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bonefall · 2 years ago

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how would warriors react to a human "speaking" their language by mimicking their meows

For the most part it's like a parrot grabbing individual words but not really meaning anything, if they actually recognize a word at all.

"Mewmew? Myamyamya?" They're obviously not saying anything, it's sort of close to "mew" (baby), but they aren't leaning on the vowel correctly, followed by gibberish. It's kind of annoying actually.

The Warriors do recognize "pspsps" though, as a sign of human friendliness.

#There is a common problem in all animal xenofiction with humans about language #Y'know. Why don't the pets just speak to humans?#The easiest answer is that the animal and the human have an incompatible language #The answer that I would prefer is that the Lake Cats are a subspecies of domestic cat capable of TRUE language with grammar and syntax #And the Park Cats were either taken from that population centuries ago or evolved it independently further south #And most kittypets are just-below that speaking on the same level as a raven or chimpanzee #Bonefall Billystorm being an example of a real average cat #But I don't want to loop back around to saying kittypets are lesser so. Right now I'm just keeping it vague #Clan culture

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