"So, monkeyboy." The griffin sidled up to Garrick. "How do you hunt?"
"You to ask me, or to ask all human?"
"I'm just kinda curious how such a fragile-looking thing as you could hit top-tier predator on your world."
"Long old time human, to scare, to injure prey, to run, to not stop. Last to be most important. I to add not as fragile as to look." Garrick did his best to get across the concept of persistence hunting. "To track prey to make smart. Smart to make tool. Tool to make prey to collapse soon-soon." He takes a breath. "We to learn to make kill fast. Prey no to suffer, just to die."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
"You to ask me, or to ask all human?"
"I'm just kinda curious how such a fragile-looking thing as you could hit top-tier predator on your world."
"Long old time human, to scare, to injure prey, to run, to not stop. Last to be most important. I to add not as fragile as to look." Garrick did his best to get across the concept of persistence hunting. "To track prey to make smart. Smart to make tool. Tool to make prey to collapse soon-soon." He takes a breath. "We to learn to make kill fast. Prey no to suffer, just to die."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll