Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for January 17, 2023

“Honestly?” “No. Lie to me.”

I thought about giving you a story about family issues. But instead, I’m giving you a steamy goblin romance novel.

Phoebe, you nincompoop for thinking your thoughts out loud. Now Engelblart feels insulted!

What’s Plan B on such a short notice? Also, writing and speaking can be very different in any language.

Smooth move, Phoebe!

They will need a Goblin translator!

I can read French better than hearing it or speaking it and I might be able to figure out the basic meaning of a spelled sentence if it’s really simple with some relative English looking words.

I can count to 10 in French and Japanese and also know how they are spelled.

Japanese in the English alphabet that is.

Symbol languages are such that you can speak it but never be able to read it or vice versa.

And I do know just the absolute French basic words.

When I saw all the words for tourists in the back of a visit France book I thought I would consider myself fluent if I could speak and remember all of those.

For goblins however I would think they would prefer symbols of some sort.

I’m impressed that Dakota learned goblin just by being around them enough.

Oops..

All I can say is “Blart.”

Get the author to read it to them?

Someone is going to write this and release it on Kindle.

They can have Marigold translate it for them. Although she may get booed if there’s not enough unicorns in it.

Book on tape. Tapes were devices that were used to store recorded audio and/ or visual information before DVDs. DVDs were discs that were used to store recorded audio and/ or visual etc, you know where this is going.

Can Marigold read Goblin?

Plan B is probably get a translator. What’s Marigold up to currently anyway?

Phoebe: Oh, blart! Goblin looks at Phoebe as though she swore at him.

At least it isn’t a tell-all book about the goblin royal family……

The solution is obvious… Marigold! Goblin Time!

Phoebe can’t read a word of it but could still tell it has chapters?

Blart is rarely understood in its own time.

engelblart looks like a hipster