Grrl Power #1332 – Al-ari, al-ara, al-ari, al-ara ha ha ha ha
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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As it concerns the issue of capitalizing names of ethno-cultural groups or not, I am a bit uncertain on the issue and sometimes go back and forth. However, in the end I usually favor the option of capitalizing everything in a semi-consistent way regardless of whether they are races, ethnicities, or cultures, or whether they are RL or fictional. It seems more accurate and convenient this way.
Being an alt-history geek that often writes or discusses related scenarios or topics, it seems more convenient to me to have handy labels to distinguish say descendants of African slaves that live in the Americas from descendants of European or Asian immigrants that live in Africa, or to remark the important ethno-cultural difference between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. It comes convenient when say you write about timelines where a Pan-American USA sent the entire African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere to set up the Americo-Liberian equivalent of Greater Israel in West Africa after abolition or slavery, a more ruthless British Empire turned Southern Africa into an Euro-Asian settler land, or a successful Rome forged all of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa into China-like unbreakable unity.
This from the PoV of a guy that hates woke ideology with the intensity of 1000 suns, does not give its concerns and pet causes the time of day, and cares for values like freedom, facts, truth, pragmatism, science, and enlightened selfishness orders of magnitude more than equality or anybody’s feelings.
“Oh gods, I traded Sydney for this.” – probably way to many people speaking to Lorlara
there are worse things than Sydney and LorLara. I’ll take both of them.
Lorlana is a gem. She’s bucking for employee of the month and I think she has a chance!
In that last panel Sciona sounds like she was briefly possessed by Sydney, doe that slap go both ways or something?
Sweet, Deus’ two favorite Alari finally meet! I have so many questions! Are they related? Will they like each other ( guessing no from this interaction)? Will they make out (which has nothing to do with them liking each other!)? Will Sciona look down on Lorlara for denigrating herself by playing Deus’ lapdog? Will Lorlala look down on Sciona for binding her soul to an inferior human body? Will they fight? Will there be a Jello pool for said fight? Will Deus sell tickets??
I share your interest and approve most of your questions, but this
> Will Sciona look down on Lorlara for denigrating herself by playing Deus’ lapdog? Will Lorlala look down on Sciona for binding her soul to an inferior human body?
seems unlikely to me. For all their faults, Alari do not seem hypocrites about their Might Makes Right ethos. A lot of the survivors are coming to accept Deus as a better leader than their own Houses, with Lorlara as a forerunner. Sciona came to see her current body as an equal or better option than her old Alari one. Arguably it makes her rather more powerful and resourceful, esp. in a combo with her blood magic; also, no need to use magic to get an ideal body.
If the Alari saw themselves as superior to Muggle Earthlings, they had factual reasons to deem so within their value system, including superior tech level, better mastery of magic, and greater personal abilities. It would be interesting to know how Alari rate themselves in a comparison with demons/succubi, which seem on a level playing field and broadly similar in civilization and group-achievement terms.
If and when conditions improve for Earthlings in terms of more of them becoming supers, getting access to interstellar-level tech, and/or mastering advanced magic, it is quite possible and even likely that Alari opinion of them shall considerably improve.
Admittedly, humans so far have not overreached themselves and pissed off a stronger species into genociding them.
No one expects the Alari PA!
English is an amazing language. We stole ALL the words.
I forget who it was who said something like “English doesn’t just borrow words from other languages. It chases them down alleys, mugs them, and rifles their pockets for vocabulary.”
“loose grammar”, not “vocabulary”
SF reviewer and perpetual snarker James Davis Nicoll, I believe.
Yes. James used to run a game store in Kitchener, ON where he was delightfully snarky to his customers and that was one of his favorite lines. Though Steven Brust and the late, great Roger Zelazny said similar things.
The last speech bubble from Sciona made me laugh out loud, unfortunately having been coughing my lungs up with some illness for the past week, it caused me a great deal of pain. That’s on me, I should know not to look at funny stuff while ill.
Sciona speaks the truth.
Two webcomics shitting on the English language today XD
Is this a coordinated thing or a coincidence?
Don’t leave us in suspense. What is the other one?
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5510
QC is still going? use to read it a long time ago, but thought it ended when some of the characters got married or something (unless that was a different webic… )
last insult feels like she caught a dose of the sydney’s when she hit the trio with the hypno drug last page.
There doesn’t seem to be any point at this time.
English is fine you just have to know how to use the words.
Oh and I forgot to add…this is a soul takeover, Sciona has DNA currently, not DHA. Otherwise she would loose access to the Superion field.
But you DO capitalize race names… just not the unofficial versions. An Indian person is an Indian, a Jewish person is a Jew, a German person is a German, etc. But white and black are really just general descriptors, not a proper race name. So a Klingon person is still a Klingon. A human would be an Earthling or Terran, human is just the unofficial term we use in common speech.
You’re describing ethnicities/nationalities. Not races.
Difference seems entirely irrelevant and misleading to me since ethnicities, nationalities, races, ideologies, and religions ultimately share the same nature of cultural and political constructs. So to force relevant differences in the way of labeling them and the members of the groups they create seems an irrational and wasteful effort to me.
Barring the many other reasons why I loathe it, Political Correctness looks like an futile effort to me since the euphemism treadmill is an irresistible force as long as people stay people. Its ever-changing winds and ever more complex and maddening nomenclature are trying to win an impossible battle against human nature.
There is only one hyu-mon race (despite what certain racists want to believe), every thing else comes down to region
Jew is a religion, German is a nationality, neither are a separate race (yes, it is possible to be both a Jew and a German at the same time… shocking isn’t it?)
Vote Incentive: See what happens when these two Alari get left alone together in a hotel room! And yes, English allows the use of “alone together”. What a great language.
If you use a word, made up or not, and people know what you meant, then you used the right word.
It’s fun to quietly invent words and watch them slowly get integrated into the mindsets of people :)
DaveB two questions, what sites do you post your fanficts on, and what’s your pen name?
That doesn’t look like a good place to keep a phone.
Will it leave tan lines or an indentation?
How do IRL female humans store their phone?
Ah yes, the Klingons, speaking Klingon. At least they’re better off than the Romulans, speaking Romulan, from Romulus: Qo’noS managed to dodge the bullet of being known as “Kling.” https://screenrant.com/star-trek-klingon-homeworld-name-changed-why/
Jagannath? How about Jagganoth?