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by
Jack Bodett
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October 8 - October 9, 2025
I don't know a whole lot about languages, but I know the one you fellas call English and I call Kryptilic has simultaneously evolved on thousands of different planets.
Yeah, right.
That'll be sixteen-hundred quarkles,
No hyphen.
Coffee is pretty much a universal constant.
Sure it is.
"Two-hundred
No hyphen
chrome-trimmed, red vinyl booths
No comma
"Okay sounds like the power is good.
Okay,
little, fingertip-sized cup
No comma
three hundred quarkles in the till"
."
big, clear dome
No comma
long, silver object
No comma
everywhere I need it to.
"
position to snug it up.
"
space vessels. There were sleek, dart-shaped things that looked built for speed,
In atmosphere? Because in space, that would make no difference.
fire up the engine and let it idle
Spaceship engine is like truck engine.
the engine coughed to life with a deep, throaty rumble.
Like a truck engine.
"Here's the manual.
In the Roman alphabet, presumably.
"Does six-hundred sound fair?"
No hyphen
show called Mork and Mindy,
"
a golf-ball sized image
golf-ball-sized
"Here, here."
Hear
Sorry boys,
Sorry, boys,
bare, green shoulders
No comma
large, covered tray.
a three-day old beer.
three-day-old
for three-hundred years."
No hyphen
We gobbled it down and drown it
drowned
Piper pulled up the access codes Karlie sent
had sent
a little asteroid field,
Dumb space opera trope
lush, tropical island
No comma
Chelos, elder of Tortuvel Island."
So original for turtle people.
as she moved in a little circle around me."
No "
"We can set you up for Saturday,
There's a Saturday?
over six-thousand different worlds."
No hyphen
"Here here!"
Hear
"It's an Earth thing.
Finally, the author has remembered there should be cultural differences.
over me and Piper's heads.
my and [though it's correct for his dialect, so probably gets a pass]
