Swat on the grille it what they need, sometimes.
Belatedly I realize I should have dressed Selkie up as Kagomi, since the Dream Truck is all red like Inu Yasha. It shall be the meta reference that never was, XD
Swat on the grille it what they need, sometimes.
Inuyasha reference? Osuwari! Lol. I love the puppy truck.
Hmmm… I had in mind Kagura and Sadaharu from Gintama, considering the size of the ‘dog’. Either would work, I guess!
Save it for later.
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Oh come on, you KNOW there will be a “later.”
>tfw I just want to see poor lil selkie happy and loved ;_;
Selkie as Kagomi? Another Saturday sketch day idea!
No sibilant “s”es at the end of her words in the dream?
Nope. Doesn’t happen in her own mind.
Physical skills are stored in a different part of the brain than intellectual knowledge. My little brother and I used to think that Bowser, from the Mario games, was called “Browser,” and after we learned his actual name, it took ages for us to stop saying “Browser” on auto-pilot (even though my brother can be a huge stickler about the names of video-game characters) because the neural pathways in our brains still connected the concept to the set of instructions in our cerebellums for forming the word “Browser”.
The cerebellum, for anyone who can’t recall the functions of the parts of the brain right off the bat, stores the physical skills one has learned (what many refer to as “muscle-memory”). When you are learning to do something like drive or shoot baskets and you find yourself able to do it more easily without having to devote a lot of conscious thought to every tiny detail, it’s because you’ve been using the skill often enough that it’s been transferred into your cerebellum. This is why practice is important: using a skill frequently is what signals to your brain that the knowledge is important enough to convert to easily-accessible long-term storage.
Selkie knows the words in their actual forms, and she knows, intellectually, that the English language only pluralizes words to refer to a group of items or individuals, but when she was first learning she probably started out just fitting English-language analogues into the structure of her first language (I know I did that when I was learning Spanish). By the time she learned the proper formatting of the English language, she’d already built a habit of adding “s” or “es” onto words she would pluralize in her native language. (Dr. Pohl mentioned they pluralize for other reasons; I’m guessing it’s kind of like the way we say “they” when speaking about an abstract, hypothetical person even though it’s just the one hypothetical individual because it doesn’t feel right to say “he” or “she” when either gender is possible and “he or she” is clunky) Even if she doesn’t mean to say the plural form of the word, it comes out that way unless she’s focusing on it enough to consciously choose not to add that extra sound.
Assuming that Sarnothi Brains are constructed as similarly to human brains as the behavioral similarities between the two would indicate, I’d say that her frontal lobes (the portion of the brain responsible for conscious thought) know the actual forms of the words, but her cerebellum still connects the mental command to say “Can we have a field trip?” to the non-verbal instructions for how to physically form the sounds of “Cans we haves a fields trips?”
On a related note, I would like to hear more about the rules of Tensei at some point.
What other circumstances call for the pluralization of words? I haven’t managed to extrapolate anything from the words Selkie Pluralizes; I’m not sure if that’s because the conditions calling for non-plural pluralization are numerous and diverse enough to prevent me from recognizing separate patterns, or just because the distribution is chosen behind-the-scenes with emphasis on showing the difference without hindering the English-speaking audience’s ability to understand the dialog.
How do they conjugate verbs? Do they conjugate them at all, or is the information English-speakers communicate via verb conjugations given in other parts of the sentence?
How do they form compound sentences? Do they have something similar to the the comma and conjunction rule or the semicolon rule, or something completely different? Do they not form compound sentences but instead have some way of showing that a sentence is a ccontinuation of the thought started in the one before it?
What is their written language like? I know their words have been displayed using the english alphabet (presumably to allow english-language readers to get an idea of what the sounds of the words are, and differentiate between one-word answers and longer, more complex statements), but do they have their own alphabet? Does it use consonant digraphs (like “sh” in “shirt” and “th” in “that”), or does each consonant sound have it’s own character?
Does the subject of a sentence come before or after a verb?
How is the subject of a sentence differentiated from the object of a sentence?
Does Tensai have articles (words like a, an, and the)?
Does Tensai have participles (verbs used as adjectives or nouns like “cooking” in the sentence “I love your cooking.”)?
Sorry If I’m getting to enthusiastic about this, I just find this stuff really interesting.
What is the purple thingy in her hand? A wiffle-bat?
It’s her cellphone, dream-transformed to look like the powerful weapon it actually turned out to be in real life.
Yep. It’s her cell phone, swordified.
And now Megatron knows how to easily beat Optimus Prime. When the Decepticons take over the world, we’ll know who to thank for that, Selkie. 🙁
It’s a PURPLE weapon; that’s clearly Galvatron. 😉
Transformers AND Inu Yasha:) You are awesome:)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sitting car before.
Oh, good, so it wasn’t just me whose brain bent a little bit when the truck did. LOL
Yes! This is awesome! This touches the part of me inside that beat my own fears and insecurities in a similar way. I found your comic as a link through something else, and have been speeding through it to the beginning, waiting to comment, but not being able to stop from reading. This finally did it.
I hope that when I get to the present day’s strip, so many of these plot points will be resolved. I can’t wait!
Her sword; Oh, my, God, it’s full of stars!