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...

((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. ))

Comments

[mudblood_andproud]

"I would be interested in learning some of the Terra and Xeno languages, at another time." Hermione smiles. She is using this LOL as a chance to improve herself.

[smartass_captain]

"Yeah? Is fun times Xenoling mostways. I nosay many but sprekker all Federationling. Nowsay Hermione sprekker old ooooooooold English. Hark, yonder, et cetera. Yousaying....classical ling? Er. Old English."

Jim points at Hermione then. She sounds different to him too.

"Sprekker otherling?"

[mudblood_andproud]

"Thou are hearing me speak Old English?" Hermione wages another guess. "It might be the difference of time between our worlds."

"I can speakth one other Terra language. Bulgarian."

[smartass_captain]

"Bulgarian? Noexpect det possible. Skann? Relatives??"

Jim leads Hermione over toward one of the couches. Their conversation is a strange one but not completely impossible. Besides, talking about language is pretty interesting even if they're both in a bit deep at the moment.

[mudblood_andproud]

Hermione follows his lead. Still keeping an eye out for Crookshanks.

"Ex-boyfriend." Hermione answers his question. "He and I were a serious item for a few years."

[smartass_captain]

"I see."

Oops. Well, she doesn't seem that broken up to talk about it, so maybe it's not a sore subject. Still, Jim tries to focus on the language part rather than the 'ex' part.

"Hermione sprekker Bulgarian nowsay? Teach? Showme."

[mudblood_andproud]

If there is one thing Hermione can understand, is the desire to be taught something new.

"Аз съм having интересен време днес, обучение за различни езици. Как са работа за ситуацията, Джим?" She speaks to him in Bulgarian.

[smartass_captain]

This time Jim doesn't seem irritated at all about not understanding Hermione. His eyes are lit up listening to her speak, a smile on his face.

"Bulagian soundyes Russky! Nosame but kahwa. Dasneet."