They probably tripped and fell when trying to learn how to walk outside of the water the first few times. Or dropped an object. Or saw rain. You don’t last long on the surface without getting acquainted with gravity.
Yeah, they can’t have spent their entire lives under water or they literally would not have been able to walk. I imagine they’re sort of amphibious, though of course humans would know about them if they were on the surface too much. Meh. Being a writer myself, I try not to care about such details. You can’t write fantasy without at some point hitting ‘that wouldn’t actually work’… and ignoring it.
I imagine that their idea of “a person falling” is “sinking slowly” and there are other nuanced Sarnothi words for falling in different ways. A rock falls differently in water than a body that is mostly water, but it does fall.
They must have a word for being involuntarily taken somewhere by water, like in a whirlpool or a rip current, and that most likely can be combined with the word for “down” for an approximate meaning of “falling”.
Odd, I would assume the exact opposite. Bone-bone. Because if it were Bon-bon I’d presume it to be spelt like Bahn-bahn or just Bon-bon. OH typically expresses O as in Go, OE as in Toe, etc. “John” is actually an outlier, as the H serves no purpose (John and Jon sound the same).
Sole detail that makes me question this is no reaction from Selkie to the connotations of a name like “bone-bone”.
I wonder if meeting Bohn Bohn will make Todd realize that when other Sarnothi label all Jin’Sorai as drama queens and so forth, it’s not racism, just fact.
Here’s a thought. There’s no word for climb, so why would there be one for fall?
If you are completely immersed in water and you lose your footing, you don’t fall. You float down.
Rocks fall.
They probably tripped and fell when trying to learn how to walk outside of the water the first few times. Or dropped an object. Or saw rain. You don’t last long on the surface without getting acquainted with gravity.
Yeah, they can’t have spent their entire lives under water or they literally would not have been able to walk. I imagine they’re sort of amphibious, though of course humans would know about them if they were on the surface too much. Meh. Being a writer myself, I try not to care about such details. You can’t write fantasy without at some point hitting ‘that wouldn’t actually work’… and ignoring it.
I imagine that their idea of “a person falling” is “sinking slowly” and there are other nuanced Sarnothi words for falling in different ways. A rock falls differently in water than a body that is mostly water, but it does fall.
They must have a word for being involuntarily taken somewhere by water, like in a whirlpool or a rip current, and that most likely can be combined with the word for “down” for an approximate meaning of “falling”.
Is it pronounced “bon-bon” or “bone-bone”?
Given Dave tends to have Tensei be written mostly phonetically, I would assume bon-bon given that it’s spelled like John but with a B instead of a J.
Odd, I would assume the exact opposite. Bone-bone. Because if it were Bon-bon I’d presume it to be spelt like Bahn-bahn or just Bon-bon. OH typically expresses O as in Go, OE as in Toe, etc. “John” is actually an outlier, as the H serves no purpose (John and Jon sound the same).
Sole detail that makes me question this is no reaction from Selkie to the connotations of a name like “bone-bone”.
Hey. At least she isn’t encouraging pushing the matter… Now I bet they are gonna fit too many on one branch and see what happens.
It’s not that you couldn’t survive. It’s the injury you’ll have to survive with.
Oh gods, there are two of them.
I wonder if meeting Bohn Bohn will make Todd realize that when other Sarnothi label all Jin’Sorai as drama queens and so forth, it’s not racism, just fact.