Home Ec, Tuesday, Period 1

[vdistinctive]

"Right, welcome back," Eliot said at the top of the class. He was very pleased to have discovered this morning that whatever had stolen his shirts hadn't counted jackets, so he wasn't topless in front of the students. "So you'll maybe be glad to hear that we're movin' into the modern world proper with this class today." He poked a 1950s Singer with

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Make something stuffed

[vdistinctive]

Like a pillow or a teddy bear or an amorphous blob. Get into a fiberfill fight, maybe. So long as you walk out of the classroom with something sewn that's stuffed with fluff, Eliot'll call it a win.

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[boneyard_girl]

His reaction would probably be something they'd both enjoy. Just... not in the middle of class.

"Both good ways t' describe you, too," she laughed. "Dé...délice? Is that right?"

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[vrajna_kralis]

Definitely not in the middle of class. But some time...

Oh yes, sometime.

"Délice," he said, correcting the accent slightly. Ada's adorable twang played hell on the sound of vowels. "Tu es un délice."

Going for the familiar, eh? Cheeky.

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[boneyard_girl]

"Délice," she repeated softly to herself a few times, doing her best to mimic his accent. Then the change in the sentence registered, and she blinked in confusion.

"'Tu es'? 'S that different?"

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[vrajna_kralis]

"'Tis," he explained with a smile. "'Vous' is formal and used when you're being terribly polite and respectful. 'Tu' is informal, used when speaking to those you care for."

Which at least made slightly more sense than assigning genders to objects.

"I would use 'vous' when meeting your uncle. You'd use 'tu' when talking to him instead." Unless the circus stood on ceremony, which bwahahahano.

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[boneyard_girl]

If she understood how cheeky using the familiar was in this case... she'd just encourage him.

"So like callin' some people mister or miss, or usin' their given name," she guessed thoughtfully. "'S easier t' remember than stuff having genders."

Wasn't like a book could tell you what it was!

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[vrajna_kralis]

"Precisely," Hyacinthe agreed, fingers idly tracing over beads. "And 'tis weirder that things don't in English."

In this, Hyacinthe was most assuredly incorrect.

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[boneyard_girl]

Ada leaned in to catch his beads with her fingers. If her fingers slid over his chest first... oops. She'd clearly misjudged the distance.

"They're beads, Hya," she said with amusement, twisting part of a necklace around her fingers. "They ain't boys or girls or anything else, they just are."

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[vrajna_kralis]

"La perle," he told her appreciating the warmth of her nearness. "Obviously female. The pearl I'm thinking of is most assuredly feminine. Named for Naamah herself."

Ada knew the one, oh yes.

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[boneyard_girl]

Oh yes, Ada knew the one, and she turned slightly pink because dammit, Hya, it's the middle of class. "Leave it t' some D'Angeline t' see something round an' shiny an' decide that means it's a girl," she snickered. "I might need help rememberin' what's a la an what's a.... le? 'S that the other one?"

Heh. Lay.

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[vrajna_kralis]

What? No one else in the room knew what he was talking about! So it was perfectly fine, no?

"La is feminine," Hyacinthe said, beaming at her blush. It was hardly his fault she was adorable. "Le is masculine." He pronounced it closer to 'luh.' "Les--" and that one was closer to 'lay' "--is for plurals of any gender. And you remember what you do before vowels, right?"

Of which 'h' was one. Because of reasons. Shut your face, we're French D'Angelline reasons.

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[boneyard_girl]

"No, b'cause I was watchin' movies t' try an' learn more an' they ain't so good at explaining th' grammar bits," she laughed. "I gotta watch th' same sections over an over while I try t' figure it out 'cause everyone talks too fast!"

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[vrajna_kralis]

"It's the l with an apostrophe," Hya said, completely unable to wipe the proud and happy smile off of his face. She was learning his language. "So it becomes part of the next word. L'orange. L'accent. L'hopital."

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[boneyard_girl]

Well, she was trying to learn. How much she'd remember on any given day depended on the weather and her condition.

Ada looked him in the eyes. "I ain't sure if'n I can get my tongue around your l," she said with a straight face. "I might need more practice."

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[vrajna_kralis]

"I'm afraid I must agree," Hyacinthe said gravely. "Fortunately, as your friend and native D'Angelline, I'm willing to offer assistance with wrapping your tongue around whatever you need."

He was such a giver that way.

"I teach by example more oft than not, so I'll be happy to demonstrate the techniques first and then see how you do."

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[boneyard_girl]

"I happen t' have th' rest of th' day at my disposal," she pointed out. "If'n you don't got no plans, I mean..."