In Te Fahn’s hunting experience if you hold back on using your most effective weapon, you get PAAAAAAANTSed.
Speaking of Pants, lest you forgot…
"Tastes like sadness" is how I describe the McDonalds $1 cheeseburgers.
In Te Fahn’s hunting experience if you hold back on using your most effective weapon, you get PAAAAAAANTSed.
Speaking of Pants, lest you forgot…
Kind of surprised she didn’t even get a “language! for that f bomb. 😀
I’m guessing it was a Sarnothi swear?
Selkie in the last panel going “Hmm hmm hm hmm hm hmmm hm hmmmm”
Uh, Dave, in your commentary therein lies a broken link.
Corrected link: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie977/
Sweet, adorable apex predator. Uh huh. Give her a spear and watch out.
Reminds me of when my sweet 13 year old niece showed me her brand new LadyHawk compound bow. My only reaction at the time was bwuh?
yeah, i think its cool how sweet+shy te fahn is obviously a skilled hunter, of creatures that would give most humans nightmares. her rep is *so* going to skyrocket after this!
and kudos to your nice for hunting with a bow instead of a gun. less noisy and more…fair? then the morons that make up for sh#y aim by pumping more lead into a poor animal. but a bow, now that takes proper aim and concentration!
Just defending my point of view, a true hunter doesn’t just pump lead into an animal, for that ruins the meat. Rather, they will take the time to make sure to get a kill shot and use one round to bring it down. Granted, there are those who do firing round after round at an animal they miss, but that is more like they are angry at missing the first shot and trying to get the animal. Not saying its right, but my opinion.
well yeah, of course there are good hunters who use guns as well, i was talking about the ones who use semi-automatic guns and shoot at damn near everything that moves just for fun. we have a few of those around where i live, they drink beer while they ‘hunt’, cut out just enough meat to slap on their fire for a meal and leave the rest of the carcass to rott….a terrible waste, and a surefire way to send the coyote populace skyrocketing.
to me, a true hunter is someone who kills for meat (not trophies) and shows respect to the dead animal by using as much as possible of its body
If we’re sharing opinions on hunting, I’ve honestly always been of the opinion that if you’re hunting primarily for sport, you should keep it sporting.
If someone’s hunting primarily for food, then fine, go ahead, use whatever. If you really need that buck to make it through the winter then you’ll be careful to put it down clean so you can get the most out of it.
But if you’re after it for a challenge? For the sport? For the trophy? Then you’d better not be using anything more sophisticated than a sharp rock tied to a sturdy branch.
If you’re hunting for sport, make it a fair fight. Track your prey with only you own knowledge and senses. Earn the kill.
If you’re not willing to strip down to a loincloth, wrestle that buck into submission, and break its neck with your bare hands, then what the hell are you even doing?
(I’m serious. If you want me to be impressed by your hunting trophies, it’d better have been something worth bragging about.)
You eat what you kill, you don’t let it go to waste, you don’t kill the babies or mothers, and you never, never take more than you need.
Those people you described aren’t hunters, they’re pathetic.
It’s the quiet ones, the ones that don’t brag; thems is the ones you’ve got to watch out for. The braggarts are all wanna-bes, but the quiet ones….
yup. My niece was one of those. *shiver*
Those who speak loudest have the least to speak about.
Or the ones that use some monster size cannon to shoot some unsuspecting deer on the next mountain over. You want to impress me with your hunting skills, kill it with a spear or run it down and kill it with a knife. Shooting it a mile away, nope, not impressed.
Now, if you’re hunting primarily for FOOD, that’s a different story In that case, you use whatever you can to guarantee the kill, within reason. The people who have multiple States’ worth of hunting liscences, both buck and doe and other large food animals, and fill their 5 deep freeze freezers with 2 thousand pounds of meat to last them through a year… Yeah, that’s alright.
Barehand it or bust.
If you’re raised in Jurassic Park, velociraptor hunting is just chores. Nothing to get excited about.
Correction Dave, $1 burgers taste like “affordable sadness”. Not everyone can spring for Happiness. …WOW that got depressing!
That’s just life under the rulership of Oligopolmart!
“Tastes like sadness” is how I describe the McDonalds $1 cheeseburgers. – Dave
That’s why I go to A&W.
I miss A&W…..
Why? There’s got to be one near you.
What I miss is the “Holy Smoke A Tavern.” It was located in Sumas WA and it had the best burgers ANYWHERE – it had to, it was a biker hangout & you don’t disappoint those people.
I live in Maine, no locations anywhere near us.
“Tastes like sadness” is how I describe *all* of McDonalds’ offerings except cookies, coffee, and orange juice. Then again, those are three things that are hard to bollix up, so…
I have had bollixed-up orange juice. I was impressed at the same time I was disgusted.
I like the expression “tastes like sadness”, so poetic. (If it’s not a common expression yet it ought to be
Meanwhile Selkie’s all “Well, this time it’s not my fault so I’m just going to stay quiet.”
Question: or is it shocked envy. Dave never purposefully took her hunting, right? Closest she ever got was fresh caught fish in that stream, AmIRight?
That’s a “someone goofed up” look if I ever saw one.
I don’t think the government would want the average person to know about talking eels.
Peya Luna, before you call hunters with guns morons, stop and think a moment. Yes, bow hunting is hard (and I agree, more sporting), but that doesn’t mean gun hunting is easy. Pick up a stick (pretend it’s a gun), go into the woods, and see if you can get what would be a clean shot at a deer. It is not so easy as you might think. Further, most hunting is for food, not trophies. Full disclosure: I don’t hunt.
Just a pedantic nitpick about Te Fahn’s English skills. Yes, I remember her using “Mama” in translated Sarnothi, but “Papa” is an uncommon enough diminutive in American English, (and when it is it’s SO two generations ago) I have trouble believing that’s the diminutive she was taught.
Hm, I’d cut Dave some slack here. Yes, technically whatever informal English words the new Sarnothi kids have picked up, they should all be talking alike, because they were all in the same class and they had the same English instructor(s).
But that’s no fun. It strips away one of his best writing tools — characterization through word choice. So I think he’s opted to individualize the Sarnothi kids by giving them an occasional word that would be telling if a human kid used them. If a human little girl calls her father “Poppa” what would that suggest about her family? A bit old-fashioned — as you say — and perhaps rural? And that’s exactly right for what we’re learning about Te Fahn.
We use Papa in my house for my dad (to a certain degree) because the grandkids (my nephews and nieces) can use it as well, since it works equally well for Father and Grandfather.
Much better than how I have occasionally called my brother “Dad” (sigh).
Part of fluency of learning another language is exposure the shows and literature written by native speakers of that language. Another part is exposure to conversation with native speakers of the language, and that would have to be one-on-one. So there will be some variance of idioms to get them speaking clearly enough to be understood by other people.
Source: my adoptive mother is French Canadian. I met her after she lived in the US for a few months, and she was barely understandable. Two years later, and people couldn’t tell where her accent is from.
Secondary Source: I worked as a tier two over the phone tech support for awhile. One of the tier one people early on working there was very new, and was very difficult to understand. A few months later, I recognized her voice and notes while receiving another call, and she was much much clearer. One of the tier one people revealed to me that they had been the best in their class, and all their classmates had complimented them on their accent, but when they tried talking to a native speaker, they were barely understood.
Learning a new language is hard. Being able to talk with native speakers of that language is even harder.
Dave you dick! I love the $1 burgers from mcdonalds!
More for you, then. 😉
Hmmm, it absolutely makes sense that City Eel would have a markedly different taste, given the established inbreeding and whatnot. Kudos on the world building, Dave! 😀