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[crouching_sin]

Well now, it seems people have flooded back into this place. It seems there was a large percentage of people taken.

In any case, a discussion I had a while ago brought up a question I wanted to ask.

[Even if it was less of a discussion and more bristling at each other. Whatever.]

It's obvious enough that something translates for us - for example I'm typing this in Japanese but someone else might see it in German or English or... I don't know, something like Aramaic.

I'm curious what language everyone is speaking in, and if you speak more than one language. Call it a professional curiosity.

Comments

[text]

[sukeban]

Akkadian.

[voice] Hover for translation!

[crouching_sin]

[... There's a moment of silence, before:]

puluḫtu ammiu

[Text]

[technologic]

I can only speak English.

[A moment, before another message follows.]

Though would computer languages count?

[Text]

[crouching_sin]

Yes, they would. I consider them languages, at least.

[text]

[foreseeing_one]

I must admit it had never come to my mind that anyone could not be speaking Japanese...

[text]

[crouching_sin]

Is that the only language you speak?

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[mutab1e]

-(I+ is ca11ed A1+ernian)
-(Bu+ in practice i+ is near1y iden+ica1 +o Eng1ish)

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[crouching_sin]

That's from a place called Alternia, I assume?

[text]

[kungfubomber]

Sakiharan here. But I was a little surprised that everyone understood each other here once I found out no one else was from Sakihara like I was. I also know Zhu Chenrinese, Stellar Common, and Mangulati.

[text]

[crouching_sin]

Stellar Common - do you interact with other worlds or species, then?

tempted to put [in japanese] at the end of this

[beknightedheroine]

good ol japanese over here. i know a few english words, but i can't really speak it.

I love you and your dumb face. :3

[crouching_sin]

A product of the Japanese school system, then? A lot of schools have a pitiful foreign language program.

[Text]

[firstofthefallen]

Name a language.

[voice] Hover for translation! Icelandic.

[crouching_sin]

Áhugavert. Getur þú skilið þetta, þá?

[Text]

[evokingfool]

Japanese. I know some English and French.

[Hi, Bebe.]

[crouching_sin]

Enough to get by or just a few phrases in each?

[ofdewandglass]

I mostly speak in Alternian, but I can speak some English, too.

[crouching_sin]

Another one for Alternian. Are you from... I'm going to assume Alternia... as well?

[foamylover]

Japanese and some Cantonese!

[crouching_sin]

Mandarin would be more useful, but that's a reasonable combination of languages.

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[godofshawarma]

Those of Asgard speak with the Alltongue - whatsoever the Tower inflicts for translation would not have been necessary, for the Alltongue is heard in the listener's native language.

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[crouching_sin]

[... Great. Asgard. It's probably not Odin. Which leaves two other main possibilities, barring anything unexpected. One, really, since if Loki were here, or at least the Loki he knew, he'd likely have found Naoya already - or caused explosions.]

That only works if the language exists in your universe, I assume.

Let me take a guess - Thor?

[text]

[ocariness]

Traditional Hylian, though from what I can tell of my timeline and how there are so many of us from different points both before myself and after, it seems to have changed drastically over time.

I have been hearing it and seeing it as well. I suppose this explains a good deal of mysteries; I suspect there may be some sort of magic at work.

[text]

[crouching_sin]

Languages have a tendency to do that. You have people from multiple times in your world's history? Interesting.

It would make sense for that to be the case.

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[pactum]

Though I speak English for the most part, I am also fluent in French.

You seem to have a vast array of languages at your disposal.

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[crouching_sin]

Linguistics is one of my specialties, yes.

[text]

[nemophila]

I'm fluent in Japanese, English, and French, and I've studied some Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic. Nothing really in depth on those, though.

[text]

[crouching_sin]

The first three seem to be rather common here. Still, that's a nice variety. Is there any particular reason you decided to pick up five additional languages?

[text]

[subject1]

Since birth I have been fluent in Hungarian. Throughout the many years of my existence, I have come to learn French, English and even German.

[text]

[crouching_sin]

[Well now isn't that interesting.]

And how many years has that been?

[TEXT]

[bloodbrothers]

Any being of worth has long since learned the All-Tongue for communication.

[TEXT] -> [Text] [Locked]

[crouching_sin]

[Oh for the love of -]

I suppose.

[And just give him a minute and he'll - there. Locked.]

Let's skip the pleasantries and the guessing games. Who are you?

[text] damn it sayaka beat me to the punch!

[death_awaits_you]

I think this is Japanese? The only other language I've ever actually read was a little bit of English in school! I wasn't very good with it, though. Ms. Toriumi said I needed a lot of practice, but that was also when I didn't remember a lot of things, so I'm not really sure what else I could understand.





[in Japanese]

[text] YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE, BRO

[crouching_sin]

... I see. You couldn't remember things?

[What is up with that deathbro.]

Text I actually started thinking about this pretty recently...

[temptestament]

Galactic common for the most part, though I also speak Miltian and I've picked up some French and German.

Text; Well Naoya is nosy in his own way so.

[crouching_sin]

[... Okay he is genre savvy enough to pick up on that.]

I'm assuming people where you're from travel through space, then?

[pitiedthefool]

Japanese and Korean with some English on the side.
Nothing really special.

[crouching_sin]

At least you speak more than one language.

[Honestly, the idiots he dealt with sometimes could barely speak their own language, let alone another.]