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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Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[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."

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake blinked and wondered how much coffee Blair had had.

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[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."

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Cool!" Blair bounced happily and sat down. "Yeah, I know it's probably bad karma killing them anyway. They just crawl up and over and all those legs and..." Blair shuddered. "But it's got to be way worse if you can talk to them and like know their names and that they have kids or something, don't ya think?"

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake looked over at him. "You think spiders have names?"

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair smiled and shrugged. "I don't know. But maybe, I mean, what would they call each other if they didn't have names?"

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"An excellent question," Dream interjects. "And one of the things we will discuss is how different beings speak to each other specifically. In the case of spiders, for example, they have family names, but not individual names. Dogs go entirely by scent. And so on."

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Whoa." Blair scrambled for his notebook and pens, writing furiously.

Re: Creature Languages, 1/09

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Vala suppresses a slight snicker at the over-eager freshman.