Amanda: “More like “bass line”, am I right?”
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SCAR: Maybe demonstration is being ordered, yes?
[LASER NOISES]
[MACHINE NOISES]
TODD: OH! It's some kind of meter.
SCAR: Yes! For measuring of outputs and aiding in determining of baselines for training, yes?
TODD: Maybe you should have just said that.
SCAR: Then I would not be having the expression of your face! Ha ha!
[LASER NOISES]
[MACHINE NOISES]
TODD: OH! It's some kind of meter.
SCAR: Yes! For measuring of outputs and aiding in determining of baselines for training, yes?
TODD: Maybe you should have just said that.
SCAR: Then I would not be having the expression of your face! Ha ha!
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I don’t know if the “bass” mentioned there is the fish or the tone, and with what Amanda has gone through both would be appropriate from her.
So it measures accuracy AND power?
Todd, this isn’t just target practice, this is calibration!
Presumably that is Sarnothi writing that showed up on the target/meter, which I’m guessing Todd does not know how to read, and Amanda probably doesn’t either. The question is, does Selkie know how to read that?
Why should she? Because she was born there? She was five when she entered the human world. How many five-year-old American kids can spell? Maybe simple words like dog and cat and boy and girl. But pneumonia? Automobile? Straight jacket? Antidisestablishmentarianism? 😀
It’s not implausible for kids 3-5 to be able to “sound it out”. She might have retained enough to work out some or all of it, depending on when/how she was taught and how well she retained it after ~3 years of no exposure, and whether Sarnothi is an even weirder language than English.
Could anything be weirder than English?
I have a browser plugin by xkcd that substitutes words into more interesting words. I added a ton of my own substitutions.
Effectively, this has been creating a very interesting sort of AU for whatever I read online (e.g. turning man, woman, and child into dwarf, elf, and halfling, various types of money into gold coins, copper coins, doubloons or the like, and customers into “alien visitors”).
I find it amusing that in this AU, according to your post, five-year-olds find it easy to spell “furry overlord” and nobody seems to question that this should be easy to spell.
I’m just reminded of the power testers in DBZ in which Vegeta just destroyed it. Wonder how much power it would take to break one of these things…
Are the “screaming hell worms” that Amanda sees (and Scar calls part of the process) the origin of the legend of the Frenzy? If most, or even some, echoes see them as part of their training that would likely get some rumors going.
😉
I love that Scar is just effing with the parents. He probably shouldn’t be, given the situation. But still.
I have to say I am with Scar on this one.
This is begging for an “over 9000!”