Language LOL: Translator Malfunction

[rumham]

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...

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Comments

[dembonyhips]

Oh thank everything ever he released her. Immediately upon being released, Fortyskey immediately relaxes, it's almost a visible change in attitude.

Still, she crosses her arms. "Depends on how long this fucking bullshit lasts. Anyway."

Firstly, she rattles off something Harrow will immediately recognize as the guttural dialect that's Orcish, then switches so something that sounds like a bastardized version of Common, but doesn't translate, and she finishes off with something in Demonic.

Then she switches back to Common, "Orcish, Forsaken, Demonic," she counts off on her fingers, "I can understand some of the fucking Blood Elf language, but not enough to converse, and I can recognize most of the other languages from our world, even if I don't know what the fuck they're saying."

[westfallcorndog]

Harrow listens to Forty with a novel smile on his face. She's so talented! He's learning interesting things about his little frenemy.

"Demonic kinda sounds like Draenei, don't it? Guess it makes sense when you think about it." Huh.

Oh! "Thalassian! I know one thing, here."

He clears his throat, pauses with his eyes closed, and then begins to sing. His voice is soft, and while he's no professional he's had enough practice to at least be decent and do the song some justice -- though the elves would certainly disagree.

"Anar'alaaah, Anar'alaaah beloreee.
Sin'doreeeei.
Shindu fallah naaaa,
Sin'doooreeei."

He smiles at Forty, and because he's sure he's fucked it up he says, "Lament of the Highborne. I heard Sylvanas sings it real good, but I wouldn't know. Don't think I wanna get close enough to find out, either."

Then he gestures at Forty and says, "You like to sing? I know a dirty Dwarven song that's right up your alley I bet."

[dembonyhips]

"Kinda, but from what I've heard of how Draenei speak their language, Demonic's more forceful." Admittedly, it hasn't been much. With the possible exception of a Draenei Death Knight, Fortyskey hasn't been around too many of them too often, since as Bringers of the Light, they're typically not terribly fond of the Undead.

Especially a fel-fire flinging, worse than a sailor cussing, no fucks given, completely horrible influence undead like Fortyskey, who doesn't really bother to, well. Hide any of that.

Seriously, doing the Exodar scenario with Light's Heart was really awkward for her player to think about.

"I can cuss in Dwarven, for all the fucking good it does me. And I've probably heard it at this point at least once."