Niven's/Gerrold's Flying Sorcerers. :-)

Noise

The term you're looking for is "Tuckerization." The old science fiction writer Wilson Tucker used to put his friends into his stories, using their names or appearances, and other writers started doing the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckerization

Town Crier

"English language slaughter we. Yes. Mmm." -Me, in "Yoda voice", to a 1980's college peer who had just done such.

Wyrmhand

I love their trying of speaking languages new. :-)

VC

Babel Fish

Justaguy

Of course then you wind up with "I feel like taking you out for something spicy." as, "Halo and Harem at Lingerie Death Wings."