Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021

Category
  • General
Tags
  • Short stories
  • Tribe

Lost in Translation No More

International outlaws rejoice, for the—first—long wait is over at last. The dreadful manuscript going by the code name Barbarian’s Moon has been translated into English and will from now on be available to all names on the tribal mailing list.

To commemorate this occasion, the slang dictionary has been updated with a peculiar term from the lunar future. Happy raiding!

— G-Foot: noun (mocking, vulgar)

Mocking label applied to travelers from Earth. Despite having been subjected to extensive terraforming experiments, the Moon’s gravitational force is still below one g. The native inhabitants are accustomed to this environment, but foreign travelers tend to struggle. Those from humanity’s ancestral home, in particular, betray their origin through a clumsy, oftentimes erratic, gait.