Creature Languages, Period 3, 2/23

[swerval_zero]

The students are greeted as they enter not by Professor Dream*, but by a small pink kitten sitting on the desk next to the sign-in sheet. Well, they will be once someone looks directly at her. Until then, the small pink kitten? Adorable, but invisible.

A stack of Cat vocabulary sheets are sitting next to the adorable pink kitten. The following is written on the board behind her:

We will be having a very special class on Cat today. Please greet your guest speaker, me, Zero Hopeless-Savage.

1. Conversation. Talk with Kitty Zero on any subject. Your end of the conversation should ideally be in Cat, however, if your limited vocabulary or the limits of the human body prevent this, feel free to use English. Kitten Zero understands it. Since Cat is such a body language-intensive language, if your statement requires actions thought vulgar by humans, please use English. Then repeat back to Kitten Zero what you think she said, in English. She will tell you if you're correct or not.

If all else fails, one mew for yes, two for no.

2. Comprehension. Kitten Zero will recite a short passage. Record what you think she said.

3. Discussion. Ask Human Zero about facets of the Cat language or Cat culture you would like to know more about. Please remember that her experience is limited.

*Unless Professor Dream is present.

((OCD threads are up! Go for it! But please remember that due to a class this afternoon, I may be doing the dance of slowplay.))

Comments

Conversation

[swerval_zero]

Talk with kitty!Zero.

Re: Conversation

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

/Um...do mice taste like chicken?/ asks Draco.

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[swerval_zero]

For a moment, Zero's whole posture is one of a cat deeply offended. She is, after all, a Real Girl and not a cat. But then she reassumes her neutral position to respond, //I wouldn't know. I've never eaten a mouse.//

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi checks her list.

/I know you are not normal a cat Less-Then-One. How did you get this form today?/

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[swerval_zero]

/Professor Skeeter--/ Zero pauses, realizing that the rest of the class will not recognize her sign for 'Skeeter.' /Teacher who-changes-people, she changed me./

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[anole-x.livejournal.com]

//Why don't cats like...//

Victor's eye widened when he saw the translation for the word he was looking for. "Okay, there's no way I'm saying that..." He looked at kitten!Zero and said in English, "Water."

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[swerval_zero]

/Smart boy. Have you ever tried to lick a full coat of fur dry? It's not fun./

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair studied the sheet and smiled at kitty!Zero.

/Do you have friends who are cats and do you stay friends once you are/ Blair shrugged and outlined a vaguely Zero-shape outline in the air /people again?/

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[swerval_zero]

If Zero had eyebrows in cat form, one of them would have gone up at Blair's representation of her form. /No. I smell strange to other cats. They don't quite trust me./

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

/Hello. You make a pretty not quite red cat. Do you work in the big room with books?/

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[swerval_zero]

Kitty!Zero preens. /This I have been told. Yes, I work in the library./

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[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

//How are you enjoying being a cat again?\\ Paige asks in near perfect Cat

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[swerval_zero]

/It's quite nice, actually, when I know an end is in sight./

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[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake tilted his head, and tried to think of something to ask. "Um. /Do you have litter-mates?/"

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[swerval_zero]

/Littermates, no, siblings, yes. I have three. All older than me./

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[soldtoarmenians]

/ Hi / "Zero," Xander said, frowning at his vocab sheet.

/Haughty acknowledgement that you have provided the food and/or attention that I as a cat am due/

He blinked. "It says that means thank you."

/for saving/

"Logan"

/and me from the scary book place at shiny balls that knock off tree and break easy holiday./

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[swerval_zero]

For a moment, Zero is distracted by a dust mote, and scampers madly about the desk chasing it. /What? Oh. You are quite welcome. I wouldn't want to do the paperwork if we'd never gotten you out./

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly looked at the vocabulary sheet carefully. After a bit of practice she was ready to talk to kitten!Zero.

She started with a wave in greeting. /Happy pink. Yay, pink. Why pink?/

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[swerval_zero]

/I don't know. I used to be yellow, before I dyed my hair pink. Now, I guess I should be green, but I'm not./

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[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

Sakura fidgets with the vocabulary sheet, pondering.

//So, is there a specific reason your fur is...// She paused, frowning when 'pink' wasn't on the list. She weighed the chances of her guessing it properly, then finally just finished her sentence in English. "...pink?"

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[swerval_zero]

/I think it's a magic thing? My hair used to be dyed pink. But now it's green, you know. So...yeah. Magical holdover, perhaps?/

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[stykera]

//Hello//

Stark nods to the kitty and checks his vocabulary sheet briefly.

//Are you cat a lot?//

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[swerval_zero]

/Last year I was. But not now./

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[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

/When you are in Most-Exalted form like today.../ Vala frowns at how that came out and double checks her vocabulary sheet, then shrugs. "Cat = Most Exalted" Oookay... /what most do you like to do that you can not do when are/ she frowned again /'stinky ape' shape/?

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[swerval_zero]

Zero considers this for a moment. /Make other people do things for me. And chase sunbeams. That's fun./