Creature Languages, 1/09

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

As the last Classics students filter out, Dream waits for most of the Creature Languages students to have taken their seats before he begins to speak again.

"Hello, and welcome to class. I hope this will be an enlightening experience for all of you. It is based on a premise that many of you may be ignorant of; all beings have a language. While humans may not be physically equipped to speak or understand them in the wild, so to speak, studying those tongues allows greater communication throughout the environment. This is especially true when it comes to animals that are feared by humans, such as snakes or spiders, and for that reason I plan to concentrate on those languages.

Before class starts, please review the class rules. I would like each of you to sign them at the bottom and turn them in to me. This will serve as our contract for the semester.

After that is done, I would like for each of you to stand and tell the class a little about yourself, including any languages you have studied before, either creature or human-based, and any particular goals for this class. In addition, I am in my office after class for any questions or concerns."

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Creature Languages, 1/09

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Sign in, tell the class about yourself.

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[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

"Hey. I'm Jake Gavin junior. I am a junior too," he added after a brief sip of his coffee. "From before I speak English - believe it or not - French, German, Italian and Swiss-German. I know a bit of other Swiss dialect as well, and random stuff in Russian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and Arabic. My dad travels a lot," he explained. "I'm here because, well, I thought it could be useful. Like in talking to or at least understanding the new Librarian."

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[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream looks bemused at this recitation. "I have heard about the Librarian. He is an interesting choice for this school. Welcome to class, Mr. Gavin."

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[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige signs in and hands over over her signed copy of the class rules.

"I'm Paige Matthews, sophomore I took Cat last semester and I took a French at my old school, other than that it's pretty much just English for me."

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[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"Thank you for continuing your studies, Ms. Matthews."

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair grinned and bounced as he stood to talk. "I'm Blair Sandburg, and this is my first time being in a class at a school. I've traveled all over the world during my life, living with all sorts of different people. I speak a little hodge podge of a few languages, mostly enough to converse with the people when I lived there." Blair waved his hands around as he talked, continuing to bounce.

"French, Spanish, German, Swahilli, a bit of Quechan and Hindi and sign language." Blair bounced. "I learned the sign language to talk to monkeys! But I know it's not anything close to what they probaly talk like normally so I'm excited to learn how to talk to them! Oh! And elephants and dogs and possibly snakes...but I'm not sure about spiders because I don't really care for them and if I had to talk to them before smushing them...it would be really bad karma."

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[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake blinked and wondered how much coffee Blair had had.

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[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"That's interesting, Mr. Sandburg. Thank you. We'll probably do a unit on primate languages.

I'm not sure about the karma of killing spiders."

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'm Walter Dornez. I'm a freshman. I'm here from London. I don't speak a bunch of languages the way Jake does. I'm taking the class because my employer wanted me to have the sort of education I couldn't obtain in London, and Creature Languages definitely fits the bill."

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[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake held his coffee up towards new dude in greeting.

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[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"I doubt you could study this subject at any other school in the waking world, Mr. Dornez. Thank you for joining us."

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi doesn't do anything but smile at Walter. Because she's being clandestine.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hello, I am Pippi Longstockings. I'm from Sweden were I lived in Villa Villekulla, that's my Papa's house. I spent most of my life sailing around the world with my Papa on his ship until he was washed overboard. But he didn't drown, he's to fat for that. Instead he floated to a tropical island. I had to rescue him when he was captured by another group of pirates who wanted our money. But we're all okay now... This is Mr. Neilson. He's a monkey. Is it okay that I brought him along?"

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Mr. Neilson bows to the class and doffs his hat to Dream.

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair grinned and waved at Pippi from where he was sitting.

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[swerval_zero]

"Hi, I'm Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage, Zero's fine. I speak English and Chinese and a bit of French, as well as Cat, which I learned last semester and through, um, unexpected practical experience. I'm here because, well, it's not exactly a class you see every day, is it? I want to take advantage of it while I can get it, y'know?"

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[soldtoarmenians]

Xander signed in and stood, shifting a little uncomfortably - which you could put down to the standing up in class thing, or the still-slightly-damp-shirt thing, and probably collect your winnings whichever way you bet.

"Xander Harris. Who usually doesn't smell quite so much like Folgers Dark Roast, but there was a thing in Shop Class today. I've taken about two years of French, which means I can just about say where's the bathroom, do you sell Twinkies, and my French is really crappy, please don't hit me. I'm from Sunnydale, California, where... well, let's just say we meet a lot of creatures. Some of them are even not trying to eat us. I figured it might be useful to be able to tell that without getting in fang-range." He sat down, then added, "Also, I have a pet frog. I'm not sure I want to know what he's actually saying to me sometimes, though."

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[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

"Hello. I'm Draco Malfoy and I'm a sophomore." he says "Last semester I took the Classics class here so I'm familiar with the languages taught in that class. I'm taking this class because where I'm from it isn't unusual to have a basic understanding in creature languages. I happen to find Parseltongue fascinating in particular."

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[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Vala stands up and hands in her signed form.

"I'm Vala Mal Doran, and I figure the more creatures I can talk with around here the more likely I am to live to graduation better. I speak a little bit of a few obscure off-world really obscure... uh, human languages, but nothing like cat or frog or gremlin or anything."

She sits back down.

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

After listening to the other students, Molly stands up feeling a bit like maybe she doesn't know enough to take this class.

"I'm Molly and I only speak English. I've talked with Old Lace, my friend Gert's dinosaur, but that was only with Gert translating. I signed up for this class because I thought it sounded cool." She quickly sat back down again.

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[anole-x.livejournal.com]

"Hey, everyone. I'm Victor Borkowski," he started, giving a little wave (especially to Walter, Xander, Zero, and Jake). "I just transfered here from Massachusetts, where I've lived all my life. I really don't know any other languages except English, though I kinda like French, and I know enough Spanish to get me by. I figured it'd be cool to learn creature languages, so that's why I'm here. Plus, I kinda look like a lizard, so maybe I can get them to talk with me," he added, laughing nervously.

[ooc:yikes, i suck at the whole posting thing. reposted because i put it in the wrong place >_<]

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[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordelia stands up and looks at everyone. "I'm Cordelia Chase, and I'm from Sunnydale, too," she says, looking at Xander. "I speak English (obviously), and took a few years of French as well. I also have a small understanding of some demon languages, like Kungai and Aberjian."

"I'm taking this class because I've learned the importance of knowing other languages, especially ones that aren't that easy to learn, and think knowing creature languages would definitely come in handy."

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[stykera]

After signing his copy of the class rules, Stark stood up.

"I'm Stark. I haven't studied any languages. I never really had the chance to. This just sounded...interesting. And useful, considering where we are."

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[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

"Hi, I'm Lisa," Cuddy says with a smile. "I'm a junior, and I studied Languages of Europe last semester. I picked up some Spanish then, and my French is pretty good. I also know some Yiddish and Hebrew, but I don't like to dwell on those."

She takes a short breath, "Anyway, I'm here so that I can better communicate with my fellow students, considering their tendencies to turn into dogs and bunnies and a wide-variety of other mammals. I'm also hoping to pick up some Cat, so that Faithful feels more comfortable here in Fandom, and I can tell when he's cursing me out."

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[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

"Hullo, I'm Lily Evans. I'm from England and I attended a boarding school for magic users before coming here - the same school as Draco Malfoy, but not at the same time - it's a bit weird. Anyway, I haven't studied any other languages yet, unless you count a tiny bit of basic latin used in spell work. Goals for this class? To learn as much as I can, I suppose."