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A quote from Arioch that I'd found in the Q&A thread gave me an idea. The quote:

I suspect that a lot of what the Loroi would find funny is slapstick, wacky non-sequitur Monty Python type stuff.

So, taking a few liberties with just how Soia Trade is conjugated:

...

Shortly after the annexation of Taben (more like 'conquest' if you ask some of them):

[a Taben resistance member, 'Toroin Narrat Ziradin', is spray-painting a protest message across the wall of a back alley. An Imperial patrol walks up, two Soroin led by a Mizol Romessat].

Romessat: <What's this, then? "Mizolon Bazen à Minzanel?" 'She who is watched, the house they go?'>

Narrat: (speaking aloud, nervously) "It saying 'Mizols go home.'"

Romessat: <No it doesn't.> [The two Soroin lean back against the other wall, getting comfortable.] <Come on, what's Trade for 'Sentinels'?>

Narrat: "...Mizolon?"

Romessat: [telekinetically tweaks the Narrat's ear]: <Plural! Come on, try again!>

Narrat: "Augh! I meaning 'Mizols!'"

Romessat: <Correct!> [writes on the wall] <Now, the word for 'home'?>

Narrat: "I writing 'Minzanel'!"

Romessat: <Ahh, but is this home a specific structure?>

Narrat: "...no?"

Romessat: <So you use the...?>

Narrat: "Indefinite word?"

Romessat: <Which is...?>

Narrat: "Minzan!"

Romessat: <Good!> [writes on wall] <Now, when a group all go, it is written...>

Narrat: "Baze!"

Romessat: [Aims the spray-paint can at the Narrat threateningly] <Imperative form!>

Narrat: [eyes flinch closed] "No instead... 'Bazero'?>

Romessat: <Yes! 'Mizols Minzan Bazero.'> [Writes on wall, steps back, admires handiwork] <Now write it out a hundred times.>

Narrat: "I'd nev— or I meaning 'Yes officer'!"

Romessat: <If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your hair off.> [Marches away]

*Hours pass*
Narrat: [collapses with exhaustion after writing the last letter] "All is being done now!"

Soroin: <Right. Now don't do it again!> [exits]

[Second patrol walks up, two different Soroin led by one Teidar]

[Soroins stare in shock; Teidar's eye twitches]

Narrat: "...did I got a word not right?"

[Narrat exits, Stage Right, pursued by Teidar]

"Life of Narrat"...

Wasn´t the UFO-scene happening right after that (pursuit)?

Narrat Ziradin, meaning 'Noble.' As close of a translation as I can get for 'Brian.'

And the UFO scene would just be a very confused Narrat Ziradin getting taken for a joyride by two Historians on their first (and last, as it turns out) unsupervised shuttle flight).

[Ziradin stumbles out of the smoking wreckage, dazed.]

Bystander: <You lucky plunger...>

"As an online discussion about humor grows longer, the probability of a Monty Python reference approaches 1.":)


Do Loroi care that much about grammar? I assumed they consider spoken and written language secondary to Sanzai.

Urist wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:02 pm

Narrat Ziradin, meaning 'Noble.' As close of a translation as I can get for 'Brian.'

Nice1.

Urist wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:02 pm

And the UFO scene would just be a very confused Narrat Ziradin getting taken for a joyride by two Historians on their first (and last, as it turns out) unsupervised shuttle flight).

Good one - didn´t see that coming!
...Historians, we haven´t seen a "fleshy one" yet, right? Now i imagine them like the UFO-puppets, with those urine-bags dangling around them...

Also: Cool engine sound for a reactionless drive! (btw i have to look up ze internetz, if the english version has the same sound... Edit: Yep!)

Urist wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:02 pm

[Ziradin stumbles out of the smoking wreckage, dazed.]

Bystander: <You lucky plunger...>

A bit larger hole, a bit more carnage and smoke...

How do you quell the flames of Loroi menfolk?

What do Teidars and terrorists have in common?

Why do Loroi hate Umiak?

In the Loroi Fleet
Still Storm: Fireblade, care to explain why the media room is on fire!
Alex: We were going over earth media. We found a documentary on spiders.

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Admeral Click CLack: Care to explain why we need to replace all of the monitors in the interpretation room again?
CLICKY CLICKY: A Heavy Support Soldier unit was in the room as I went through the captured Hugh-Mons database. I found videos on spiders.