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...

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brother_alone: (You think so?)

[personal profile] brother_alone 2018-01-27 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Josh eases himself off of the bench and sits down on the cold ground next to Faris. Watches the lizardman's tail twitch thoughtfully before he starts scratching out the symbol in the ground. It makes him smile, at least a little bit.

"No, I'll be alright." He shakes his head and smiles again a bit wider. Makes a coughing motion and then points to his head. "Sick. In the head. Not hurt."
poetwarrior: (Headshot)

[personal profile] poetwarrior 2018-01-31 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Faris is not entirely certain that he understands correctly, but Josh does not appear to need proper medical attention, so he tilts his head in acceptance of that answer. Still, humans surely benefit from social interaction also, and a lack of easy communication is not deterrent to the K'da.

He puts his claw to the ground again, this time scratching out the Earth letters O and K, before looking back up at Josh, his lower jaw slightly open in a K'da smile. "Iou-ni. Meh bheu en kois tu." It matters not that Josh cannot understand him. He is more than content to keep the human company while they wait.