 February 8, 2012 - 1:20pm | I just noticed in the false Yaz stereotype thread that I had had the yazirian steward "leave a young yazirian 'hanging'" to teach him self reliance. Clearly humans and yazirians both use this expression with similar meaning attached. Although the evolution of it in Yaz society stems from a youthful cub asking to be lifted down from a branch when he is old enough and strong enough to jump or even glide down himself thus the elder "leaves him handing" literally. In human society the expression is more figurative. Edit: Basicly you're looking for a saying that will be said by two or more races and mean different things to each of them. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 19, 2012 - 12:50pm | High five and give me five has found some use among dralsites bit is not really a cross species saying as it is an adopted saying by dralasite from humans. One of my PC's use to hold up five hands in the air and say, "Give Id five!" Then laugh uproariously. It really was a stupid joke but he always got a kick out of doing it. At any rate more than just a few dralasite have picked IP on this saying and trying to do various plays on words with it to be funny. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 12, 2012 - 9:27pm | The dral says, "I see you humans can only give two." Then laughs out loud leaving the human wondering if he was the brunt of an inside joke. Drals hardly do this to yaz's. |
September 9, 2012 - 9:14am | Humans who spend their lives walking around on the ground use the phrase, "What's up?" But yazirians who are not ground bound had a different perspective and natually evolved the saying, "What's down?" Or, "What's going down?" Though "What's going down?" has a bit more of a negative connotation to it for a yazirian. In fact if a human ever asked a yaz, "What going down?" He's very likely to say, "You are." And mean it as a put down. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 9, 2012 - 8:26pm | I just noticed in the false Yaz stereotype thread that I had had the
yazirian steward "leave a young yazirian 'hanging'" to teach him self
reliance. Clearly humans and yazirians both use this expression with
similar meaning attached. Although the evolution of it in Yaz society
stems from a youthful cub asking to be lifted down from a branch when he
is old enough and strong enough to jump or even glide down himself thus
the elder "leaves him handing" literally. In human society the
expression is more figurative. This supports our use of the term hangers to refer to toddler age yaz. Looks like your thoughts are bubbling around in my subconscious and coming out months later for expanded purposes. This is a good thing.  -iggy |
December 27, 2012 - 5:24pm | Ok just reread a slighly off color comment in the mega corps project and it gave me the following: "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine." meaning: I'll do you a favor you do me a favor "I can scratch your back?" or "Want me to scratch your back?" or "Got and itch you need scratched?" its not these exact quotes that is the saying its simply the offer to scratch that is the saying and it refers to sexual intimacy as they yazirians like it a little rough and if your back is bleeding then you had a good time. Now naturally enough humans used their saying with yazirians and... it got interpreted as a proposition for sex which was quite startling to the yazirian especially if say both the yaz and the human involved in were male. Needless to say yazirians almost always find this human saying distrubing and or repulsive. Dralasites like to engineer an unsuspecting human to say it to a yazirian as a joke if they can. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
