rumham: (Huh?!)
rumham ([personal profile] rumham) wrote in [community profile] nexus_crossings2018-01-18 11:54 am
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Language LOL: Translator Malfunction

You know what's cool? Chatting with your pals. Reading the Internet. Navigating the roads because you can understand the Gods-damned street signs. You know what's not cool? Not being able to do any of that. By that metric, one might describe today in the Nexus decidedly uncool.

It's utterly without warning that the multiversal hub goes from automatic to manual translation. Shop signs, radio and television broadcasts, conversations on the streets between vendors and friends and businesspeople are suddenly a jarring cacophony of dissonant languages. Then there's the silence. Then there's the shouting. Turns out people get pissed off when nobody understands them!

Momentary chaos dies down as the average people of the Nexus come to grips with their new situation. Shopkeepers wait outside their stores and stands with expectant expressions, impatiently waiting for the translator to pull itself together and start working again.

Except...

It sort of doesn't.

No, it super doesn't.

Citizens of the Nexus, it would appear you're going to have to adjust...

((The temporary LANGUAGE LOL is now underway! It's freeform fun until you're done and participation is completely optional. Don't feel like this event should stop you from making threads which are unaffected by the LOL in the mean time. If you want your Language LOL'd character to interact with a non-LOL thread, please ask the OP if they want to play that dynamic first. For the OOC and organization post, GO HERE. ))
boldygoing: (Eyebrows)

[personal profile] boldygoing 2018-01-19 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's an easy one to interpret. No is still no; there wasn't much reason to give up such a concise word in favor of anything else. "Shit," Jim replies, but he doesn't look terribly surprised. As far as curses or whatever go, this is a hell of a lot more harmless than his first time was. At least this time, he isn't compelled to babble endlessly about whatever passing thought floats through his head.

"We'll moet do charaydes," he says, cocking an eyebrow at Hunter. "Or mataara Natasha; she sprek Russky. Russian?" he corrects himself. That's the word Hunter used. Archaic as fuck, but all right.
Edited 2018-01-19 04:13 (UTC)
losthunter: (seeking my soulmate)

[personal profile] losthunter 2018-01-19 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Charades?" Hunter arches an eyebrow. That would just make things more confusing.

Then he recognizes another familiar word. "Natasha. I know her. Let's find her."