I wonder if it is an artifact of translation that so many of us give our home planets the name of 'Earth', or that few of us are star-faring.
I'm also from an Earth, with humans, though I have an outsider's view of them. I'm not human, or land-dwelling but I work with them. The name for the part of the ocean I live in is the North Atlantic Ocean, off the shore of the city of New York.
[And S'reee trying to say human-language place names drives home that her voice doesn't sound very human -- a lot of the consonants are half-clicked, and vowels are dropped or held too long]
Human societies are... oh, the words in the Speech are sevarfrith and asdurrafrith for short. Sevarfrith means that wizards don't practice their art openly in those societies, though usually their kin-groups will know. Asdurrafrith means that a species as a whole hasn't met other self-aware species, and may not be prepared for it.
In the Sea's name, it feels weird introducing humans to this, even if you all are here on a world that is astahfrith. I can't shake the feeling that I'm breaking the rules.
[voice]
I'm also from an Earth, with humans, though I have an outsider's view of them. I'm not human, or land-dwelling but I work with them. The name for the part of the ocean I live in is the North Atlantic Ocean, off the shore of the city of New York.
[And S'reee trying to say human-language place names drives home that her voice doesn't sound very human -- a lot of the consonants are half-clicked, and vowels are dropped or held too long]
Human societies are... oh, the words in the Speech are sevarfrith and asdurrafrith for short. Sevarfrith means that wizards don't practice their art openly in those societies, though usually their kin-groups will know. Asdurrafrith means that a species as a whole hasn't met other self-aware species, and may not be prepared for it.
In the Sea's name, it feels weird introducing humans to this, even if you all are here on a world that is astahfrith. I can't shake the feeling that I'm breaking the rules.