====== Friendship is Magic! ======
[[./memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4764|Arayaz]] wrote: [[./viewtopic.php?p=331320#p331320|////]]2024-05-14T23:05:42+00:00
That's a wonderful insult ─ it looks like it's straight out of Calvin and Hobbes! It does seem too long to be a regular-use slur, though.
[[./memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=95|Khemehekis]] wrote: [[./viewtopic.php?p=331318#p331318|////]]2024-05-14T22:43:57+00:00
Heh -- these are great!
Thanks! I'm certainly a sweat factory right about now. Gulf coast summer has arrived.
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Here's a random bit of trivia that's a bit more positive: I mentioned earlier that some yinrih use the word (friend) as a generic name for humans. It's not just because we're the first and only other sophonts they've found after 100 millennia of searching.
The missionaries initially think that "Texas" refers to the whole planet, or at least a sovereign territory thereon. While they're swiftly corrected, they had already relayed the news about the (nation/country of friends) that they find, and this name for Terra sticks, at least as a sobriquet, within the Commonthroat-speaking community.
There are rumors that some of the more patriotic hams that the missionaries first meet had actively encouraged the misconception.
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