FROM: dagger@cdc.org
He said I wouldn't reveal his height, I said I would, he called me a loser. Who's the loser now?
You just don't do that, you know? It's very rude.
Of course. Nobody listens to me as it is, I have to make examples.
Continue that line of discussion and you're dead before the day is out.
I'm on to you, Peanut Sauce.
Soggy Vegetable.
I was cursing you in a different language, it's translating badly.
Human languages are so limiting.
Which is likely twice as weird for non-humans, because there's way more offensive things that don't involve genitals.
Anything wet.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasuretimeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2014-10-29 03:31 pm (UTC)I feel like there is context here that I've missed. How does calling someone short prove a point?
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 03:53 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
He said I wouldn't reveal his height, I said I would, he called me a loser. Who's the loser now?
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 05:48 am (UTC)Ah, it all makes sense now.
[Not really, but he's refraining from actually speaking his mind.]
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 05:55 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
You just don't do that, you know? It's very rude.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 05:59 am (UTC)Yes, I would definitely agree. After all, you're only trying to look out for our best interests, correct?
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:04 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Of course. Nobody listens to me as it is, I have to make examples.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:11 am (UTC)Not even your fellow instructors?
FROM: wurstel.ferdinand@cdc.org
Actually now that I'm thinking about it, you remind me of a character from a book I once read.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:16 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Continue that line of discussion and you're dead before the day is out.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:18 am (UTC)FROM: wurstel.ferdinand@cdc.org
Ah... which one? Or is it both, Sir?
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:27 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
I'm on to you, Peanut Sauce.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:29 am (UTC)Peanut Sauce?
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:31 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Soggy Vegetable.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:33 am (UTC)With... all due respect. A peanut is not the same as a vegetable.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:34 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
I was cursing you in a different language, it's translating badly.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:38 am (UTC)Oh.
FROM: wurstel.ferdinand@cdc.org
Understood.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:43 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Human languages are so limiting.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:50 am (UTC)In a way they are very crude. Most insults involve some form of genitalia or bodily function.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 07:48 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Which is likely twice as weird for non-humans, because there's way more offensive things that don't involve genitals.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 05:25 pm (UTC)Ah, like how pointing is considered rude in some cultures? What qualifies as offensive to you, if you don't mind my curiosity?
no subject
Date: 2014-10-31 03:55 am (UTC)FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Anything wet.
no subject
Date: 2014-10-31 04:07 am (UTC)Ah, I see.
FROM: wurstel.ferdinand@cdc.org
...How unfortunate that you seem to be stuck in a human-like body, then. Since they're comprised of around seventy percent water.