<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068682#msg14068682">Quote from: wander on 14-04-2018, 04:08:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">What really threw me off and probably will the most is stuff like when you used 'Mek' rather than 'mechanic'. The speech pattern is okay, though using contracted words in that matter or unique terms for things makes it that bit more incomprehensible. I may have clicked on sooner if there was a word before 'Mek' like 'A Mek will be' or 'The Mek will be'. The former doesn't connote a specific individual however and probably would have been better.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's a very good point. I'll avoid doing that in future. In the other thread, she made a reference to an actual Traveller beastie (a kind of Aslani pet). I'll stick to using stock English without contractions, though, from here on out.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068682#msg14068682">Quote from: wander on 14-04-2018, 04:08:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I talk with people who have English as a second language and have similar speech patterns. Usually thinking the dialogue aloud helps better than pure visually reading it. The most common thing I come across is IRL, such people tend to skip the word 'the' in sentences. Which totally contradicts my last point, lol, though if 'mechanic' was mentioned I'd have figured the sentence out right away.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It depends on their first language. Very few languages use articles (a/an/the/some/one/his/hers/theirs/etc) the way English does. Sorry, linguistics is kind of a hobby for me. :) Many languages have the verb at the end, and those people have a terrible time learning to interrupt in English conversation, because we have the subject and verb up front, so we can easily figure out what the other person is about to say as soon as we hear the first half of a sentence. In many languages the verb comes at the end, which makes it almost impossible to coherently interrupt.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068682#msg14068682">Quote from: wander on 14-04-2018, 04:08:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh, the one thing that confused me was what 'Fa' means... I'm gathering it's a word for 'yes' or 'no', though I can't tell which. Again, it's a unique word for something else, so it throws me.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I was trying to do something that sounded like 'Feh,' but wasn't. I'll stick to normal words in future. :)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068682#msg14068682">Quote from: wander on 14-04-2018, 04:08:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I like Greg's way of talking however! I'm just making a few points to make it easier for us to understand it. ^^</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Will do my best in future! Her behavior is meant to be alien and confusing (I'm trying really hard not to have her be a human in a dog suit) but people should see patterns that make sense over time. For example, the petting thing. There was a VERY different interaction between Max and Ghrriegh earlier from the interaction between Adrianna and Ghrriegh...And it had very different results.<br/><br/>Ghrriegh is a canid alien, not a dog, but a LOT of problems between Humaniti and Vargr in the Traveller universe seem to be because humans want to assume that Vargr act like pet dogs.<br/><br/>Things would probably work out better if they didn't think of Vargr as pet dogs OR as wolves, but instead as well-organized feral strays. But most people don't have much experience with feral strays.<br/><br/>I have tried to dig through all of the Vargr lore and build a reasonable set of behaviors for Ghrriegh. I'm probably going to toss more hints at people who know her from her past, but Vargr have a reputation as being confusing and kind of unpredictable for a reason. It basically has to do with human assumptions about what's 'normal.'<br/><br/>Ghrriegh makes perfect sense to Ghrriegh. ;)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068698#msg14068698">Quote from: Triggvi on 14-04-2018, 04:18:25</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The part that throw me was Adrianna <del>was making an overture of friendship to greg</del> TRIED TO PET GHRRIEGH and her spitting it back in her face and telling adrianna her priority is to survive. Was that your intent or was it just trying to get out of coming through with adrianna's return favor for help greg with the air/raft?<br/><br/>I am trying to make sure we are clear. It felt like a misunderstanding of adrianna's post.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It's totally not me-the-player misunderstanding Adrianna. It's Ghrriegh being Ghrriegh. If Adrianna is upset, that's okay, so long as we're both communicating and not upset here, right? :)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068794#msg14068794">Quote from: wander on 14-04-2018, 04:56:53</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Greg's unreadable, never know how they're gonna react next!  XD<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068825#msg14068825">Quote from: Triggvi on 14-04-2018, 05:08:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I like Greg as a character. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14068864#msg14068864">Quote from: Voidknight on 14-04-2018, 05:23:00</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm a fan of Greg too, I took the focus on survival as being more of a neutral answer, than a slap to the face. She's concerned about survival, not nessecarily unwilling to help- but a bit stressed out at the thought she's not confident in the ship.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Thanks, folks! :D I'm happy people like her, and Void, yes, you nailed it. She's actually super-concerned about survival. Consider that she's just been thrown into a crew of (mostly) strangers, with a ship she knows next to nothing about except it came already damaged, and they have less than a day to get it spaceworthy.  Beyond that, it's a more neutral answer (although her behavior about the petting attempt isn't neutral at all).