[ Action, Voice ] "You! What planet is this?"

[talentsgirl]

[Filtered 6%]
[So, after a month or so of study in shifts and things that mess with brains, Molly's ready to try an experiment. She attempts to say each of these in their regular languages: Spanish, Latin, French, and Chinese. All she gets for her efforts are a few words squeaking through Luceti's translation and a headache.]

I'm going to habla en Spanish.

Next to try nonnullus Latin.

I don't know many words in French but here it goes: belle, thanks, Camembert.

...Kung Pao Chicken.

[/Filter]
[She waits a bit for the headache to fade and then makes a general post.]

Two months in this place, and I feel like I'm still just getting my feet wet. I know everyone's getting adjusted with this whole new 'cycle,' but I wonder if a few people wouldn't mind answering a question: What language am I speaking right now?

[And in a bit, Molly will blow off her normal time at the library to enjoy the warm day and glorious weather in a pair of stonewashed cut-off shorts that are just a bit too short and a plain white men's T-shirt. She's roaming in and out of town, until eventually she finds a good hill to meditate on. Two months? Caution's getting thin. It's time to try and contact one of these filial spirits and just... start talking.]

Comments

[voice]

[godbent]

It's not Japanese. [...] To clarify, that's what I hear it is, but it's got that "echo." [That she trained herself to hear. It's more apparent in person though]

[voice]

[talentsgirl]

[Oh, now this is interesting.]

You hear an 'echo?'

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

Trick question. I don't think we can really know, can we? I mean it sounds like English, but...for all I know, you could actually be a very angry Russian.

You see, people call German the angry language but my aggro money is definitely on Russia. It's all that cold weather. Brrr.

[ voice ]

[talentsgirl]

[She wonders what Sanya would say to that.]

So then what's German?

[Voice]

[arturius]

The same language we all do.

[What? He thought everyone was using the same language.]

[Voice]

[talentsgirl]

[Ah - your highness.]

Which is... English?

[Stab in the dark.]

[voice]

[selfhelp]

...Just sounds like English to me. Except for a few words here and there, I guess.

[voice]

[talentsgirl]

[Heh.]

Practicing breaking filters? Not that it was much of a filter...

voice;

[alloys]

...Oh, are you taking orders? Moo Shu Pork, with a side of steamed rice--but not too steamed. I hate it when it gets all clumpy. You know what I mean, right?

voice;

[talentsgirl]

Now that's just rude.

[all7seas]

Hola, darling. You are speaking English to my ears. But one can never tell in this place, can one?

[talentsgirl]

[Sorry about your pebble turning back into a pebble after she walked away, Jack. >>]

That... seems to be the case, yes.

[And from someone who knows mind-messery, this is some MAJOR MIND MESSERY.]

[ voice ]

[kyknus]

I usually hear things in Russian. [ or Greek, or Japanese. Depends what he's using at the time but it seems to default to Russian. ]

[ voice ]

[talentsgirl]

[...now that's interesting.]

Are you from Russia?

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

Sounds like English to me. Fiddling with the translations?

[He's done the same--it's hard to properly tease people with gratuitous phrases in foreign languages with the universal translation convention.]

[voice]

[talentsgirl]

Something like that, yeah.

[voice]

[grapecape]

...Unified Noradic, to my ear.

[This is an Interesting Topic.]

[voice] 1/2

[talentsgirl]

[...does the person in this picture have glasses and a unicorn horn?]

[voice]

[talentsgirl]

I've never heard of that language. Is what I'm saying accented at all?

[voice]

[anita_hero]

...Sounds like English. I wonder why. The French is kinda confusing me.

[voice]

[talentsgirl]

[Someone else who'd hacked her filter? Huh. Well, she'd just put it up for politeness' sake, mostly, but this was an interesting too.]

Yeah? Which part, exactly?

[Voice]

[tailasoldastime]

["Habla en"? "Nonnullus"? What do those mean? But he perks up when she says French, even if he's not sure why she's making it sound like she's said anything different.]

You... y-you always speak French. [To him he means. But he's too confused by why she's asking this to remember to mention that.]

[voice] 1/2

[talentsgirl]

[Oh my goodness, who is that?]

[Voice]

[whydidisaverick]

I guess I'm going to go with the popular answer and say English as well.

But considering it probably wouldn't be completely out of the Malnosso's power to slightly tweak what my perception of English even is, I'm not entirely sure. Though I think it's generally accepted that all the languages are translated?

[Voice]

[talentsgirl]

[Oh, she likes this answer.]

Yes - but translated into what? And how? Are the words actually being changed, or is it just our perception?

[voice]

[first_darkness]

Unaligned.

[ Yes, that's a language. ]

[voice]

[talentsgirl]

[Wow, you're a familiar face-in-the-box. But Molly's sure she hasn't spoken with you before. Maybe it's because in her eagerness to know everything about this place, she's gone back in the journals far enough to when Rin registered his challenge to fight Satan, flipped out, and put her on the List.

...but these journal pictures are so tiny.]

What about these?

[She opens up the filter for her so that this stranger can see the scattered phrases of other languages.]