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

text post; un: peerless_cucumber

[xiaoxiuya]

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...]

@junpei | text

[coolerjunpei]

i got all of them. why, is there gonna be a quiz?

text; un: thefool

[mollymocks]

is it meant to all sound the same? except the second one

[ Text to speech can be a little weird sometimes. ]

text | @stray

[kampfgeist]

first one reads english to me
second one no idea
third is german
fourth is shitty german

text (silent princess)

[luminously]

I cannot help but wondering before I answer myself... Is there a reason in particular that you are asking?

text. @kaveh

[fussiest]

I've three out of the four, but the second one resembles a little like Inazuman. I just don't speak it.
Ah, but I know someone who does. Give me a moment.

@Alhaitham

[justscribing]

[Maybe two minutes after Kaveh has made sure that Alhaitham has seen this.]

1, 3, 4 are all perfectly readable to me, but not in the original language you described.

The second one is the same as the third but using an alternate alphabet, isn't it? It resembles Inazuman phonetically, but the writing system is different.

Un: poison_wing | text

[wingclip]

The first I recognize as English, and the other two are in Japanese, albeit written differently.

Higashinese... is that derived from an era I’m unfamiliar with yet? In Japan?

[There are just… so many people in this city, who knows them all?]

[petsthedog]

i can read all of em fine but what the hell's higashinese supposed to be

[is this alternate universe bullshit again]

( text ) un: 46

[cranekin]

The first one is familiar but I can't read it well.

("written" and "Victorian?" They're a little more complex than the basic terms he's picked up from reports and the few more modern texts he's seen. He can guess the meanings from the other sentences. And a quick glance at some of the other messages so far reveals--)

Ah, I see. English. I don't know it.
I can read the rest well enough.
Is Higashinese from the east, by chance?

[codenametesla]

This... is so cool. Weird, and I don't know what exactly it means for the city and us, but so, so cool. This implies translation technology miles ahead of anything even dreamed of! All of the speed of a VI but the accuracy and exactness of a person! It's like... telepathy? But through technology as well as in person?

[Sorry, she's no actual help here, especially since she knows everyone else has given their 2 cents on the languages themselves, but she is absolutely going to let herself nerd out a bit until she can have an existential breakdown in private about how the hell this is happening. Thanks Midnight <3]