That clinic in particular is quite cool. It's run by a woman that originally lived in Oregon, she stayed when she realized that there wasn't any healthcare, and it's an almost all volunteer clinic.
"Grappe de bananes" is awesome. I love foreign languages.
Good translation sites are VERY hard to find, and holy crap connotations. Most sites don't give anything past a single foreign word that never seems to translate back the same.
/loves some word-history. My sociology of health care class went over why the Battle of Hastings determined what swearing sounds like in English. Nutshell version, the upper class spoke French, the lower class Brits spoke German, so German was the rough/"ugly" language of cursing.
"I've heard of that! Was it actually seriously considered, or was it a rhetorical argument?" Quite seriously considered. If you want to cry about utterly inhumane treatment, go look up 'the Hottentot Venus,' and compare HER treatment to the treatment of female apes. Lady-apes were dressed up and called demure and sketched admiringly, the male apes were strong and virile and oh-so-intelligent. Ms. Venus (I don't think her true name was ever recorded) was forced against her will to show her "unusual" genitals to people. That particular ethnic group had elongated labia. Her body was kept after she died, too, and... yeah. History breaks my heart nine times for every time it makes me love humanity.
"I can definitely see her reaction being one of overwhelming jealousy, for sure. I also like the idea of her being brought over not because Laurence needs help - and Granby presumably asks her - but because she can therefore prove her superiority to him by teaching him something he should already know." Eventually she's quite fond of him. Again. He's not a competition to her (if it's not done, I'll elaborate on some differences in fire), Granby is extremely proud of her for playing along (and bribes her judiciously, probably, it does seem a useful strategy for special occasions), and Laurence isn't a bad dragon. Odd, yes, but he means that she FINALLY gets to have a 'really fun' formation to play with to set even MORE things on fire.
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Date: 2011-03-02 02:44 am (UTC)"Grappe de bananes" is awesome. I love foreign languages.
Good translation sites are VERY hard to find, and holy crap connotations. Most sites don't give anything past a single foreign word that never seems to translate back the same.
/loves some word-history. My sociology of health care class went over why the Battle of Hastings determined what swearing sounds like in English. Nutshell version, the upper class spoke French, the lower class Brits spoke German, so German was the rough/"ugly" language of cursing.
"I've heard of that! Was it actually seriously considered, or was it a rhetorical argument?" Quite seriously considered. If you want to cry about utterly inhumane treatment, go look up 'the Hottentot Venus,' and compare HER treatment to the treatment of female apes. Lady-apes were dressed up and called demure and sketched admiringly, the male apes were strong and virile and oh-so-intelligent. Ms. Venus (I don't think her true name was ever recorded) was forced against her will to show her "unusual" genitals to people. That particular ethnic group had elongated labia. Her body was kept after she died, too, and... yeah. History breaks my heart nine times for every time it makes me love humanity.
"I can definitely see her reaction being one of overwhelming jealousy, for sure. I also like the idea of her being brought over not because Laurence needs help - and Granby presumably asks her - but because she can therefore prove her superiority to him by teaching him something he should already know." Eventually she's quite fond of him. Again. He's not a competition to her (if it's not done, I'll elaborate on some differences in fire), Granby is extremely proud of her for playing along (and bribes her judiciously, probably, it does seem a useful strategy for special occasions), and Laurence isn't a bad dragon. Odd, yes, but he means that she FINALLY gets to have a 'really fun' formation to play with to set even MORE things on fire.