[voice]

[unetrustworthy]

I was wondering...how many other people here can speak other languages?

[But then, she paused and there was a slight jostling of the camera as she shook her head.  Sorting out her thoughts.]

No,  not speak.  That doesn't really help any, with everything always being translated for us.  More like...read.  I was wondering...what languages everyone here can read?  Since written words have never been translated.  Not since I've been here.

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Voice

[schrodingersghost]

Does Esperanto count?

Voice

[unetrustworthy]

[If it was a legitimate language, and he could read it well enough, then sure.]

What's...Esperanto? I've never heard of that language before.

Voice

[schrodingersghost]

It's an artificial language. My friend Tuck says that it's only purpose these days is to let nerds talk to other nerds.

[Danny had learned it because one ghost he knew didn't speak anything else. ]

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

I'm not sure mine would help too much...although it does depend where you're from.

[unetrustworthy]

Earth. Southern France, specifically. In the year After Colony 190.

[Sometimes the when made a difference. Sometimes it didn't.]

And it doesn't matter so much if you think it can help or not. I'm mostly curious. There's been a lot of talk about languages lately. I wanted to know...just how many of them are being hidden by the translator magic that lets us all speak to each other.

[redlightgreenlight]

I am fluent in several languages, ancient and modern. I am also...passable in a few others.

[You learn a few things when you have lived twenty five hundred years.]

Is there something in particular you needed help with?

[unetrustworthy]

[Midii shook her head.]

At the moment, no.

But...the more I've been reading in the languages I already know, the more I wonder how many more are out there. And if there are...how many I might be able to learn.

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[bostonhowler]

I can speak and read Gaelic, as well as Latin, but can also read Ogham.

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[unetrustworthy]

[Gaelic, she had heard of, and she was familiar enough with Latin, as her native tongue was one of the Romance languages. However...]

Ogham?

[celticromanstone]

Depends on what you want translated.

[ She speaks and reads a few languages. ]

[unetrustworthy]

[Midii smiled sheepishly at that. She was never very good at public speaking, and it was beginning to dawn on her that she should have made her motives a little more clear from the start.]

[Oh, well. No harm, really, in having to elaborate in conversation.]

You make it sound like you know a lot.

voice

[pompous_today]

I am fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

voice

[unetrustworthy]

[He wouldn't be able to see, of course, but Midii smiled on the other end. Unsurprised by his answer.]

English definitely seems to be the most commonly spoken language here. That's why I had to learn, even before I started learning kedanese.

Do you mind if I ask where you learned? Or did you family speak both?

[ voice ]

[sensitively]

I have to admit that I can only read Aurebesh, which is the transcribed form of Basic, the most commonly-used tongue in the galaxy. I can speak a number of others, but I've never tried to transcribe them in written form.

What is it exactly that you wish to read? Is there something written in another language you've found?

[ voice ]

[unetrustworthy]

[There was a pause on Midii's end, as her face twisted into an (unseen) pout of confusion.]

I've...never heard of either of those languages before.

May I ask...where they're from?

Voice;

[purrns]

I'm fluent in French and Mandarin Chinese if that helps any.

It's not a bad idea, though. We can never be too prepared, especially if whatever magic is translating things for us suddenly stops working. Though that's not so much an issue anyway with the written stuff, right?

Voice;

[unetrustworthy]

[It was hard not to smile at the first part of Adrien's answer. Though she'd already known he was French, it was always nice to have that small reminded of the presence of fellow native speakers. So that, if the magic that allowed everyone to communicate regardless of tongue, she would still have someone to speak French with.]

No, it's not. As far as I know, written as never been translated. Either in person, or over the Network.

That was one of the reasons why I had to start learning English. It seemed like everybody here at one point spoke it, but few of them spoke more than a few words of French.

[no_light]

I write in Aurebesh, the alphabet used for Basic. Are you asking out of idle curiosity or are you planning to work on this problem?

[unetrustworthy]

Both, really.

[The though had been mulled over thanks to an idle curiosity, but she did have a genuine interest in working on it.]

I want to keep learning, but it doesn't make sense to learn things that aren't going to help me any. So I wanted to know which languages might be worth learning here.

[mrsarcastic003]

I can speak and read a few languages from twentieth century Earth. Why do you ask?

[unetrustworthy]

Because I wanted to know.

[...did that sound precocious? Because she was trying to work on that. Really. But it was also the truth. She only ever asked questions when she had an invested interest in them.]

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[dislocked]

A few. Why?

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[unetrustworthy]

[...well, for one, so that she would be able to read message such as these. Which she could, thanks to years of practice.]

I want to know. To learn.

[justno]

I know English. I can read a little bit of a few languages. Japanese, Latin, a couple magic ones. It's pretty easy to learn if you need to.

What do you speak?

[unetrustworthy]

[She opened her mouth to question, then paused. Figuring it was better manners to answer his question before asking her own:]

French and Japanese. Fluently. And I've been studying English and Kedanese since I've been here.

[And now that that was settled....]

What...magic languages are there? Do you mean, like the lady at the Welcome Center who talks backwards?