On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 11:31:21 +0100, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at
port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

>                             It can be interesting in a Traveller game to
>use 'non-local' usage to give a sense of not being in Kansas anymore, but
>of course that will vary depending on where you are!

You can do that with your own neologisms as well; for example, when
travelling in the Sword Worlds, you might very well go to a "wexler" to get
your Imperial credits converted to Sacnoth crowns...

("wexler", from German wechsel, which I always see on signs for currency
exchange 'stores', plus -er, suffix indicating someone or something which
does...)

The other thing to do to create the 'not from here' sense is to make sure
that they don't think like you do. For example, in the US, it's common -
essentially expected - to add a gratuity to the tab for almost any service,
from being waited on at a restaurant to the cab driver that took you from
that restaurant to the hotel, to the bellhop that carried your bag from the
door to the elevator, to ...

But what if the attitude is that giving a gratuity for someone doing their
job is considered _insulting_? That is, "This is what I do; I get paid to
do it, I do it in accord with the rules; I'm not mercenary to the point
that I need to be paid extra to _do_my_job_!". _Maybe_ the cabbie will
accept a couple of credits extra if you have six _heavy_ suitcases to load
into his trunk instead of two, but... seriously? For just the one or two
that _any_ tourist will have?

Or dining: You come from a planet where there once were severe shortages of
food, so you were taught to not waste any, and 'clean your plate'. But on
_this_ planet, doing that is an insult to the hospitality of your host,
implying that s/he isn't providing enough - you're _expected_ to leave a
small, even token, amount.

And so on...

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