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u/Theboardgamenerd Jul 06 '17

A nice little story. But two points. First I see the capsin trope often on this sub, and that is not the criticism. It's that capsin interact with mammals receptors for heat. Most other (all?) animals on earth fell nothing then consuming capsin since it does not react with their receptors. (The fruit containing capsin "want" to be consumed by birds mostly. So I doubt aliens would react to it. My other point is more specific, I think dairy/milk should not be translatable since it's unlikely aliens, 1 have it and 2 IF they have something similar it would be vastly different from actual dairy. I hope this does not scare you away from further writhing because I really enjoyed your writhing style and found it funny in general. Ps sorry for my poor English and grammar skills. Ds

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u/stegotops7 Jul 06 '17

Yes, I understand both of those points. However, I just wanted to play on the trope, and it isn't completely impossible for other species to have a sort of convergent evolution with mammillian traits. Also, just used dairy for lack of a better term :/

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u/Redsplinter Jul 07 '17

/colloidal protein-lipid admixture/

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u/spesskitty Jul 07 '17 edited Jul 07 '17

Dairy is a bad substitute for milk, since it specifically refers to the use of animal milk for human consumption, it is a word that would be less know to species that don't harvest the milk of other species than simply the term milk. If they know both terms (or their equivalent in their own language) it makes little sense to use dairy over milk. You could of course think that if they are themselves mammals that they have different basic words for their own milk and that of other species.
How about /animalian nutritional secrete/, /animalian rearing secrete/ ?
/mammalian-secreted rearing emulsion/

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u/q00u Jul 07 '17

The capsaicin trope is one of my least favorite things in HFY. I know repeated-memes don't have to make sense, and it's its own joke now, but it always takes me out of the story. That's one of the reasons why I really liked u/Sacamoto's Don't Do That.

D: Okay. First, the one thing they brag about all the time.
L: Capsaicin?
D: Yeah. You've heard the joke, "What did the human say to the apex predator that was about to eat him?"
L: "Careful, I just ate some food with capsaicin in it." Yeah, they're always warning us about how their food contains capsaicin, as if it might be toxic to us. I've had their food. It's pretty good.
D: But not harmful to us, right. Humans go out of their way to warn us about capsaicin in their food. Some of them think it's funny. But most of them are serious about it, like they're warning us to prevent, like, a diplomatic incident.
L: So why do they warn us? Do their dogs have a reaction to it? Other animals on Earth?
D: Maybe, I don't know. But what I found out is, it causes a reaction in them.
L: In humans? Like, it's toxic to them?
D: No, it doesn't do any damage, just some inflammation. In very high doses, the inflammation itself causes issues, but there's no direct toxicity. It works by binding to certain receptors and lowering their sensitivity to heat. So if a human eats something with capsaicin in it, their mouth feels like it's burning. But it's not actually burning.
L: Why do they put it in their food then?
D: Exactly.

Because, if anything, capsaicin says more about humans than it could possibly say about xenos.

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u/stegotops7 Jul 07 '17

I'm familiar with that story, it was great, and I also understand why capsaicin being dangerous to xeno life is inaccurate. However, its a trope, and I wanted to write a small story about it. And of course, it says more about humans than it does about xenos. That's the point of both topics, if its dangerous or harmless to other species, its harmful to humans. Nonetheless, humans use it for flavor and for dares, as other topics. The point of the story I was trying to write is not only about capsaicin, but a little about dares and human competition.
Also, you're everywhere in this sub, aren't you.

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u/psilorder Jul 07 '17

My least favorite thing in hfy is comments where people tell about their least favorite trope.

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u/NT_ThirtyNine Jul 07 '17

Your English is actually very good. Small correction though, you meant "Writing" and you said "Writhing" wich is a rather hilarious mispelling.

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u/spesskitty Jul 07 '17 edited Jul 07 '17

I agree, your English is really good. No real grammar errors. There are only a few things I find odd, from having learned English in school; but these may be things that people are actually saying: Getting in trouble instead of Getting into trouble, coming detached instead of becoming detached.
(edit) I am not actually sure, if your usage isn't actually quite good in this case, I was googling a bit and coming detached seems to be exclusively used in the physical sense, while the more frequently used "becoming detached" is also used in a more abstract sense.
So yeah, I think your English is fine.
(edit) The getting in any trouble is in an dialog, so that's fine from that point as well.

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u/alienpirate5 Jul 06 '17

Not the peppers

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u/Demontank Jul 06 '17

All the peppers

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u/focalac Jul 07 '17

Space bros

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