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Creature Languages, 02/06, Period 3

"Hello.

I hope you all enjoyed speaking with Racso on Thursday. You showed a nice grasp of conversational Rat.

For class today, I would like for you to pair up with someone you have not worked with in this class before and attempt to carry on a conversation in Rat about the events of this past weekend.

I am told there was singing. You do not need to sing in Rat.

Take notes on your conversations, as they will feed into a group project we will begin on Thursday.

I will be holding office hours this afternoon should you have questions.

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Blair looks around for a partner

Xander waves and joins him, but it's a small, grumpy wave. "Could we have had anything but this weekend as a discussion topic? Like, I dunno, fleabites in uncomfortable places? That'd be an improvement. I bet rats talk about that a lot."

Blair grinned and bounced. "I gather you didn't enjoy the singing this weekend? We can talk about the not singing part, although I didn't mind so much. I apparently learned to tap dance."

There wasn't actually much of the not-singing part that Xander was cleared to talk about, he was pretty sure. Still, there was always the not-Xander part.

"Tap-dance? Really?"

Oh yeah, they were supposed to be speaking Rat.

And... rats had a word for tap-dance. Why did this surprise him less than it should? Possibly his threshhold for brain-breaky really had been completely broken this weekend.

//Rat-a-tat-tat feet? Really?//

//Yeah then disco dancing on a tablet// Blair frowned.

//Tassel//

//Teacup?// "Whatever, I mean table." Blair shrugged.

//Eat any twinkies lately?// Blair wasn't all surprised that twinkie seemed to be a universal word.

//Yeah, I--//

A second's flashback to this morning's shop class made Xander twitch. Dammit, Twinkies should never be an off-limits conversation topic; it just wasn't right.

He forced himself to grin. //I had some in wood machine class.//

"Crichton"

// stuck his to the wall with //

Xander frowned and shrugged.

// silver stuck...y thing.//

"Which is a crime against God and rat."

Blair's jaw dropped. //That's rotten cheese, man.//

"You okay?"

//Stinky overripe Velveeta, for genuine.// Xander nodded.

//But I'll live.// "John" //swore me a box of Twinkies for//

Uh.

//Happy couple chocolate heart day?//

That could not possibly be right.

Blair translated that in his head and blinked. He was pretty sure that John had a girlfriend...but maybe it was an open relationship.

//That's sweet of him to give you gifts//

//It's to make up for--//

Ok, even Xander wasn't stupid enough to try to translate 'molesting' which was the first word that popped into his head.

//uh...performing violent experiments with Twinkies.//

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