by DanielH » Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:10 pm
How much “vocabulary exploration” can dragons do? For example, I assume that Elcenia doesn’t have the game of chess. If I said “chess” to a dragonish, what would they learn? If I said “chess, pawn, rook, bishop, knight, queen, king, check, checkmate, promotion, castling, en passant”, would that cover most or all of the rules of chess, or would they actually need more explanation?
We know that some is possible, because from just hearing the word “minute” Ehail was able to know to ask for a clock that showed seconds in order to compare time. Similarly, it isn’t perfect, because she didn’t already know how long the time units were in terms she was used to.