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mantisgodsdomain · 2 months ago

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Fun note of the specific pronoun situation with the translation errors between Wasp and Bugnish: under normal circumstances, Jayde would get automatically assigned he/him in Bugnish, since she uses the standard "non-queen social bug" pronouns that roughly 95% of the Wasp Hive do, which get translated to drone pronouns in Bugnish due to a roughly century-old miscommunication. She gets assigned worker pronouns in Bugnish specifically because those are what Kabbu defaults to with social bugs, and other people picked it up from him during introductions. This Will Be A Point Of Confusion For Her Whenever She Asks About It.

#we speak #headcanons #conlang #anyways. fun fact the house's pronouns get jiggled around a lot more than it/its vi and they/them kabbu. jayde is a he now #hes still a worker this is just how bugnish has settled on translating wild swamplands pronouns #for related reasons “nonsocial bug” when translated from Wasp to Bugnish will become worker pronouns #queen is still queen though #we still need to work out what neopronouns we want to sub in for queen pronouns. or if we want to sub worker for a neopronoun #unfortunately we can't just write in conlang and expect people to understand it #our translation setup to english is still very weird #whenever we get to let zbt-159 interact with out of colony bugnish speakers they might get she/herred just because #yknow. we are already translating workergender as she/her.#bug fables #theres enough language barrier and weird interpretation that character pronouns will change from perspective to perspective #she/her in wasp pov because wasp kingdom socialbuggender is still technically a worker gender #he/him in everyone else's pov because the wasp queen's drones and generals use the same pronouns and some scribes got very confused #it prioritizes drone because that's Technically the higher rank and thus the one to use to avoid offence from guests #but drones don't realistically have much station so it's sort of like calling the entire wasp kingdom except for the queen manwhores

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