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

Oh, yeah I'll fix that. Didn't know about the word's use. I'll try to be more careful when choosing them from now on.

As for the punishment, there's a reason why there was a restriction instead of physical beatings. It's a bit vague in the moment as it means to be understood through reading between the lines, but it will be clearer why later on --Writeranon (talk) 19:50, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

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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)