[036] Voice

[poppingseeds]

I just had a thought...

I'm not speaking Greek, am I?

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Voice chat: Warm friendly tone

[egyptianmage]

Probably not. I've learned several languages just by exposure. It's likely you've done the same.

[Voice]

[poppingseeds]

Oh, I suppose...

It was just so odd to realize I wasn't speaking it.

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[egyptianmage]

Well, the only other option I can think of is that this compound has a magical field that allows for instant translation of languages.

[Voice]

[poppingseeds]

Perhaps...

I suppose this gives me something to do, figuring this out. [laughs]

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[transparentdark]

[He sounds somewhat preoccupied at the moment, but otherwise neutral.]

You didn't have to apologize. I daresay I deserved the attitude. Are you still planning on turning me into a tree, though? Really, I do know a few people who'd be quite pleased to hear of that.

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[poppingseeds]

[manages a laugh] Only if you try to hurt me.

I can make them back down, should you like. You've done nothing.

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[transparentdark]

I'm not one for violence unless I have to use it. Even then, there's usually a reason for it. Unproductive otherwise, really.

If you wish. One doesn't seem so keen on putting my head on a pike anymore; rather agreeable fellow once you talk to him.

Though, I was thinking more along the lines of my other various enemies and pursuers. They won't be hard-pressed to catch me if I was a tree.

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[poppingseeds]

Oh. Wonderful. I suppose that's reassuring in some sense.

I take it you have many? It certainly sounds like it.

[nocturncoat]

Not that I noticed. Then again, I've been using spells to speak to people on other worlds so often in the past four years that I've never been able to tell whether everyone's speaking the same language or not in this place...

[poppingseeds]

Someone else mentioned that might be why I didn't notice -- a spell. Or else everyone else is just speaking Greek.

If not, I'm certainly speaking more in my natural tongue. [faint smirk in her voice]

[nocturncoat]

I can speak Greek - but I have to actually think about it to do it. If we're all speaking one language, then we must be speaking English, because I'm not thinking hard enough to speak anything else.

[poppingseeds]

Oh, well... Perhaps I'll just have to think to use Greek, then.

[Voice]

[machines_talk]

Don't think so. Leastaways, I'm not hearin' Greek.

Are you hearin' Greek when other folk speak?

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[poppingseeds]

[pauses, studying what Kaylee has just said]

...English. Odd. I can tell when you're not speaking it, though, when you start talking in that one language...

How very strange. I didn't really think about it until today when I was writing something next to a book and noticed something off about the letters. And then I said something aloud in Greek and it sounded so very, very strange.

I'm not all that worried about it, really. More... baffled? A little amused, even?

[Voice]

[machines_talk]

Chinese. The other language I talk in. Most folk in my 'Verse know it. Didn't never really think much on how folk here might not.

That's really all kinds of neat, bein' able to just...learn languages like that.

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[poppingseeds]

You think you could teach me it at some point? If I ever ran into the others of my pantheon, I would love to see their reaction to that.

[flipping_bird]

I'm not hearing Greek at any rate.

[poppingseeds]

[laughing]

Aien aristeuein.

[flipping_bird]

Now I am.

[poppingseeds]

Then I've been speaking English, or whatever the language is here, all along. That settles it!