T-Rex: Writing a story that takes place on an alternate Earth with some remarkable differences from our own? Aw damn it, frig, now you gotta do some worldbuilding!
T-Rex: Frig!!
T-Rex: The trick with worldbuilding is you can't just SAY "okay, so on this alternate version of Earth, cabs are called 'zoopy-clangos' - you gotta introduce that information ORGANICALLY. You can't just say "Let's hail a zoopy-clango, which in a parallel world might be called a 'cab', though of course not here, hah hah."
T-Rex: I know: it feels like that should be fine, but it's not!!
Utahraptor: So am I to assume that in this world, some horse-drawn carriages are called "clangolas" then?
T-Rex: What?
Utahraptor: Well, "cab" is short for "taxicab" which itself is short for "taximeter cabriolet", with "taximeter" meaning "taxing by distance" and "cabriolet" being the horse-drawn carriage in question. SURELY you figured out a coherent etymology for all your new words, right? Because that's ALSO a part of the job??
Off panel: Though of course, "meter" is from the Greek "metron", so with "zoopy" we're rewriting European linguistic history from scratch. Wait, does your history diverge BEFORE folks were speaking Proto-Indo-European??
T-Rex: Well!
T-Rex: Uh
T-Rex: It now takes place in space
