Exactly. I find that Saphira's thinking was terribly forced . . . it's never reflected in how she communicates to Eragon, like EVER. When I think about how Animorphs did it, with an alien who didn't understand some kinds of concepts (like why humans wear clothes) and kept calling the clothes "artificial skin," he actually SAID that too. Once when he was in human disguise at a dance and a girl wanted to dance with him, his friends were like "she wants your body, haha" and he replied to her, "I would like to shuffle my artificial hooves in time with the music with you. But you cannot have my body." Bwahaha. (There are other problems with the aliens in that series, of course, but hey, they did a lot better than Paolini.)
As for the foreign language thing, I always find it really obnoxious when the foreign characters use their own language mainly for "yes" and "no" and other simple words. Those are the FIRST words we learn in other languages, and it's more likely to be the DIFFICULT words that they end up using their own language for.
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Date: 2011-09-17 06:03 pm (UTC)As for the foreign language thing, I always find it really obnoxious when the foreign characters use their own language mainly for "yes" and "no" and other simple words. Those are the FIRST words we learn in other languages, and it's more likely to be the DIFFICULT words that they end up using their own language for.