Re: limbs (was Re: Fluency Wish-List)

Dennis Himes wrote:

>    When gladifers discovered planets with quadrapeds, they called a quadra-
>ped's front leg a malet and its hind leg a mnolot, regarding the hlemet pair
>as the "missing" legs.  However, this meant that when they encountered
>people, our arms were called fsumalet and not fsuhlemet, even though they
>resemble a gladifer's fsuhlemet much more than they do a gladifer's
>fsumalet.
I like this.  What's the backstory here?  When and how did humans and
gladifers make contact?  Where are the gladifers?  What planets with
quadrapeds did they discover before discovering us?

Feel free to reply on Conculture, if that's more appropriate...

Matt.