[Video]

[colorfulbrilliance]

[It takes a moment for Meiling to realize that the thing she was poking at was working. She has been pushing buttons at random to get the terminal to work. She hasn't event looked about to see if anything was wrong..other then not understanding people!]

[In Welsh]
Um....Why is it that I could understand everyone just fine a bit ago but now I can't? Can anyone understand me..?

[She frowns and swaps to her other language that she knows..Which she thinks she's speaking Japanese and then Mandarin Chinese.]

[In Quenya]

Can anyone understand me? What is going on?

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[video]

[keepscalm]

[So there had been translation issues, according to Dax and pretty much every other active post on the network. England was fortunate that so many beings in the place seemed to use some standard of English.

This one, though; this girl did not end up so fortunate when the systems had malfunctioned.

He listens carefully to the video. It's been-- well over a year now, since he's had any cause to use it.

Nonetheless, he eventually turns on the feed and responds in accented Welsh.]

I can understand you.

It seems the tower is malfunctioning.

[Video]

[colorfulbrilliance]

[She looks very happy that someone can understand what she is saying. She continues in Welsh.]

Good! Someone else that can speak Japanese. I thought everyone was speaking it before...but now I just don't understand..

[She takes the hat off to scratch at the top of her head.]

The tower is doing what?

[video]

[keepscalm]

[He looks mildly confused by her statement, and sort of wonders if he heard the word wrong or if she'd mixed something up.]

It's-- not working properly. Translation functions appear to be down, and some people have had their languages scrambled altogether.

On that note, I'm afraid we're not speaking Japanese.

[Video]

[colorfulbrilliance]

...What do you mean we are not speaking Japanese..?

[She looks confused at that but at the same time, slightly alarmed. But part of what her just said clicks a bit.]

Why do I get the feeling I'm part of the some people thing?

[video]

[keepscalm]

[England frowns a little, and he'd sound apologetic if that was a thing that England did. He manages a polite enough approximation.] Unless Welsh is in your normal linguistic repertoire, your feeling about that is probably on the mark.

[Video]

[colorfulbrilliance]

...Welsh? Where is that from?

[She takes a moment to think on it before shaking her head a bit.]

Figures. I usually speak Japanese...Does this happen often?

[video]

[keepscalm]

It's one of the languages of Great Britain. Specifically, the constituent country of Wales.

[Dear older brother. Sigh.]

No, not to my knowledge. This is the first time something like this has happened since I have been here. [...and he's been here for a while...]

Are you a fairly recent arrival?

[Video]

[colorfulbrilliance]

Ah, I think I know where that is...

[She knews it is a long way from Gensokyo and a long way from her homeland as well. So yes, she knows. Being new to all this does not help her once bit.]

Yes I am actually. I guess it's easy to tell huh?

[video]

[keepscalm]

It's a lovely place -- we're across the Channel from mainland Europe. [He guesses she must be from Japan, or one of Japan's close neighbours if that's the language she usually speaks.]

You learn how to pick out the newer residents once you've been here a while. Have you been informed of some of the more common survival strategies?