"I'm an alien.  I guessed that it was an exaggeration but I have no way of knowing how much exaggeration, which means that instead of getting the intended reader experience of a funny distance between the description and a known reality, what my reading experience is of a description of a universe even worse than this one and which I desperately would not want to live inside.  Sentence two.  'However little known the feelings or views of such a dominant may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.'  I can't easily describe everything that would have to go wrong inside somebody's mind simultaneously to produce that mental behavior in real life, but I'm guessing that real Earthlings do not - taking things exactly as literally as an alien might take the first paragraph - have an attractive stranger walk into their neighborhood and immediately transport themselves into the alternate mental universe where their daughter has a socially acknowledged entitlement to the stranger which everybody else will respect.  There are tendencies like this in minds and in dath ilan we learn at around age eight or so to start fighting them, and I can guess that in Earth there is no training like that until you are twenty-five and frontal cortex has fully matured, because that is around the ability gap implied by some cognitive testing stuff I happened to look at.  Which means that Austen is humorously exaggerating tendencies that I would expect to be in fact louder in Earth than in dath ilan.  If you compound the gap between dath ilani mental life and Earthling mental life and then add Austen's exaggeration on top of that, what you get is a compounded gap that I cannot decode as satire and which just reads as an incredibly, incredibly scary universe to be told that you are living in, full of entities who are probably not sentient."

"I'm an alien.  I guessed that it was an exaggeration but I have no way of knowing how much exaggeration, which means that instead of getting the intended reader experience of a funny distance between the description and a known reality, my reading experience is of a description of a universe even worse than this one and which I desperately would not want to live inside.  Sentence two.  'However little known the feelings or views of such a dominant may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.'  I can't easily describe everything that would have to go wrong inside somebody's mind simultaneously to produce that mental behavior in real life, but I'm guessing that real Earthlings do not - taking things exactly as literally as an alien might take the first paragraph - have an attractive stranger walk into their neighborhood and immediately transport themselves into the alternate mental universe where their daughter has a socially acknowledged entitlement to the stranger which everybody else will respect.  There are tendencies like this in minds and in dath ilan we learn at around age eight or so to start fighting them, and I can guess that in Earth there is no training like that until you are twenty-five and frontal cortex has fully matured, because that is around the ability gap implied by some cognitive testing stuff I happened to look at.  Which means that Austen is humorously exaggerating tendencies that I would expect to be in fact louder in Earth than in dath ilan.  If you compound the gap between dath ilani mental life and Earthling mental life and then add Austen's exaggeration on top of that, what you get is a compounded gap that I cannot decode as satire and which just reads as an incredibly, incredibly scary universe to be told that you are living in, full of entities who are probably not sentient."

"I'm an alien.  I guessed that it was an exaggeration but I have no way of knowing how much exaggeration, which means that instead of getting the intended reader experience of a funny distance between the description and a known reality, my reading experience is of a description of a universe even worse than this one and which I desperately would not want to live inside.  Sentence two.  'However little known the feelings or views of such a dominant may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.'  I can't easily describe everything that would have to go wrong inside somebody's mind simultaneously to produce that mental behavior in real life, but I'm guessing that real Earthlings do not - taking things exactly as literally as an alien might take the first paragraph - have an attractive stranger walk into their neighborhood and immediately transport themselves into the alternate mental universe where their daughter has a socially acknowledged entitlement to the stranger which everybody else will respect.  There are tendencies like this in minds and in dath ilan we learn at around age eight or so to start fighting them, and I can guess that in Earth there is no training like that until you are twenty-five and frontal cortex has fully matured, because that is around the ability gap implied by some cognitive testing stuff I happened to look at.  Which means that Austen is humorously exaggerating tendencies that I would expect to be in fact louder in Earth than in dath ilan.  If you take the gap between dath ilani mental life and Earthling mental life and then add Austen's exaggeration on top of that, what you get is a compounded gap that I cannot decode as satire and which just reads as an incredibly, incredibly scary universe to be told that you are living in, full of entities who are probably not sentient."

"I'm an alien.  I guessed that it was an exaggeration but I have no way of knowing how much exaggeration, which means that instead of getting the intended reader experience of a funny distance between the description and a known reality, my reading experience is of a description of a universe even worse than this one and which I desperately would not want to live inside.  Sentence two.  'However little known the feelings or views of such a dominant may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.'  I can't easily describe everything that would have to go wrong inside somebody's mind simultaneously to produce that mental behavior in real life, but I'm guessing that real Earthlings do not - taking things exactly as literally as an alien might take the first paragraph - have an attractive stranger walk into their neighborhood and immediately transport themselves into the alternate mental universe where their daughter has a socially acknowledged entitlement to the stranger which everybody else will respect.  There are tendencies like this in minds and in dath ilan we learn at around age eight or so to start fighting them, and I can guess that in Earth there is no training like that until you are twenty-five and frontal cortex has fully matured, because that is around the ability gap implied by some cognitive testing stuff I happened to look at.  Which means that Austen is humorously exaggerating tendencies that I would expect to be in fact louder in Earth than in dath ilan.  If you take the gap between dath ilani mental life and Earthling mental life and then add Austen's exaggeration on top of that, what you get is a compounded gap that I cannot decode as satire and which just reads as an incredibly, incredibly scary universe to be portaled into, full of entities who are probably not sentient."