Language barriers between animals who can acquire small human vocabularies, and humans themselves, must be interesting things to be sure.
Being a sucker for linguistic fic, I would love to see more on interspecies language barriers! One of my roommates had a pet cockateel, which gave me an appreciation for the way birds communicate, though to date, ironically, I've only used it to help me write Cybertronian body language, of all things. But your Moril had that sort of headstrong five year-old feel to her - she has a place, she feels she knows what it is, but she hasn't really learned to read Saruman well beyond the confines of their flock-leader/flock-member command/obey relationship. That strikes me as bird-like, even if Moril doesn't seem half as imperious as the cockateel.
I envision this exchange as being rather frustrating for the craban, in addition to depressing.
That certainly came through strongly. Moril's like a kicked dog: "What did I do?!"
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Date: 2012-03-21 11:22 pm (UTC)Being a sucker for linguistic fic, I would love to see more on interspecies language barriers! One of my roommates had a pet cockateel, which gave me an appreciation for the way birds communicate, though to date, ironically, I've only used it to help me write Cybertronian body language, of all things. But your Moril had that sort of headstrong five year-old feel to her - she has a place, she feels she knows what it is, but she hasn't really learned to read Saruman well beyond the confines of their flock-leader/flock-member command/obey relationship. That strikes me as bird-like, even if Moril doesn't seem half as imperious as the cockateel.
I envision this exchange as being rather frustrating for the craban, in addition to depressing.
That certainly came through strongly. Moril's like a kicked dog: "What did I do?!"