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demon king of the east, midnight ([personal profile] unrequite) wrote in [community profile] citynet2023-08-11 02:51 pm

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

[ 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! ]
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[personal profile] xiaoxiuya 2023-08-11 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good thinking! It'll be interesting to see how everyone reacts to this! Although...just for the record, it's "This is written in Yanese." [Shen Yuan corrects the syntax of the Chinese sentence, and makes a couple adjustments to the radicals while he's at it. He won't judge..."Crown?" Is that what he should call them? for the error, but the pedant in him can't let it slide unremarked.]

I understand the first, third, and fourth sentence, although I expect my pronounciation would be off if I tried to read the third out loud! [After all, kanji is simply another branch of Traditional Hanzi, but the phonetics of Japanese...well, they're pretty different!] The words we used for those languages in my world are different, however. Does 'English,' 'Japanese,' and 'Chinese' not ring a bell?

[Don't mind him, just going to fixate on the lore here while they wait for more experimental data to come in...]
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[personal profile] xiaoxiuya 2023-08-11 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's so cool! So our worlds are similar enough to share languages, but the place names are different...I wonder what other similarities they share? Somehow that's even more fascinating than a world that's completely different from your own, don't you think?

Looking back over your post, "Yan" is similar to "Han," which is the largest ethnic group living in my world's country of China. I'm Han myself. And you wrote "Higashi" with the character for "east"...Japan is an island nation that indeed lies to the east of China. Even "Victorian" is familiar...one of the most famous queens in the English-speaking part of the world was named Victoria, although the language and country predate her by several hundreds of years.

I wonder if we're looking at an actual case of parallel histories here? Perhaps our worlds used to be the same, but diverged at some point in the distant past?
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[personal profile] coolerjunpei 2023-08-11 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
i got all of them. why, is there gonna be a quiz?
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[personal profile] xiaoxiuya 2023-08-12 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
No need to apologize, I feel exactly the same way! This is fascinating...But good heavens, your history really only goes back a single millennium? That's so sad! China alone has a recorded history going back thirty-six hundred years, and we're only one of the most ancient nations on our Earth! I can't remember the dates off the top of my head, but Sumer and Egypt at least are probably older...

But that's not as important as these Nightzmoran. I don't recognize that word at all, and there certainly was never an invasion in my world that wiped out all recorded history! What were they like? Were they a human civilization, or something else?


[Aliens? Demons?? There are several possibilities, and he's on the edge of his seat to find out!]
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[personal profile] mollymocks 2023-08-12 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
is it meant to all sound the same? except the second one

[ Text to speech can be a little weird sometimes. ]
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[personal profile] coolerjunpei 2023-08-12 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
you bet your ass i want a gold star sticker.

[He'll put it on his phone! Get him a sticker!]

it works out loud too though, right? so exactly what "technology" do you think it is? like are we talking chips in our heads or full-on simulation?
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[personal profile] mollymocks 2023-08-12 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
oh. i know theres magic that can do that but maybe not on this scale. not an expert by any means
i wonder...

i am speaking in infernal
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[personal profile] mollymocks 2023-08-12 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
well thats good to know

[ So much for trying to scare people with the creepy demon language. Alas. ]

so everything translates then. this thing is supposed to write what i tell it
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[personal profile] mollymocks 2023-08-12 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
i dont know what any of that means but it sounds very impressive

[ Molly is Helping. ]

do wonder how far it goes. if there were animals here would it translate them too
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[personal profile] coolerjunpei 2023-08-12 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
nice. can't wait.

i mean, manipulating people's perception isn't impossible in general... but the area of effect is pretty huge. we're all perceiving individually but at the same time, so.... chips.
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[personal profile] kampfgeist 2023-08-12 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
first one reads english to me
second one no idea
third is german
fourth is shitty german
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[personal profile] luminously 2023-08-13 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
I cannot help but wondering before I answer myself... Is there a reason in particular that you are asking?
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[personal profile] coolerjunpei 2023-08-13 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
we're still talking about the translation thing, right? why would you want to turn that off?

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