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[vitaelamorte.livejournal.com]

Here's a super fun planning post for the event the Cheshire Cat just announced. If you haven't friended him yet...

Why not? 8(

Anyway, this is where you post to plan for the event. If you want your character to speak a new language instead of their native language, go for it! Same goes for if you don't know what language your character speaks or it's some made up fantasy language.

As always, there's a Q&A thread for any questions.

Comments

+ Q&A +

[vitaelamorte.livejournal.com]

Got questions? Shoot!

HA! I could think of a question after all.

[sadfreezingbrit.livejournal.com]

So automatic translation has been removed, but could characters still get dictionaries or phrase books from the closets and the library or are those unavailable during the event?

+ Q&A +

[vampire-kingxx.livejournal.com]

Small question what if your character is an ancient super old vampire king who would most likely know multiple languages? Would it be fine of he could understand a majourity of different languages aside the one he speaks of course >

[itsahotone.livejournal.com]

.......this is will be fun. XD Santana only speaks English and uh, who knows how much Spanish.

/pointless comment

OKAY, after thinking about it more, I have decided that she will be stuck speaking Spanish the whole time. :D

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

Yujinn: A handful of made-up fantasy languages. Yay, the healer is unable to communicate!

Hubb: English, French, German, Arabic, Lingua Franca, a handful of North Africa tribal languages, and some Russian.

Ivanova: Russian, English, Minbarri

Jean: A made up fantasy languages. I want to pick a new language for her. Plotwise, is there anyone out there who feels like having a badass and yet terribly naive young woman dependent on them for communication? I haven't traumatized this muse yet.

Ryuho: Japanese.

Kura: While he only speaks his own language, Kura has a translator chip which will allow him to understand any human language he hears.
Verbally, his language will be understandable to those who speak latin.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

Ivanova can also apparently read Hebrew, or enough to get by.

[vampire-kingxx.livejournal.com]

LOL poor Yujinn. Don't worry... despite having a fantasy language to speak himself, I assumed he might be able to speak other languages and understand him... cuz he's a vampire... vampires are ancient... and yeah... >.> haha he can be translator orz

hahhahahahahaahha XDDDD

/WORD VOMIT :DD [Now with decisive edit!]

[angel-junk.livejournal.com]

Lamb
English. I'm sticking to the only language she's shown to speak in canon. It seems likely that she knows more than that (e.g. some Japanese from her missionary work, quite possibly Latin), but during the event I'll reduce those to the vaguely annoying feeling that she should understand more than she does.

Bhamba
Persian. His MadSciencelovanian (TM) accent makes me think he didn't grow up speaking English (exclusively), so I'll have him revert to his native language (which I sneakily pulled from my headcanon).

Elle
n/a. I forgot that she's probably already masked and out of commission.

Philip
SUDDENLY SWEDISH FOR NOOOOO REASON WHATSOEVER.
French. Speaks English in canon. May or may not know some amount of something else (well, that wasn't vague at all). Will be blatantly supplied with a piece of pure headcanon for the purpose of this event. Clarence retains whatever l33t alien language skills he has, but will be of no use whatsoever either way.

[thisisherson.livejournal.com]

Nitori: I thiiiink he's going to stay with Japanese, unless someone else has a better idea. He'll be adorable though, with all his -sans and -kuns and "A-Ano..."s and whatnot.

Yukino: I HAVEN'T MADE UP MY MIND. Canonly, she speaks Japanese, and probably as much English as a model student would know. There's also the distinct possibility that she might know some Chinese, but that's less certain? Anyway, I have no idea what she'll be speaking during the event yet. orz. I'll figure something out eventually.

Kurt: He canonly knows quite a bit of French, so he'll be stuck exclusively with that during the event, because I'm mean. Besides, after being stuck as half a fish, having a chance to show off his near fluency will be good for his ego. (14 1/2 minute Celine Dion solo! In French!)

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Burt will be confused by Kurt speaking Foreign all the time :|

[hurricanebomber.livejournal.com]

Gokudera: I'm ditching his Japanese and he'll be stuck with only Italian. Enabling him to communicate exclusively with psychopathic killers.

Ryohei: JAPANESE TO THE EXTREME. Which is basically a language all on its own.

Rei: She's Japanese, but canonly can at least read German. It's probably fair to say she understands a few other languages, probably European, as well, but I don't want to go too much with headcanon here. She's going to be stuck with spoken Latin (as opposed to church Latin) and German. No Japanese.

Kayako: I'm not even going to go there.

Nagi: Nagi will be stuck with something other than his native language. I haven't decided what yet, though.

Yuu: Japanese.

Karkat: He's going to be stuck with Alternian and I'm ignoring the fact that he can apparently understand and write in English just fine in the comic.

[angel-junk.livejournal.com]

Kayako can just substitute for the system and translate for everyone in the mansion, Y/Y?

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

So, Kura can still talk to Rei? (No, he's not a creeper at all...)

[mydadsadentist.livejournal.com]

it has been concluded that mercedes will speak horrible high school taught by mr. schuester type spanish this entire event.

nobody is el safe.

[airplanecups.livejournal.com]

FINN UNDERSTANDS EL PAINO.

[blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com]

Y'ALL BEST GET READY FOR SOME

And Alex will speak... I'll decide when I don't have an essay to write. :|

[blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com]

why, pink sparkletext

why have you forsaken me

[inimicous.livejournal.com]

Justin went to school in Nevada, so he knows English. He may know Japanese, if only because Shinigami as a concept is so deeply rooted in Japanese culture. It helps justify the use of -san and -sama because there are no clear-cut English equivalents to those prefixes.

Since he was in Europe for several years, he's bound to have picked up parts of the languages spoken there. He'll speak fluent or broken languages found in Northern, Western and Southern Europe. I exclude Eastern Europe because it's supervised by another Europe-in-charge. There's a chance he knows bits of Latin and Hebrew because of his priest motif, but I'm limiting it to very, very basic root words or cutting them altogether. What is this lingo mess, I don't even. If anyone wants to check in with a character who speaks an European language, just hit me up here.

[hurricanebomber.livejournal.com]

Totally hitting you with Italian. 8)

[b-loodflower.livejournal.com]

Alice?- Technically speaking he should only speak English. And British English to be more specific. BUT HE KEEPS MAKING THESE JAPANESE JOKES AND YEAH. unless there's some weird Lewis Carrollnese or something. I...guess I'll stick with British English. not that i know British ;;

Japan- Obviously he should speak that apparently universal Hetalian that all countries use to communicate. I'M NOT IMAGINING THAT RIGHT? I swear it was somewhere in the comics.

Nai - lol His odd Kanji using yet German sounding language.

Nozomu - This guy can only speak Japanese. He absolutely refuses to know anything about other countries.

Conan - His fail Osaka dialect He can speak English and Japanese fluently. And well..IT FEELS LIKE HE CAN SPEAK MOST OF THE MAJOR LANGUAGES except Portuguese. I'll stick with English.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, Universal Hetalian. Mmmmh... uh, could they use that to humans, or does it just mean Japan can communicate with Liet and Poland? (Who can communicate with one another either way.)

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

POLAND:
-Polish: Completely fluent (duh). His idiolect seems oddly unrooted in any one time period, not that anyone the Hell else speaks enough Polish to tell.
-Latin: Reads and writes it fluently, speaks Church!Latin quite well.
-Lithuanian: Speaks... a little? It totally never seemed super important. Liet's words are like, weird. He really hasn't gotten the hang of it, honestly.
-Hungarian: Bits and pieces of it. Hungary's his broski, after all!
-Yiddish: He's really quite down with his Jewish minority, and can read a little bit and pick up bits and pieces; can't write, though, or speak enough to communicate with any semblance of efficacy.
-German and Russian: Practically none. He'll learn them later, but right now, pfft, who cares?

THE MEDICINE SELLER:
-Japanese: Fluent, if somewhat archaic. Modern Japanese speakers might react to him as modern English speakers to someone who couldn't slip out of Shakespearean!English. Doesn't know any other languages, beyond perhaps a smattering of written Chinese (from researching his medicines, don't you know?)

BURT HUMMEL:
-English: Native fluency, fairly unremarkable idiolect. Doesn't know any others.

[timisnotme.livejournal.com]

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[hurricanebomber.livejournal.com]

BEST

EVER

[skater-lynx.livejournal.com]

Haru: Japanese!
Seimei:Seimei actually speaks the language Asshat which he learned from being a complete douche. Kidding. He speaks Japanese (Surprise!)
Seeu: Seeu speaks normally in his dead language of Asu. However, He has a chip in his head that translates what other people say and has communicated with someone who speaks (although it's pre WWII Japanese) Japanese without a chip.
Loud Howard: LOUD ENGLISH!

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

/sob I want more characters

anyway

Lithuanian, Polish: fluent
Latin, German, Russian (a couple of variations of the latter two): he can get by
A couple of words of the other languages around him, like Old Prussian etc.

In other words.

Nobody but Poland can understand him because the only language of the ones that are listened above that has not significantly changed over the last 600 years is Lithuanian. /sob what is life

okay, unless you character speaks Latin, that is, then he can at least idk, tell you that the horse is eating, all those sentences that you leanr a language with...

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Rei might be able to get the gist of what he's saying if he speaks German. :|a And she can do Latin, so between the two they could probably have simple conversations.

[totallycheerio.livejournal.com]

Brittany will be speaking gibberish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberish_(language_game)). The "-idig-" version of gibberish is what I decided to go with.

Example→ Didigid yidigou knidigow thidigat didigolph-idigins idigare jidigust gidigay shidigarks? ("Did you know that Dolphin's are just gay sharks?")

Simple, right?

[thisisherson.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that's so beautiful and perfect. XD ♥

Vain's haul.

[terrierfancy.livejournal.com]

Slick will be writing in binary because he's a computer program.

Cid is obviously speaking 'English', but he speaks to the only Japanese kids in the series just fine so I'm going to go with English, Japanese, and Binary because he's a genius and a MASTER with codes and weird things like that :|

...and I'm dropping Scratch, but he would have spoken Alternian, I guess.

[amagicalwitch.livejournal.com]

Kanaya will be speaking Alternian and that English thing. Since they do that just fine all over the place.

[hurricanebomber.livejournal.com]

She will have to translate for Karkat, who is stuck with just Alternian. :| WON'T THAT BE FUN?