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Well, if your liege ask you something, you should be able to reply immediately. It would be impolite to make them wait for you to end chewing. I remember in som
by gostsamo 3y ago
Well, if your liege ask you something, you should be able to reply immediately. It would be impolite to make them wait for you to end chewing. I remember in some of the musketeer books described how Portos had cut a big part of a boar while dining with the king and when the king asked him something, he had to swallow the entire piece.
- JoelMcCracken 3y agoHuh, curious, I don't remember them ever dining with the king in the musketeer books.
- gostsamo 3y agoDon't have the text handy, but Wikipedia agrees with my memory: > His eating abilities even impress King Louis XIV during a banquet at Fontainebleau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porthos
- eru 3y agoDid you mean to write 'liege'?
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- gostsamo 3y agoYep, sorry. Edited now.
- eru 3y agoNo worries, I just wanted to see whether you wanted to take a subtle swing at medieval power structures.
- gostsamo 3y agoI have a subtle issue with homophones. :)
- eru 3y agoI blame English orthography for these troubles. English orthography also leads to endless stigmatisation of people who mix up the spellings of "their", "there" and "they're" or "you're" and "your" as if they were idiots or can't "think properly". Instead of the reality that they just don't display the class marker of having been drilled in this idiotic aspect of the writing system.
- gostsamo 3y agoWith me the issue is that being blind means that I listen to most words and the spelling is something which I don't always focus on unless necessary. Hence, two homophones are likely to be confused if not written often enough.
- eru 3y agoOh, yes, screen readers etc add a whole another level of complication to the mix.