1: Strange Companions (35.3)
The strangers speak the Mændægæ tongue to one another, which is a faerie language that is not translated in this story.
The strangers speak the Mændægæ tongue to one another, which is a faerie language that is not translated in this story.
Happy May Day everyone! Nashza Na (NAL) NACZA NA Basic greeting in NAL. Very equivalent to ‘Hello’. Q.F. (QF in Ondoko) is nautical acronyming of queikfaepo (kweek-FAY-poh), the metric hour of Kaian, more often just called faepo (FePo). It is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
wiquemiv (Ondoko) U IqÊmib (oo-whih-EE-kwhemn-EEBV) The sailor means the government type of committee dealing with the Eelpick continent; Ondo conducts many operations on a delegation and committee system.
whahth The Senator has something like a North Atagaian drawl on this word, which means ‘shit’. Nawwrmally pronounced with a strawwnger middle (oo-UH-thh) but naturally the accent Sonia hears gives it a certain charm.
Building “a house of stairs” is a turn of speech meaning to avoid an issue or to overachieve in the wrong direction. Te l be thelhbeo (Ondoko) (t-hehh-lhh-BAY-yoh) cross-dresser They probably call zem this because they believe zer stitched together[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
huittuu (HWEET-too) “snake” (Ondoko) A common pest of some Lajal ships.
In the rightmost panel: Fishing for others has been a bit of a moral challenge for our friend, but being forced to eat fish himself has pushed him to press for an alternative. Serk is a kind of preserved vegetable-seaweed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nefyookzo (nef-FYOOK-zoh) is a small measurement from the Jeenare metric system, a bit shorter than our centimeter. Between Lore and Ondoko empires sharing large portions of the same measurement system, you’d think they could get along better — but no.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…