Song #5 - Video

[fourwayconnection]

Yo! So, that New Years party from a couple weeks back got me thinking.

[Kirikou seems pretty settled, if slightly annoyed, as he pets a Solrock that's decided the perfect place to put its rocky and spiny little self is right in his lap.]

I'm not going to pretend to understand how language in this freakin' place works, or ask anyone else to try and explain it to me because I still won't understand, but I am curious about something.

What kind of language do you speak back home? Anyone speak French or Brazilian Portuguese?

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[pinnedbangs]

[The question was "what language do you speak back home" and the speaker was pretty clear about not asking about how language works in route.

IT WAS CLEAR AS CRYSTAL.]

...What language are we speaking now?! I thought we were all speaking Japanese!!

[-- well. He did provide an answer. Kinda sorta not really.]

[fourwayconnection]

[Thank you for your contribution, Rin.]

Dude, I don't know even a tiny bit of Japanese. I mean, I shouldn't. I know English, French, and Portuguese, and that's it.

[Which is pretty impressive for a teenager, admittedly, but no Japanese on there.]

[pinnedbangs]

No way... How do you know so many? Are you some sort of genius?

[It would be so freakin' cool if he could say more than a few words in English. DUDE. IMAGINE HOW IMPRESSIVE HE WOULD SOUND.]

[fourwayconnection]

Dude, no, I'm dumb as hell.

[Seriously. He has flunked every single written test he's ever taken. It is a horror show. Ox doesn't know what to do with him.]

I just learned them from my parents- French from my mom, Portuguese from my dad. And, well, I grew up in America, so...

[pinnedbangs]

Seriously? Still, that's cool!

[HE WANTS TO LEARN LANGUAGES FROM HIS PARENTS -- wait a second no. He can technically talk to demons but that hardly counted... And again, Rin displays his phenomenal listening skills.]

Do you have to know all those languages to live in America?

[stitchedupbodyguard]

I speak English, Japanese, and a bit of some other languages...

[Veronica's eyes widened as the realization of what he was talking about hit her like a ton of bricks.

Oh. wow pokemon world.]

So, language works differently here.

[fourwayconnection]

Tell me about it! Like, when you actually start to think about it, your brain starts to break, right?

[Sure as hell broke his.]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Yeah...

[This... wow.]

Maybe it's just another side effect of whatever brought us all here?

[fourwayconnection]

...A side effect?

[He hadn't thought of that.]

[crouching_sin]

Je parle les deux langues. I speak both of those. But my primary language at home is Japanese.

[fourwayconnection]

[YES. HELL YES.]

[Kirikou breaks into a wide grin at the sound of his mother's language, and immediately shifts into French himself.]

You have no idea how awesome that is to hear! I usually only got to hear this sort of thing when I was traveling on missions! You're Japanese then, right? How'd you get to learning this?

[crouching_sin]

Missions? What is it that you do?

And ah... I've learned every language I can get my hands on. I simply enjoy learning. It's just another subject to master.

[It's not entirely untrue.]

[fourwayconnection]

I'm a student at the DWMA. We protect people.

And wow, that's pretty intense. How many do you know?

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[walkersystem]

_{[... uh, that's a rock in your lap. But okay.]}

I speak English. Aren't everybody speaking that here?

[video]

[fourwayconnection]

[Yes. Yes it is.]

No no no- like, you think you're speaking English, but then when you seriously think about it when you're talking, it's like- what the hell is this?

And there's apparently a bunch of people who don't speak English, but somehow still understand everyone else. It's weird as hell.

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[walkersystem]

_{[... okay, she's thinking about it now, trying to identify what he's telling her.]}

... I've talked to a lot of people with names that don't sound English. So I guess you're right.

That's probably a good thing though. It's easier than if we'd have to signal each other or something.

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[fourwayconnection]

Oh, yeah, definitely, but it's still super weird, right? I think my brain'd break completely if I thought about it too much.

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[solas_ion]

I try not to think about it much. Gives me a headache.

[Ah, language fuckery.]

As for me, my native language's...kinda archaic, I guess you'd call it. But I speak Japanese well enough, too.

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[fourwayconnection]

Man, that's what I said... Weird bullshit, seriously.

[And it's weirder than the animals that can breathe fire and teleport, frankly.]

Really? Why'd you learn Japanese?

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[solas_ion]

Long story.

['I got it magically shoved in my head because I was summoned in Japan using an arcane ritual and it'd be really inconvenient if I couldn't speak the language.']

Spent a little time there, y'know?

[video]

[fourwayconnection]

I guess that makes sense... I've never been to Japan, but one of my friends is half-Japanese. No offense, but it always seemed a bit like a weird place to me.

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[majorcrotchgrab]

I speak Russian and English. I noticed for a while that I actually had to concentrate to speak my native language the first few months I was here. Sort of like what I was trying to say was... auto-translated, if that makes sense.

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[fourwayconnection]

No, yeah, I get you. Feels freaky, right?

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[majorcrotchgrab]

It does. Seems more natural now though. Speaking in my native tongue, I mean.

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[fourwayconnection]

That's good to hear then, I guess. Probably just another weird thing everyone has to get used to, and then it stops being weird the longer you're here.