sci-fi authors love putting apostrophes in names to make them 'alien'. now we enter the next step: an alien name that has three letters, but eighteen apostrophes
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It's like they're trying to invent a new language based on single quotes and Welsh: 'S'u't w'y't' t'i' he''dd''iw'.
aug 31, 2025, 10:19 am • 0 0 • view
Author casting Apostrophe Splash on their work:
aug 31, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
Since I most naturally read an apostrophe as a glottal stop this is turning into some kinda fucked up chugging noise in my head
aug 31, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
alien leader b'''o'''''b'''''''''
aug 31, 2025, 1:32 am • 88 3 • view
The Whomst'd've'st'd'nt Empire
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
b3o5b9 for short
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Since apostrophes usually represent glottal stops, isn't this just the sound of a blowj...[SIGNAL TERMINATED]
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
this FEELS like something douglas adams did 45 years ago in a short story nobody read but I can't prove it
aug 31, 2025, 1:40 am • 5 0 • view
We send native Xhosa speakers to handle all negotiations
aug 31, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
you have to stridulate while pronouncing the name
aug 31, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
youtu.be/xnxtHGtYLsg?... aw yeah space funky b'o'b'
aug 31, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
Sci fi equivalent of blanking out character's naming in austen regency novel Mercernary B'''''' was last seen in Station S''''''' in the company of one A.I E'''''''
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view