Trying to keep and modify “giant” seems futile. In English the suffix “-ess” is how a generic noun is “marked” as female. It’s a deliberately sexist construction, assuming the default person is male.
I think we’d be better off using another synonym altogether or even inventing entirely new words.
@SmolChlo What’s that smell? Have you been bathing in olive oil again?
@foreverlurk I went looking for an online German translation of Gulliver’s Travels and I found this. Who knows what we’ll get this time?
@littlest-lily Due to the nature of their demise, they probably smell like farts.
@foreverlurk said:
I much prefer “lilliputienne”.
German doesn’t seem to like double consonants like those in “Lilliput.” Their words for male and female inhabitants of Lilliput are Liliputaner and Lililputanerin.
I bought the first hard copy of Milo Manara’s Gulliveriana I came across, which was in France. When Gulliveriana finally has her big disagreement with the Empress of Lilliput, she calls the latter a “Lilliputasse.”
I’m possessive of my pet ladies and I feel a responsibility to keep them in comfort, if not in privacy. I can be petty and mean at times, but it’s never cruelty for its own sake. My desires take precedence over their autonomy, and when I’m drunk and feeling gluttonous, regrettable accidents can happen. I prefer to be on speaking terms with those in my custody and I don’t like to see them bored or despondent, so I make an effort to be involved in their intellectual development.
@smolchlo Shouldn’t Chloe, who is the most familiar with her orifices, determine the answer to that question?
@i-am-insane “Why can’t I come with you to work?”
@The-Big-G As a veteran Size world-builder I’m guessing that they know how to safely reduce non-organic materials and they perfectly replicated their own house down to the appliances in miniature before she woke up.
@smolchlo You wanna play with giants, you need to know your limits.
