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dihalect · 2 years

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remember when meenah called karkat "nubs mcshouty" (which i love btw). what the fuck is up with that name.

we know that troll culture can accommodate some names that don't follow the 6/6 rule. troll will smith, for example. so that part is whatever. but 'mc' is an irish/scottish name-part that means 'son of'. i can also accept that alternian has words and morphemes that, in english history, are loans. i'm sure there are hundreds of other examples of those in homestuck.

but how did they specifically get a prefix that means "son of"? OBVIOUSLY that meaning wouldn't work with troll name assignment. they don't have the concept of a parent or a son. so what does it mean to them??? how did it arise?????

#txt #kettun aftiim's ancestor 'the linguist' trying to piece together all this shit that was just orchestrated by doc scratch so that #alternian would look like english #what if they ended up just reconstructing an account of english historical linguistics lmao #like. honey you're a genius but that's the wrong planet #ANYWAY. even if we consider that they might use it in a 'son of [ancestor]' way.#1. they dont know their ancestors until they figure it out themselves. so they cant be assigned that name at wriggling.#i GUESS they could change it later #(iirc pesterquest mentions sollux's name is solluxa der‚ and hussiesaid somewhere that he's trans + had changed it?#so if a troll changes their name it doesn't HAVE to fit the 6/6 rule)#2. 'shouty' is‚ in fact‚ 6 letters. so 'mcshouty' *would* be a valid 'mc + ancestor' name. so that holds up.#3. HOWEVER. the fact that meenah uses it like this indicates that the morpheme 'mc-' appears commonly enough that ppl can take it and #use it productively in the 'mc + [descriptor]' way #unless there is some famous troll 'shouty' who she's alluding to. which i highly doubt #i just worke up sorry if this doesn't make any sense #hs ling #<- new tag i fuckin guess

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