text; @The Seventh Crown of the Seventh Demon King;

[unrequite]

[ Four lines of text. ]

This is written in Victorian.
Kore wa Laterano-ji Higashi-go de kakareteimasu.
This is written in Higashinese.
This written by in Yanese. (Might be bad. Sorry.)

Please do let me know how many of these sentences you understand.

[ The first is in what would be considered Earth English, the second is what would be known as Japanese written in Romaji, but he's called it "Laterano-ji Higashinese". The third was written in Japanese, the fourth was written in some rather poor Chinese. He's called the languages themselves clearly incorrect names. What's more important, though, is that only the second one should parse as phonetic, and should only be understandable to fellow Japanese speakers. The rest are in whatever language is most understandable to whoever reads it. Funny, huh? This city sure is strange! ]

Comments

[unrequite]

I wouldn't doubt yourself, love. That was a very lucid response to whatever I was talking about.

[ It was! Midnight's very pleased by this. ]

I'm sure beasts have languages among themselves, don't they? Do wish we had a hound or a cat of some sort to test these things. A cloudbeast would do. Haven't seen as much as a herdbeast or fowlbeast since I've been here, though.

[mollymocks]

oh im excellent at lucid. tell me anything you like and i can nod with the best of them.

sure. speak with animals has to work on something yeah?

[unrequite]

"Speak with animals"... That means more to you than it does to me. Is that an ability of some sort where you're from, or am I misreading?

[mollymocks]

its a spell. fairly obvious what it does i think

[unrequite]

Oh, completely. I'm sure many would argue that it makes communication with men like me possible.

[ 🤡 ]

[mollymocks]

now now darling, if you want to get into that sort of play it requires at least a conversation first

[unrequite]

I see. Would you happen to have "Speak with Animals" in your arsenal, or will I need to start this interaction with something as civilized as introductions first?

[ Because while thefool tells Midnight much about this person's character, it doesn't tell him much about their name. ]

[mollymocks]

alas no im not really much for magic
most magic
but an introduction wouldnt go astray

[unrequite]

Call me Midnight. And yourself?

[mollymocks]

oh my dream man himself. i should have guessed

[unrequite]

[ It takes him a second to put the word to a face to a name, but fortunately, Midnight's pretty good at that sort of thing. ]

Mr. Tealeaf. Well, how lovely to hear from you again. How are you, love?

[mollymocks]

cant complain
aside from the obvious
what brought about the language business?

[unrequite]

I know several languages. I was wondering how many people could understand me. That's all. There's a certain joy to being understood... Although there's some fun in being misunderstood as well.

[mollymocks]

oh quite. youve no idea what sort of reactions speaking the language of the hells can get you.

[unrequite]

"Language of the hells"? How literal is that, then?

[mollymocks]

well it is called infernal
so extremely