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kage_himoto

Writer's Block: Multilingual

Jun 01, 2009 19:29

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hart_on_sleeve June 1 2009, 23:46:56 UTC

Wow, I'm feeling bloody moronic, I can only speak English, except for the occasional alien swear.

Latin, nice! All I know is Romanes enut domus ;O)

kage_himoto June 2 2009, 00:05:25 UTC

Well the T'sni is the language of my Mother's people, and their clan is located in Japan, so when I ran off, that was the first one I learned. Had to, to survive. It's what my Master taught me in and all that. So my early childhood teaching was all in T'sni, and all my proper schooling was in Japanese.

Then he died, and I found Sanctuary, which is in France, so I learned French.

And almost everyone has to speak at least a little English these days, or the damn Americans will blow your head off thinking you're just being difficult by speaking the language of whatever country they happen to be in that isn't America.

aureliaofarista June 2 2009, 04:15:49 UTC

....You realize only one of those was a real word, right?

hart_on_sleeve June 2 2009, 06:37:09 UTC

You mean those Monty Python people were jerking us around? How rude!

No, I did know, I was just seeing if Kage would get the joke.

All things considered I thought you'd guys speak ancient Greek..?

aureliaofarista June 2 2009, 06:41:51 UTC

I have no idea what you're talking about, but only 'domus' is a word. It means 'house.' We can't even tell but 'enut' is supposed to be, unless it's a horrific mispelling of the word for 'they go', but since the subject is apparently 'house'....

And which ancient Greek did you think we spoke? Attic? Ionian? Doric? Koine?

...actually, we do speak koine, but tangled up with Latin.

hart_on_sleeve June 2 2009, 07:46:26 UTC

Oh yeah, I always forget you guys aren't from the 21st century (don't ask me how!)

But for your benefit and Kage's this is what I'm talking about:

Well whatever Greek they spoke in Athens...but yeah languages aren't my thing.

aureliaofarista June 2 2009, 08:12:04 UTC

Oh. So it was meant to be wrong. Gotcha.

Foreigners never know how to use the locative case right.

Athenians spoke Attic Greek.

hart_on_sleeve June 2 2009, 08:19:50 UTC

It seems damn confusing...in English just stick an exclamation mark in there and it'll all turn out.

So wait when you guys first turned up in the Nexus you all spoke Latin? That must have been confusing as Hell.

aureliaofarista June 2 2009, 09:15:03 UTC

We still do. Translation spell. It glitches out occasionally, but it generally works fine. We just hear everything you say so it makes sense.

hart_on_sleeve June 2 2009, 09:21:12 UTC

Really? Niiiice! I thought only TARDISes could do that sort of thing.

Heh, what do I sound like speaking Latin? I hope my voice is still sexy as ever ;O)

aureliaofarista June 2 2009, 09:23:44 UTC

Nearly everything is sexier in Latin.

hart_on_sleeve June 2 2009, 09:27:07 UTC

Really?!

Da-yamn, maybe I should learn some...what's "I'm gonna sex you up" in Latin? (I'm sure Kage would like to know this too! ;O)

kage_himoto June 2 2009, 22:29:30 UTC

For the record, French has inherited that.

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