I realized that I had to make excuses all the time for things I hadn't even thought about. Now I want to explain myself. The intonation in the text is put by the person who reads it.
I didn't impose mine eagle name on anyone. But everyone was critical. So I had to explain repeatedly why I didn't want to call he a Chip. Unfortunately, he was never given an official name and I need to call him something.
Ajeta wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2021, 6:27 am
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after all you liked Chips a lot. (Egg-eater seems a name born of hurt feeling, too. It does him injustice though. He was on the nest twice before alone with the living eggs and did not eat them. He only ate an already dead egg / hatchling, just as the dead little ones were regarded as food by Milda. I'm glad that hatchling didn't end up in the stomach of a crow.)
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I didn't like him. I don't even like him outwardly, unpleasant. But he was very helpful to Milda at that moment. I suspected that he had lost his family and I felt sorry for him.
When I write about eagles, I realize that we are also read by less informed people. I could call stepfather a "black mark", but not everyone knows about the black spot in the beak. Everyone knows about the Big Boy that he ate an egg. There is no other definition that everyone can understand, without exception. He hadn't spent enough time in the nest.
Ajeta wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2021, 11:07 am
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Egg-eater is not in the same way referring to a random bodily feature. It describes a kind of acting, in this case in exactly one particular event, one in which the eagle could possibly have acted differently, more to human taste, so to speak. Egg-eater is deprecating, as it evokes an idea of cruelty. In fact, however, he was not cruel to the dead hatchling nor to the living eggs when he encountered them. He was cruel to Chips in driving him away (for the time being), and thus to all those who felt great attachment to Chips. By naming him with a name connoting cruelty, you transfer his presumed cruelty to Chips onto the egg.
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Ajeta wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2021, 12:08 pm
I believe with these two sentences you are contradicting the ones before, at the very least to some extent.
You could with equal certainty have called Chips "crow-thief", had you disliked him. He "deserved" that just as much. Especially as it could be argued that with that theft he basically annihilated the effects of his former care. However, here you make allowances for his self-preservation. With Mr X2 you do not make such allowances regarding the egg, though he was in a fight, too, at the time, just as Chips had been when he ate the crow. Instead you call that a "less pleasant" feature of Mr X2.
That's what I meant when I said that you're not impartial.
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Here there was an assessment of my opinion about the eagle, which does not correspond to reality.
I don't think it's negative that the eagle ate the egg. We too eat fried eggs and no one calls each other cruel because of this. I do not condemn the actions of the eagles at all."that's stupid. This is humanization. But the eagles are not human.
For me, there is no difference between a stepfather sitting on eggs and a Big boy eating an egg. So I couldn't blame any of them for anything. This is just a description of the facts, without emotional or moral overtones. But I am credited with a negative assessment and draw conclusions that I come up with negative names for the eagles.
I didn't put negativity in my words, you don't need to look for it in my words. I hope no one doubts the fact of eating an egg?
When I wrote that the Big Boy was not remembered for anything good yet, it was a joke, of course. I laugh at our human interpretations of the eagles ' actions. I also use them to make it clear what I'm talking about. But I don't apply human standards to eagles.
So I couldn't give someone a discount. For me, they are equal. Just because the Big Boy didn't help Milda doesn't mean he's bad. Maybe that's how the circumstances worked out. Maybe he has no experience. We don't know.
Ajeta wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2021, 9:51 pm
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As regards the name "leg" - it's a bit funny, but to be honest I would not much like the male contenders past and future be named after limbs. Would you want to call the stepfather "beak"?
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I don't care who calls the eagles by what name. But, for some reason, everyone cares about what I name the eagle. But I can't not name him anyhow.
Ajeta! I like that. I have also paid attention to your very fair views of Mr C and appreciated them. I'm one of those who had no earlier sympathy towards Mr X2, as you well know, so I felt no urge to speak in his defense about the egg or the fact that he challenged MrC's dominance of the territory at a very delicate moment.
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Otherwise it sounds more than PERFECT. Yeah... 
