On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:54:40 -0700, Jim Vassilakos wrote:

>What do Vargr call humans, particularly when humans aren't in the room or
>they don't mind being offensive. I'm imagining that humans might call them
>"dogs" being that they look a lot like dogs and share ancestry with them,
>and so I was thinking maybe they started calling humans "chimps" as a sort
>of counterattack. But I'm open to other ideas.

Others have suggested names that refer to our lack (by comparison) of a
sense of smell; one particular name that hasn't come up is 'numb-nose'. It
might not be considered too offensive, to the point where a Vargr as part
of a 'special ops' team that includes humans might refer to the humans'
inability to detect some particular condition of the with a phrase such as
"You numb-noses miss a lot...".

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