Cross cultural misunderstandings can be hilarious
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If you’re confused like me, a “punt” is a long, square, flat-bottomed boat used for navigating swamps and rivers, where the boat driver stands and pushes the bottom of the river with a long pole.
In this context, it likely means “ferrying.”
The fact that enough people assumed punt=kick without looking further into it kinda lends weight to the original point.
Until reading this post, I hadn’t really considered that people wouldn’t understand that.
Never heard punt used for anything else but kicking my entire life. Also with how randomly crazy everything is there, it seemed like a perfectly logical action based on their world.
It’s the pitfall of nearly every setting where “because magic” is a valid explanation for really anything.
When magic is shown to enable, say, telekinesis, the immediate logical conclusion is that the same method should apply to mundane transport of goods and people. Then when you see the same people using horses, cars, etc. it absolutely necessitates an exploration of the limits of the magic and why it works in one situation but not the other.
