What's a glob to do

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easy and quick:

• daily click

• demand a ceasfire

I feel we talk about signs of abuse from the victims standpoint but not from the abusers standpoint. In order to stop emotional abuse and recognize when we engage in unhealthy behaviors I made this list.

Do you react to important people in your life by ignoring them completely and not acknowledging their presence? Especially if they do something you don’t like?

Do you feel that your partner/friends/family members are the cause of your bad moods or frustration?

Does your partner/etc “do things the wrong way”?

Do criticize your partner/etc for being unreliable or a bad person?

Do you feel you have to constantly overlook your partners flaws in order to be around them?

Are you frequently accused of being “moody” or “hard to please”?

Do your partners complain that “nothing they do is good enough?

Do your partners appear to avoid you when you are angry or upset rather then comfort you?

Do you negatively comment on their intelligence or appearence? Either in private or in front of others.

Do you blame them when someone goes wrong?

Do you ever use phrases like “I could just hit you right now” or “I”m so mad I could punch something”?

Do you ever punch walls/throw things in front of your partner/etc?

Do you leave during fights and not inform of where you are going and when you will be back?

Do you behave the same alone with your partner that you do if you were in front of your friends or in public?

Have you frequently accused your partner of being too sensitive?

How often is your partner praised and complimented by yourself?

Do you think your partner spends too much time with friends and family?

Do you feel your partners friends and family are trying to drive you apart?

Do you actively comfort your partner when they are upset or angry even if you don’t really understand why they feel the way they do?

If your partner brings up a behavior that bothers them do you respond by discussing how to change it or do you respond defensively?

Do you have difficulty apologizing?

Anyway, maybe this is a niche complaint but no, Rocky isn't doing the whole "sentence - question marker" thing anymore.

Also, they made the translation software using Excel as quickly as possible because you know, Earth death. Even if Grace didn't learn their language he would upgrade the software.

Edit: I'm going to make more of a thing out of this. It bothers me because it makes Eridians sound primitive, but it's just the translation software. Their language is fully complex; Grace just doesn't know it well enough. And also, Rocky has a much better memory than humans and he doesn't need translation software. He learns English far more rapidly but cannot speak English back because of biology.

Repetition to indicate emphasis could be a semantic feature of Eridian, or could be a result of a limited shared vocabulary. Ex: "Amaze amaze amaze!"

Rocky refers to himself by name in the first person, and come to think of it, doesn't use many pronouns at all. I can't think of him saying "I," but does use "me" and "my" such as in "fist my bump" and "fist me." (It was in the book istg) It could be that in his language, one refers to themself by name in the nominative case, but with a pronoun in the accusative.

The pidgin doesn't use articles (ex: "Life is reason" as opposed to "life is the reason,"). That could be for simplicity in communicating, or it could just be Eridian syntax. Russian does something similar.

It's cool that Eridian has a semantic/morphological marker for a question, instead of a pragmatic one like most human language. They seem to use the same structure for a yes/no question as with a statement because of this word to indicate questions.