Talk:The Groke

More grokes than one

Hi! This says "the Joxter claims to have a cousin who was eaten by the Groke", however, in the original Swedish I'm pretty sure they were eaten by "a groke" ("en mårra"), implying there are other individuals in the groke species. Don't know how it was translated though. 185.113.97.146 (talk) 11:43, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

It is implied several times that there may be a collection of entities which are called "Groke" through that phrase "a Groke", but it is never elaborated, which is sort of the point, to make it unclear to the audience wtf the Groke is. This is made further unclear, since in Swedish (and i would assume in some rare forms of English too), a rare-esque old way to refer to a specific something in a derogatory "ambiguous" way (like a figurative nickname) is "a X". Let's say, someone is known to be mean, one could say "a mean (one)" about that person ("en elak (en) är strax hemma", "a mean (one) is soon home"). Thus, when they say "a Groke" (en Mårra, ie "a growler"), it is unclear if that is simply a derogatory way to reference the Groke, or, they imply there are more than one. ᛒᛚᚮᚴᚴᚼᛆᛁ ᛭ 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔠𝔨𝔥𝔞𝔧 11:48, 31 August 2025 (UTC)