Archives for 18 May 2006
EP054: Tk’tk’tk
Published on 18 May 2006 at 8:00 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Podcasts, Rated PG.
By David D. Levine.
Read by Paul Tevis (of Have Games Will Travel).
Shkthh pth kstphst, the shopkeeper said, and Walker’s hypno-implanted vocabulary provided a translation: “What a delightful object.” Chitinous fingers picked up the recorder, scrabbling against the aluminum case with a sound that Walker found deeply disturbing. “What does it do?”
It took him a moment to formulate a reply. Even with hypno, Thfshpfth was a formidably complex language. “It listens and repeats,” he said. “You talk all day, it remembers all. Earth technology. Nothing like it for light-years.” The word for “light-year” was hkshkhthskht, difficult to pronounce. He hoped he’d gotten it right.
Rated PG. Contains scatology and crimes against pronunciation.
Referenced sites:
2006 Hugo Nominees
Shelley the Republican
CAP Alert System
Bento Fanzine
National PTA
Rescuing Recess
