Yeah, I'm opening a whole humongous can of worms by having Doug start pulling linguistic threads -- but they're far too obvious to ignore. I'm already using homophones and faulty translation magic to address a few things in chapter two; I'll probably keep plowing through using homophones and false cognates for as long as it remains plausible.
You have to understand here that this wasn't really part of the original plot, but something that popped up as I wrote as a consequence of Doug being Doug and asking logical questions about illogical things. I'm trying not to let it take things over, but for my own peace of mind I have to come up with some kind of reasonable answer to enough of this that I can allow myself to handwave whatever's left over -- if anything is left over by the time I'm done.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
You have to understand here that this wasn't really part of the original plot, but something that popped up as I wrote as a consequence of Doug being Doug and asking logical questions about illogical things. I'm trying not to let it take things over, but for my own peace of mind I have to come up with some kind of reasonable answer to enough of this that I can allow myself to handwave whatever's left over -- if anything is left over by the time I'm done.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.