Calligraphy, RSC style.*

[bad_in_latin]

Mal's walking into the bar at the end o' the 'verse just now, and by the looks of things, he has a Plan.

Not as good as a Way, but he tries.

Mandarin Calligraphy, for Sale, Trade, or Because I Feel Like It

At least he's to the point.

[*Rogue Spaceship Captain. Ask Lilly Kane

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[lissla_lissar]

A while back Lissar was described to Mal, and when she pauses by his sign it's with an interested and vaguely confused expression.

She kinda-sorta recognizes the calligraphy from the one Ironhide got her.

[lissla_lissar]

"...You keep using words I do not know." Lissar says blankly. WHich means, the point goes over her head.

[bad_in_latin]

Mal restrains himself from facepalming.

"Sorry about that -- it's words from this language, Chinese, that I'm writing. Everyone in my 'verse speaks both."

[lissla_lissar]

"My language," Lissar offers, "sounds like English, and has most words the same as English, but is not actually English. Contractions." she makes a moue of distaste. She doesn't get them, "So I am a step farther from the normal than one who does not speak the language at all. I think I confuse the Bar."

[bad_in_latin]

"Thought the bar actually translated most things -- I still don't know why she lets me and mine get away with the Mandarin most of the time."

[lissla_lissar]

"It is, I think, too subtle a difference. Just enough that I sound a fool often. Less as I get used to living on Earth." It doesn't really concern Lissar, talking to people is still something she's done for less than a year and she figures she'll get better with time. "But it does mean that context does not give me everything needed for words in yet other languages."

[bad_in_latin]

"For what it's worth, I don't think you sound foolish."

It comes off as more a statement of fact than a compliment as Mal fidgets with some of the disorganized ink sticks at the bottom of their box.