fandomhigh | Summer Session 2, Scoobying Workshop #4, Afternoon 8/01/2006 (Main Campfire)

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Xander is standing in front of the unlit campfire holding up a book in one hand. He's being careful not to get soot on it because yo, Tev'Meckian/English Dictionary. In hardback. Plus it was a present.

"Hi, my name's Xander and I'm -- prepare yourselves -- a geek. But despite the huge pains I take to hide that fact, I felt I should confess it today for the good of studentkind, since sometimes it actually comes in handy."

He coughs, then says in a gravelly voice, "Pef trom grabthar, kep mok frutwux!"

"Okay, a real Tev'Meckian would totally laugh at my accent, if there were real Tev'Meckians. But who else besides them or a bunch of Questarians -- who are pretty rarely evil -- are gonna have a clue what I just said?"

He waves the book. "This is a totally invented language, which means the speaking population is limited to... well, geeks. That makes it really useful for talking in front of people you're pretty sure aren't. Real languages are great too, if you happen to be lucky enough that your whole team speaks one that most people around you don't, but the made-up ones are a lot easier to come by.

No, I'm not gonna make you learn Tev'Meck. It's three hundred pages long and just reading a translation of The Cat In The Hat almost gave me laryngitis once. But there are other invented languages that are a lot easier to learn, and I've got a worksheet for you on one of them.

It sounds simple, but when you speak it fast enough it's pretty much just, well. Gibberish. Except to you and whoever you're talking to. If you practice enough, you can rattle off an entire conversation in front of your teacher without her realizing you're planning on sneaking out to giant irradiated Kep Mok blood ticks during the filmstrip --- which, uh is bad and you should totally not do mm'kay -- and if they start to catch on, at that point you'll probably be good enough at it that you can invent your own."

Xander grins. "So today you can spend the whole workshop yakking to each other about anything you want to yak about -- but the catch is, you have to do it in Gibberish."

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[Open! Posted early because I'll be afk all morning teaching stuff that is sadly less fun.]

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Isabel raised an eyebrow. "Idig kidigidnidigapped yidigour fidigrog. Pidig midige cidighocidiglidigate."

"P you chocolate?" Xander asked, pretending to be deeply confused. "And at the top of the list of talents Xander doesn't have..."

"Pidigay me chocolate," she laughed. "This is harder then it looks at first."

"Ahhhhhhhhh, see that I can do." Because he had his laptop with him. Xander pressed the glowy blue button, and was rewarded with a Hershey's kiss, which he presented to Isabel.

Isabel blinked. "Damn, Bridge is good." She unwrapped the chocolate quickly because she was pretty sure it was going to start melting quickly in the heat. "Okay, your frog is safe now."

"Oh good, 'cause I was worried there for a minute. I think he may be allergic to Tabasco."

"Well I have an epi-pen in my first aid kit. I could use that on him if he needed it," Isabel said jokingly. "You know I'd never her the poor little purple guy."

"Not even for chocolate, nope," Xander said, nodding. "That's devotion, there."

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