• nxdefiant@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    The rat…person would call themselves a word in their language that would translate to man language as “hu-rat”. the man would thus be a man-rat.

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      1 year ago

      But the human calls the rat-person a ratman because they seem to be something between a human and a rat. The human would call a regular rat a rat. Why would the rat-person call the human a man-rat, if the human is a regular human? Who would he call man then?