Spectacular Silver Earthling by Mara Lynn Johnstone

[profiterole_reads]

Spectacular Silver Earthling by Mara Lynn Johnstone was hilarious, except for a few sad parts. The robot Hubcap and the human Elliot are co-hosts of the Earth TV show "Odd Jobs Off-World". They face many dangers, including the mysterious space frenzy.

In addition to the humour, the best thing about this book is the First Contact with an alien species using colour communication. I especially liked that several of the aliens got POV chapters.

There are a few LGBT characters, but they're all very minor.

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From thefridayfive:

1. How many languages do you speak?

Mother tongue: French
Fluent: English, Spanish
Lower intermediate: Korean
Some basics: German, Latin, Japanese, Chinese

So the answer is either 4 or 8, depending on what you count. I learnt the European languages at school, the Asian languages on my own.

2. What is your mother tongue?

French

3. What is a language that you would like to learn and why?

I'm currently learning Korean because I love East Asian cultures and it's easier than learning Japanese or Chinese.

4. Does it bother you when people speak a language you don't know in front of you? Why or why not?

No, except if we were in the middle of a conversation and they start ignoring me, but that also bothers me in languages I know.

5. Speak to me.

Je vois que les gens ont interprété ça comme parler dans leur langue maternelle, donc voilà, je vous parle en français.

Comments

[anonne]

Ok, une question sur le français vu qu'il est mentionné ici… on se tutoie sur Dreamwidth ou on se vouvoie ou quoi ? (Sans doute il est possible de voir que j'évite toute utilisation de la deuxième personne dans ce commentaire… bref, je ne sais pas comment m'adresser à d'autres utilisateur·rice·s, sinon j'aurais dit “vu que tu as/vous avez parlé de la langue française”…)

[profiterole_reads]

On se tutoie. D'ailleurs, c'est intéressant sur le plan sociologique :
- les gens de langue maternelle française se tutoient sur les sites de fandom
- les gens qui ont le français comme langue étrangère ne posent généralement pas la question et nous vouvoient, alors on leur dit de nous tutoyer.

[anonne]

Dans ce cas je te remercie ! C'est bien sûr vraiment intéressant, surtout quand tu cites les sites de fandom en particulier, mais je suppose qu'il s'agit d'un sentiment d'appartenance à une communauté partagée. Et il est intéressant aussi de voir que ceux qui ont le français comme langue étrangère choisissent systématiquement le vouvoiement, parce que moi je suis toujours plutôt côté « il faut observer minutieusement pendant plusieurs semaines sans rien dire et puis sélectionner sa façon de parler basée sur ce que font les autres gens », haha.

[profiterole_reads]

Oui, si les gens se parlent dans les commentaires des sites de journaux, par exemple, ils se vouvoient. Il n'y a pas le même sentiment de communauté.

Moi aussi, je "lurke" longtemps avant de me mettre à utiliser un site.

[wpadmirer]

I speak English, primarily swear words, but I write better than I speak.

[profiterole_reads]

Yeah, I don't associate you with swear words from your posts.

[wpadmirer]

Yeah, it's mostly in conversations with Pat. We both swear like sailors so it phases neither of us. And yet, we both write well without swear words. I think we think swearing is our own secret language.

[haebin]

Wow, you speak so many languages!

[profiterole_reads]

Thanks! *blushes*

[haebin]

You are most welcome :) ♥

[verdande_mi]

I just speak Norwegian and English, and I understand Swedish and Danish. I am learning Finnish on Duolingo, but it is slowgoing! It's fun though, learning a new language.

[profiterole_reads]

Korean is slow-going and fun as well.

[tinny]

First Contact with an alien species using colour communication. I especially liked that several of the aliens got POV chapters.

For a second there I was thinking those chapters were just a few pages filled with blobs of color. ;DD

[profiterole_reads]

I would have liked that. But no, we get the aliens' thoughts in English. XD