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Speaking in Tongues [7.03]

Karal smiled at everyone, hoping no one noticed the bunny prints on the library floor.

"I'm not sure if this will work, but I made lots of little paper squares," Karal put a box on the table, and some large squares of cardboard, with grids marked on them, "with the letters of the languages we've been learning. I thought we could get into pairs, or groups, and play a multi-language version of the game of scrabble."

[ooc:

please wait for OCD.

Have at it! Sorry this is late, I was distracted by coffee woes.]

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Montagues did not play to lose, and Romeo was not stupid; of course he wanted to block off the z.

He touched the board lightly, not going near the letters and noting in dismay he didn't have a U. He was also conjugating Latin in his head; Adah would probably notice the concentration in his face.

Finally, he placed an N and an O above her B and an I and an S below it. He added 11 to his score, noting he was at barely half Adah's total. Us in Latin, he explained in the notebook before passing it back.

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Ugh, if only Adah had a V, then she could probably create half of the Kilanga language. She frowned a bit at the board, thinking, having a strange need to fill it in with all the languages she knew, but feeling like she shouldn't count all of her anagrams and backwards languages. She wondered where this strange sense of justice was coming from. Romeo's already contributed Latin and Italian. Japanese. There wasn't any... A French word came to mind. No. Needed a V, again. Shimata....

Finally, shifting a bit because the curve of her back was starting to ache on her a bit, she laid down some tiles. It was a stretch, but she didn't have much else, and she was ahead, so she figured she could spare a lackluster round, laying to the right of Romeo's N an O and her X.

53, she updated her score, Roman deity equivalent of night; also, in the language of chemistry, a type of nitrogen oxide.

Romeo bounced his tiles in his hand, considering his move. On the one hand, it seemed early in the game to use an s; on the other, using it gained him a triple-letter score, and he had only single-point tiles.

He shrugged and placed the S-O-L-I before the s in nobis, adding the seven points from that to his score, totalling 31. "Sun," he said quietly, as if he knew Adah knew that.

Adah smirked a little, privately. At this rate, he might catch up with her. With these tiles, he was probably sure to catch up with her, actually. She studied the board carefully, thoughtfully, seeking out the best open vowels, since she had none.

And then her breath caught a bit; it was pure luck, really, that she recognized this, in her study of Islam from class last semester. A J above the O, right on the double letter score, ended with an L below it. 16 plus 1 plus 1. She updated her score to 71, and met her increase with the explanation of Persian, 'way,' helps form Taza Jol, which is a branch of Islam.

She might have been showing off her treasure trove of knowledge a bit here.

That drew half a grin to cover the sting of being so far behind. "I don't know Persian," Romeo confessed. "Anything you play, I would need to believe was real."

Faced with a hand that looked like some of the demon tongue Andrew had been trying to teach him, he reluctantly used up his vowels, placing a blank tile and an E beneath the JOL. "Jolie, pretty in French," he said, noting the 22-point value by his name with quiet pride.

Adah's nose wrinkled. She should have expected that one, really.

After a long, long, long moment of staring at the board, brow furrowed, Adah finally built of Romeo's jolie, with a T and an A of the I. Ita.

She changed her score to a meager 77, with the note: A Latin form of Yes, also I'm pretty sure it's used as a Japanese pronoun of sorts, but I can't quite remember

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His tiles still sucked, and trying to play in many languages was starting to make Romeo's head hurt. Giving up, he placed a B and an R above the O of NOX. "Five points," he suggested, not really caring if she allowed the word or not.

Adah smirked a bit, pulling the notebook in closer, and scribbling something down before even considering the board and her pieces.

"I think," she wrote, "that once we start subjecting ourselves to prefixes, it's time to call the game. Multilingual Scrabble is admittedly more of a challenge than I expected it to be."

"It is far harder than I expected," Romeo said gratefully. "Thank you for making the attempt with me, at least."

"Hey, you're the agreeing to calling the game while I'm still ahead, so you're welcome."

He propped himself up on an elbow. "Only because I fear I cannot win, and I'd rather at least pretend to be gracious in defeat. And you would still rather write that than say it?" he asked.

Adah's head tilted a little, almost as if calling attention to the fact that she was writing was the only way she would have noticed that she was doing it. In fact, she hadn't even gave it a second thought. She did, now, although she knew the answer; most of it was ruminations on the natural order of it. She gave a slight nod.

"I prefer not to speak if I can help it at all," she explained with the quick movements of her pen.

Romeo had noticed that from ethics class; his eyes stuttered from the writing to her right side for the briefest of glances even as he realized how rude that was; he wondered if this preference had to do with Adah's disability, though he was not foolhardy enough to ask.

"Lucky thing I can read, then," he said. "Though I should be worse yet at Scrabble if I could not, and so we would not be having this conversation."

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