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I think Alex may have moved slightly, but not much. I believe you're looking at the wrong chair. You can see it in the last panel page 113, to the right of Talon's. Also in the first panel of 114. It faces the right-hand side of the cockpit, towards the screen on the wall.Krulle wrote:Edit: I find the last image a bit... weird from perspective. For Alexander's hand and her hand to be across her chest, Alexander must've jumped sides of the shuttle (you can still see a pilot chair in the background, so she's still on the starboard side of the gangway), and is now standing also on the starboard side between Talon and Beryl...
Arioch wrote:{snip}3. No, they're not mixed up. Doranzer and Tenoin have already appeared in various places in the comic. The Tenoin are not infantry, they're pilots.{endsnip}
GabrielGABFonseca wrote:Ok people, I have a new game for you: It is called What is Beryl Feeling? - it's a very simple game, we simply have to guess what our dear Tozet Beryl is feeling as of the end of page 116!
I think it would ultimately translate to enlisted officers being squarely in the Torrai-equivalent category, with unenlisted being Soroin and Tenoin, depending on branch.icekatze wrote:hi hi
That certainly is an interesting misunderstanding. I would almost wager that Enzin would need to explain the nature of TCA ranks, and that he is closer to the lower end of the hierarchy when it comes to officers. Although, I'm not sure what the Loroi would think of the concept of enlisted ranks. The Loroi have plenty of different castes, but would enlisted ranks seem like having civilians in the positions of warriors?
What do you (and others, including Arioch) think the fundamental difference in pronunciation is between the two? I "hear" it the same way when I read the comic.CF2 wrote:Funny thing about Talon's manner of speaking, she seems to have accidentally pronounced "humanity" correctly rather than saying "humaniti" like others unfamiliar with the word.
I think would sound like the difference between human-eat-ee rather than human-itty.cacambo43 wrote:What do you (and others, including Arioch) think the fundamental difference in pronunciation is between the two? I "hear" it the same way when I read the comic.
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Alex was taught the Orchus' dialect of the Trade Language, while the Loroi speak their own version of it, so he will have sounded a bit 'foreign' to Loroi ears. The good thing is that it doesn't appear to be an insurmountable issue.CF2 wrote:I think would sound like the difference between human-eat-ee rather than human-itty.cacambo43 wrote:What do you (and others, including Arioch) think the fundamental difference in pronunciation is between the two? I "hear" it the same way when I read the comic.
CJSF
Not sure what changes you mean. If you're referring to the new "charge up front" feature, that applies only to those who charge per month, and it only affects new patrons; existing patrons are still only charged on the first of each month. Outsider charges per page, but Patreon only bills the patrons once a month.cacambo43 wrote:What's the plan for meting out the Patreon changes, Arioch? Are you going to take a lump sum or spread things out?
<humaniti> /humaniti/cacambo43 wrote:What do you (and others, including Arioch) think the fundamental difference in pronunciation is between the two? I "hear" it the same way when I read the comic.CF2 wrote:Funny thing about Talon's manner of speaking, she seems to have accidentally pronounced "humanity" correctly rather than saying "humaniti" like others unfamiliar with the word.
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Eh? If I'm reading that bottom one right (not a sure thing), that bears no resemblance to how I say "Humanity".Hālian wrote:<humaniti> /humaniti/cacambo43 wrote:What do you (and others, including Arioch) think the fundamental difference in pronunciation is between the two? I "hear" it the same way when I read the comic.CF2 wrote:Funny thing about Talon's manner of speaking, she seems to have accidentally pronounced "humanity" correctly rather than saying "humaniti" like others unfamiliar with the word.
CJSF
<Humanity> /hjuˈmænɪti/
Yes, his moment of insecurity aside, it's not in Alex's interest to go into detail about how junior he really is.icekatze wrote:But seriously though, if I were Alex, I would be trying to dodge this line of conversation as hard as possible and get to the star maps.
Since they assume he is a ship captain, detailed navigational knowledge would not be unusual for him to have.icekatze wrote:On an unrelated note: How common is it for a non-pilot to have lots of jump-lanes memorized? I'm not sure if Talon is making a relatively safe wager by asking if he's a pilot, based on information like that; or if she's really going by intuition alone.
Blame Wiktionary. *shrug*cacambo43 wrote:Eh? If I'm reading that bottom one right (not a sure thing), that bears no resemblance to how I say "Humanity".Hālian wrote:<humaniti> /humaniti/cacambo43 wrote:What do you (and others, including Arioch) think the fundamental difference in pronunciation is between the two? I "hear" it the same way when I read the comic.
CJSF
<Humanity> /hjuˈmænɪti/
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As a currently-serving officer, I can say that this is not the case at all. While the peasant/gentry connotations have indeed been long-discarded, the enlisted/officer division is central to the way the military operates and is as artificial as any other pay scale one would find in corporate America. The officer and enlisted ranks evolved with the industrial revolution to a more blue/white collar differentiation. Even in high-tech operations like mine where everyone is doing white collar work, the distinction still exists in the form of a technician/project lead relationship.Arioch wrote:As far as I am aware, a modern non-commissioned officer (corporal, sergeant, etc.) has exactly the same responsibility for the men under his command as any commissioned officer does. Our division between enlisted and commissioned ranks is largely artificial and is a relic of traditional land armies in which there was a clear social and class division between the gentry/knights/officers and the peasants/levies/conscripts/enlisted. The Loroi wouldn't have any trouble understanding this concept, but it isn't useful to them either in social terms or in the context of an ultra-tech military. The enlisted/commissioned barrier is already starting to show its obsolescence in our modern militaries, in democratic societies that no longer mirror the gentry/peasant class division, and in increasingly technologically advanced forces that require ever more professional and well-trained and -educated soldiers, especially in services like air forces and navies in which the "rank and file" structure of infantry has less relevance.