Talk:The Entertainer/Where in the world is Alice?

In a medieval (or any pre-flight) setting the term grounded is out of place. It's anachronistic. Grounding as a punishment is taken from the time of flight when pilots were grounded . . . thus forbidden to fly; literally bound to the ground. I suppose in a fantasy setting there might be a correlation to a different type of flying force be it dragon riders, magic carpet riders, or even featheries flying under their own power (since this is a furry story). That force might also have a status where they are grounded and thus forbidden to fly that would then make its way into the common lexicon the way it has in our world. That said, I don't have a problem with the use of the term per se, but it was rather jarring to just come across it casually in a per-industrial story. In earlier times punishment via restriction were much more rare than they are today. Generally punishment was physical in nature until more recent times . . . generally beatings. Restriction as punishment was reserved for adults in the form of imprisonment. Sorry to go off on a tangent. I haven't actually had time to read the story fully, just the bits I pick up when patrolling the edits each day; so I don't know the setting very well. The word just struck me as out of place, so I thought I'd see if, after knowing the origin of the word, you still wanted to use it in your story. --Elerneron (talk) 18:05, 13 October 2019 (UTC)