Hmm... Well, for starters are you talking a furry from
a universe or world or dimension where either they
speak our languages, or something? If they speak
English (in my case), I suppose one of the things I'd
be curious to learn is how they refer to themselves as
a people. I mean, we refer to ourselves as Humanity,
or Mankind, etc. What would THEY refer to themselves
as? what's their analogue for the word 'humanity'?
If they're from a completely alien world, well.. that
just brings up a whole host of conflicts and problems
to be solved, not the least of which would be language
barrier. After all, it wouldn't be good to greet an
ambassador from an alien world with a smile and a
handshake, if in THEIR world the showing of teeth,
solid eyecontact, and the outstretching of a grasping
limb is usually the prelude to a physical assault. (I
think we can all relate to The Simpsons, with Apu's
'apology' pose that looks like he's going to strangle
the person he's apologizing to)
I'll have to go through Jim's characters and see which
one I'd like to talk to though. ;) XD
*fades back into the shadows for the time being*
Kaleb Fenoir
--- Scrapper Black Dragon <scrapperbd_at_yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I was thinking about my own statement about this
> forum
> being further reaching than a single country.
>
> How would we (you) deal with meeting a furry - that
> presumably came from another planet, dimension or
> where
> ever?
>
> What sort of things would you try and convey or
> learn.
> Remember what Jim was saying about having more
> animal
> characteristics and not just people who look
> different.
> Would they have the same social structure? How do
> they
> relate to other species, genders? How would you try
> to
> communicate with them?
>
> Pick an example from Jim's characters and let's hear
> how
> you'd deal with them. The 'stranger' characters are
> probably going to be more interesting examples!
>
> Scrapper, Black Dragon, acknowledging the English
> language
> is probably pretty useless outside Earth.
>
>
>
>
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