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Post by Cloud on May 28, 2010 6:03:20 GMT -5
Exactly, Ducky.
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Post by Ten on May 31, 2010 8:13:02 GMT -5
hm. I'll take another look at this.
Tan comes from the word tannum, which is crushed oak bark used for leather tanning. These cats wouldn't know about that -- but they wouldn't know about gold or silver either, and yet we can use those as prefixes to reference color only. Tan isn't a very specific word, as there are several different shades it could refer to -- but that's the case with many other prefixes, too. So I suppose I might allow it, used right, but it's not one that I myself would suggest (you two are welcome to do so).
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Post by Brain on Jun 1, 2010 21:21:21 GMT -5
"How would cats have seen milk?"
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They make milk.
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Post by Ten on Jun 1, 2010 21:41:17 GMT -5
"They make milk."
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Of course they do. How would they have seen it, though? It goes straight from the source to a kitten's stomach.
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Post by Brain on Jun 2, 2010 12:44:17 GMT -5
True.
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Post by Cloud on Jun 2, 2010 16:16:07 GMT -5
It must spill occasionally, though. Or get smeared on kittens' mouths.
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Post by Ten on Jun 2, 2010 16:40:22 GMT -5
I don't know about spilling, but kit could have a tiny little droplet on its puffpuffs that I wouldn't expect the mother to be looking for or notice.
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Post by duckyaisha on Jun 4, 2010 21:16:53 GMT -5
I just don't like the idea of milk as a prefix. Something about it....Just throws me off
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Post by Cloud on Jun 4, 2010 21:53:19 GMT -5
Fair point. It was in the books, too, so. Other reason not to like it. ;P I know that's sort of a bad reason but oh well.
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Post by Ten on Jun 5, 2010 14:41:30 GMT -5
There are lots of good prefixes and lots of bad prefixes in the books, so being a canon prefix can mean anything. Anyway, milk is a biological fluid, like blood and urine, and even though they each have their own individual... er, tone, they all have a bit of a weird feel to them. Blood, I know, is the most popular for names of all kinds, but in our case cats can't be the color of blood. Milk isn't gross like urine, but I would sooner describe a pelt as creamy than I would call it milky.
On the subject of weird prefixes, have we discussed Bone? We know cats would have seen those -- although I'm not sure any of them would be fully clean. Maybe a little grayish or brownish with dust (there's not enough sun to bleach them).
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