Another thing on language - clarification
Okay, this probably should be stickied at the top of my journal, but I'll deal with that later.
As I mentioned in my previous entry, Noriko spends most of her time in canon speaking what I will call Izarkspeak, which is the language of that country. That said, if she is talking to you, it will be in that language. Typed or not, but mainly right now, I'm referring to spoken and I don't know if I want to deal with typed-ness right now aaaugh.
Please do note, that when Noriko is speaking this, she is still not ENTIRELY fluent in it. So I am attempting to make her sound a little... maybe awkward is a good word. She's not at as high a level as Izark is, and I hope that shows. That said. She will be learning as she goes along, and I do imagine she will get better over time, but really, she should sound a little strange and stilted when she talks. So... if she sounds too smart, or she seems like she's talking at too high a level, PLEASE TELL ME and I will fix. It's kind of hard to do, ahaha. Anyway, so sometimes she may look at your character curiously about a word, or something like that. She also does some mispronunciations, and I'll do my best to keep incorporating that.
If there is a large block of italicised text, that is Noriko speaking in Japanese. If your character might notice the shift in language, despite the camp translator, then do it - although I ask that you talk to me before going OMG UR SPEEKIN JAPANESE. Probably what will be noticed is more that she is more fluent and knowledgeable when she's talking in italics (though not necessarily any more coherent) rather than the language being evident. Noriko is Japanese, so in her native tongue, she does know more words, more sentence structure, etc. But because of how and when she uses Japanese, she is kind of rambly and off on a tangent most of those times.
Last but not least (unless I forgot something else), Noriko has telepathy with Izark, which is only between them. This is denoted //like this.// I know that we do have telepaths in camp, but in canon, this is specifically said to be between Izark and Noriko ONLY, and sometimes they can see each other while they are communicating. That said, if, for some reason, you think your character could hear them talking, please discuss it with me and/or Izark first. (I DIDN'T TALK TO IZARK ABOUT THIS PART but I think Izark should be involved here, ttly.)
ETA - there are edits in the body of this text but I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING
Noriko has been away from her home for a while now. She disappeared and like. I think everyone thinks she died in an explosion. That said. If she realizes that people are speaking Japanese and that she's back in her world, or a world like her own where Japan exists, well. I'd like to delay that for a little bit. |D
All that to say - when people are talking to her, all Japanese style names will go to [first name] [last name], and all suffixes will be dropped once it filters through to her.
/me should go edit permissions meme now
As I mentioned in my previous entry, Noriko spends most of her time in canon speaking what I will call Izarkspeak, which is the language of that country. That said, if she is talking to you, it will be in that language. Typed or not, but mainly right now, I'm referring to spoken and I don't know if I want to deal with typed-ness right now aaaugh.
Please do note, that when Noriko is speaking this, she is still not ENTIRELY fluent in it. So I am attempting to make her sound a little... maybe awkward is a good word. She's not at as high a level as Izark is, and I hope that shows. That said. She will be learning as she goes along, and I do imagine she will get better over time, but really, she should sound a little strange and stilted when she talks. So... if she sounds too smart, or she seems like she's talking at too high a level, PLEASE TELL ME and I will fix. It's kind of hard to do, ahaha. Anyway, so sometimes she may look at your character curiously about a word, or something like that. She also does some mispronunciations, and I'll do my best to keep incorporating that.
If there is a large block of italicised text, that is Noriko speaking in Japanese. If your character might notice the shift in language, despite the camp translator, then do it - although I ask that you talk to me before going OMG UR SPEEKIN JAPANESE. Probably what will be noticed is more that she is more fluent and knowledgeable when she's talking in italics (though not necessarily any more coherent) rather than the language being evident. Noriko is Japanese, so in her native tongue, she does know more words, more sentence structure, etc. But because of how and when she uses Japanese, she is kind of rambly and off on a tangent most of those times.
Last but not least (unless I forgot something else), Noriko has telepathy with Izark, which is only between them. This is denoted //like this.// I know that we do have telepaths in camp, but in canon, this is specifically said to be between Izark and Noriko ONLY, and sometimes they can see each other while they are communicating. That said, if, for some reason, you think your character could hear them talking, please discuss it with me and/or Izark first. (I DIDN'T TALK TO IZARK ABOUT THIS PART but I think Izark should be involved here, ttly.)
ETA - there are edits in the body of this text but I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING
Noriko has been away from her home for a while now. She disappeared and like. I think everyone thinks she died in an explosion. That said. If she realizes that people are speaking Japanese and that she's back in her world, or a world like her own where Japan exists, well. I'd like to delay that for a little bit. |D
All that to say - when people are talking to her, all Japanese style names will go to [first name] [last name], and all suffixes will be dropped once it filters through to her.
/me should go edit permissions meme now