
Posts made by Olo
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RE: Do we really need the towel?
@foreverlurk Depends on whose bush we’re talking about.
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"A.I." animation of SMALL WORLD cover art
Rubberapex took the cover to Tabitha King’s Small World and animated it (probably using “A.I.”). Follow the link for a larger, higher-resolution version.
Small World cover by rubberapex
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RE: I wish there was a term for exclusively male giants
@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.”
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RE: I wish there was a term for exclusively male giants
@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?
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RE: I wish there was a term for exclusively male giants
German, another language with gendered nouns, has Riese and Riesin for male and female giants, respectively. Oddly, German uses the same word, Zwerg, to refer both to IRL people with dwarfism and to imaginary people who are Tom Thumb-sized. And yes, a female “dwarf” is a Zwergin.
(Tom Thumb is Daumling (Thumbling) in the original German Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm)
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Tall Glass of Iva
Tall Glass of Iva by Warin-the-Younger
Follow link for long caption/brief story