A Reluctant Ambassador from the Planet of Midnight
Several feuds have started as a result, and one or two of them have gotten quite ugly. Because why would any sentient race say something that means its exact opposite? To make any sense of it at all, we had to proceed from statements of the previous type, in which "universal" means, approx...
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| description | Several feuds have started as a result, and one or two of them have gotten quite ugly. Because why would any sentient race say something that means its exact opposite? To make any sense of it at all, we had to proceed from statements of the previous type, in which "universal" means, approximately, "we own it." [...]our attempt at a primary translation is this: I like that thing you made, so I'm going to claim it's mine. [...]every few years I come up with another statement about what fantasy and science fiction do. Sometimes, people are able to choose to do blue collar work over relatively unskilled labor, can get the education that allows them to do white collar work, or even end up in the highly skilled labor pool, the one in which you find doctors and lawyers. |
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