fandomhigh | Speaking in Tongues [8.02] (4-5pm) [The Library]

Karal had set up some of the library tables into a horseshoe shape, and was sitting near the middle with Andrew and Inara ~~when/if they're there!~~. "Hello," he greeted everyone once they'd arrived. "Welcome. I'm Karal, and this is Andrew and Inara. I thought that perhaps we could simply introduce ourselves today, and talk about what languages we know and if we want to teach any of them to the others. You can do so either by speaking or by writing a note to pass around the class."

He gave Adah ~~if she was there, la~~ a quick smile. "This would also be a good time to decide which languages you might be interested in learning. I made a primer of Karsite and Valdemaran, just some simple words and phrases ~~moddable within reason~~ and noted how to pronounce them, because there's no books here in those languages."

He passed out the hand-written, photocopied sheets (five of them, covered in neat, precise handwriting, split into three columns), then smiled. "While I was checking-in books today, I realised that one thing all languages have in common is truly terrible poetry. I've written out a ballad from Valdemar - it's fairly old, but it's still sung often enough to make right-thinking people unhappy - and translated it into English and Karsite. I feel as if I should apologise, though, because it is absolute doggerel."

He passed that out as well. "I have a challenge for next week, and that's to find the the very worst poem you can, and bring it along to translate. We might be able to find a prize for the most painful."

[ooc:

plz to wait for OCD

OCD IS UP!. ETA: Handwavy knowledge of other languages is AWESOME. I speak none, and most fictional languages aren't written out, so handwavy can be our motto.

ETA2: My Lady's Eyes - the song, in all it's terrible glory.]

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In the language(s) of your choice!

Introductions, talk or write about the languages you know, or the ones you'd like to learn.

(Everyone else can ask questions of/talk to the introducer - it's a discussion, not a lecture!)

Boggle over how bad the ballad is - make fun of it, read bits out loud to each other, look at the notes, make plans to find the most truly terrible poem out there (from fictional universes is fair game, obviously), or just talk or write amongst yourselves.

In any language!

Once they ping in, plz!

He's here, a bit nervous over this whole club business.

~~If he's here~~ Again with the waiting for the pinging!

If I knew any other languages, I'd totally write in them, but I don't.

Karsite looks like Ottoman Turkish, Valdemaran looks vaguely like medieval French.

Here!

...in common Ozian, no less.

*is for great SP as am heading out RIGHT NOW for things*

Ecirp Nelle Hada

Just like the original sign up sheet would have told them.

Oh FINE. Have a social life!

*pouts*

The librarian would object to being called Bob, but he was certain it would only end in people attempting to hit him again.

Such was his life.

But he was there, smiling nicely at the students.

"//Hi! My name is// Andrew Wells."

... in Avestan.

Evey neatly wrote I am here in cautious, but flawless Latin, with a simple E.H. beside it.

Edited 2008-02-08 21:26 (UTC)

Aahahahaha My Lady's Eyes. How did I know that that's what it was before I clicked the link? ;) Oh, right, because it's the WORST POEM IN VALDEMAR.

This gets my NOES icon.

"I'm Karal," in case anyone had forgotten, "and I'm from Karse. I speak Karsite, Valdemaran and the Imperial tongue fluently, and can get by in Shin'a'in, Rethwellan, and Hardornen. I'd be more than happy to teach any of them," he smiled, "though I might be the only person you'd be able to talk to in them."

HAHAHAHA It is the WORST one OMG!

Vanyel's mum: *HAD NO TASTE!*

Hmm, I should upload the song...

Hoshi carefully wrote her name in Japanese Kanji.

"I'm Andrew Wells. I can speak a number of languages, but, um, most of them aren't really used anymore." He glanced uncomfortably at Karal.

"But I'm good with Latin and some French, ancient Etruscan, a good number of your Indo-Iranian, Indo-European dialects, Akkadian and Sumerian, some of your more rural tribal dialects..."

He looked about. "And I'll just stop there."

Hoshi normally would have sat in back and listened to everyone else, but the whole idea of signing up for the club was to socialize more. So she reluctantly got up and introduced herself.

"Hi, I'm Hoshi. My tutors back home called me a linguistic genius and I speak pretty much every Earth-based language. Um, my favorite right now are Russian, because it sounds really cool. I'd be interested in learning any non-Earth language."

Andrew was there, reminding himself not to talk about demon languages, because he had promised Karal he wouldn't.

Carmela signs her name in the Speech. Written in ink, of course, and not wizardry.

"I'm Evey," she said quietly, wanting the focus off her as soon as possible. "I speak English, and some Latin -- I really like Latin." She unconsciously rubbed her hand over her left shoulder, looking almost shy. "I know a little French, some Spanish, and I'm working on dipping my feet into Japanese and Russian now. It's important to me to be able to communicate with people, no matter where they're from."

"My name's Carmela Rodriguez and as far as human languages go I speak English, Spanish, Japanese, and French. I'm pretty good with some non-human languages too, especially Ailurin and Cyene, since those are the ones I get the most practice with. I speak the Speech as well, which is sort of a category of it's own." She pauses there, aware that she's sort of babbling.

"I'd like to learn more nonhuman languages, or human languages from worlds that aren't Earth. Either would be cool."

It was a good thing John was taking French class or his greeting of hello would've been in English.

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