Cross Species Communications - Monday (Final Project)

[spit-spot.livejournal.com]

The desks have been arranged into a semi-circle today. The silver tea/coffee set and petit fores are back as well.

"Good afternoon students. Today you will give your final presentations in front of the class. I'm very pleased with the progress you've all made. Very pleased. So there's no reason at all to be nervous about presenting infront of myself and your classmates."

Mary smiled at the class.

"So... Who would like to be first?"

[[ooc: Open. Please give the grade you think your character should get when you sign in. A *handwavy* description of your project is fine. The point of the class is to have fun, not to cause stress. Post is considered open until Wed only for plottish reasons.]]

Comments

SIGN IN

[spit-spot.livejournal.com]

And give me the grade you think your character should get.

Re: SIGN IN

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River signed in.

She should probably get a very good grade.

Re: SIGN IN

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana Lang

Probably an A or A+.

PRESENTATIONS

[spit-spot.livejournal.com]

Alone or in groups.

Re: PRESENTATIONS

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River volunteered to present first and talked with some enthusiasm about the Dolphin language.

Re: PRESENTATIONS

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

When it was Naomi's turn to give her presentation she gave a well prepared talk on both the Hound and Dolphin languages.

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[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric stood up and did a fairly well detailed presentation on the language of the birds. There was a minor stumble or two but he corrected himself quickly.

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana gave a very good presentation on Cat with forays into Panther.

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter presented about Hound and nuances between it and what he's been able to understand about the Hellhound dialect, which seems to have a lot of emphasis on blood.

He brought a very excited Pup with him to give examples.

Re: PRESENTATIONS

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude was very nervous about maybe actually doing well in a class for once, so there was a bit of stammering as he apologised for not being as understandable because the crutches and cast messed with body language, but the stammering gradually vanished as he talked about the similarities and difference between various bird languages and demonstrated Seagull and Pigeon and hoped he got it right. He was so lugging a crate of bird seed out to Nathan Philips Square if he did well in this class.

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[chasingangela]

Angela had spent Sunday using her Cat to talk to Min and had gotten a few Cat folktales out of the pet. For her presentation, she presented one that had a parallel to Red Riding Hood -- except the cat-girl int erh story ate the wolf at the end.

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[notajar]

Door's brought a pigeon along, but she's not speaking pigeon herself. Instead, she's taken an ancient text in Formal Dragon shh if you collapse the quatrains into couplets it works, and translated it into Starling.

//It was that time when the humans all go rushing home for dinner, and the wormlike-but-not-tasty creatures that nest under the round stone things were turning about like someone put salt on their tails and making holes in the grass, possibly looking for worms. The {derisive sniff} mop-birds were full of woe, and the stupid green snuffle-pigs had got lost again and made snorty noises about it like this: {snorty noise}.//

...yeah, it goes on.

When she finishes the translation in Starling, Door adds, "I asked my friend Chimney to help translate it into Pigeon, but she's, well. A little different. She's a computer thingy and her translation program is sort of.... jumbley."

//Can you recite the poem back for me, Chimney?// she asks in Pigeon.

The bird answers //I can place it in the talking crate!

Of Twas of, and those the toves slithy made gyre and gimble in honeycomb brillig. Everything mimsy were those borogoves and outgrabe of raths of mome. You take, my threads to guard Jabberwock! The scary ocean-fish which bite, the claws, which catch! Hats and Bandersnatch avoid themselves you before the bird of Jubjub frumious! It took its regulation sword vorpal: long time the enemy of manxome, which it looked for it by the tree of Tumtum rested in such a way and during some times in the thought was held. And how in uffish thought that it held itself, Jabberwock with flame eyes come whiffling by burbled the wood of tulgey and during it came! One two! One two! And thoroughly the blade vorpal went snicker break crust! It left it dead, and on same stage with its head it went galumphing backwards. "And thou the Jabberwock massacred? Come to my arms, my male light-emitting child! Day frabjous O! Callooh! Callay!' it chortled in its joy. Of Twas of , and those the toves slithy made gyre and gimble in honeycomb brillig. Everything mimsy were those borogoves and outgrabe of raths of mome.//

[Babelfish, how I love thee. With a couple of tweaks. Also OMG *de-italicises*]

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow, who had panicked about the classes she'd missed, gave a presentation on all the languages they'd studied. She also threw in some of what she'd learned about Squirrel so far by working on her own.

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[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Schrodinger had thought about doing cat. But that would have been cheating. And while Millennium did not emphasize playing fair, they also emphasized challenging yourself.

And so, Schrodinger's presentation included the reading of the entire Ripley Scroll. In Starling.

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[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

Kaoru got up to the front of the class for his turn, doing a presentation on the feline language. He finished with a small bow and embarrassed smile.

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly stood up and did a comparison of canine and feline. Her "accent" wasn't the best, but she was understandable.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn gave her presentation on the feline languages, comparing and contrasting, and explaining how "You should clean the litter box" in feline domesticus looked and sounded remarkably like "I'm here to hunt your young" in lion, and how it was therefore important to be careful.

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[notawitch.livejournal.com]

Since they hadn't gotten to frog in the class, Will did a presentation on what she thought the next closest animal was: snakes. She covered the many different way to say "slithering on the ground" in a couple different dialects of parseltounge, and the ways to hold a polite conversation with others while in the middle of digesting a vole.

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[stykera]

Stark stood up (with Sheila the egg baby, of course) and gave a presentation on Dolphin. He'd had the most fun with that one.

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[narglette.livejournal.com]

Luna stood and did a presentation on the language of Penguins. There were also references and brief mentions of many other creatures.

Of course, given that among those mentioned were the blibbering humdinger, the woolly tresifrece, and the crumple-horned snorkack, it was entirely possible that some were ones of which only Luna had heard.

CHAT

[spit-spot.livejournal.com]

Pass notes, react to the presentations.

AFTER CLASS

[spit-spot.livejournal.com]

She's here if you want to chat with her.

OOC

[spit-spot.livejournal.com]

Still hate this picture.

Mary is going to be leaving soon, nobody knows this right now. Not even her, though she suspects it'll be time to go soon.

Re: OOC

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwww... I'm going to miss Mary.

Thanks for another semester of learning to talk to critters.

Re: OOC

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

*applauds all the hard work you put into the class* Thank you very much for it!