[written]

[thethundersaid]

[public]

Who among you is good with languages?

[private -- to Rikka]

You had a number of people possessed, didn't you? How has their recovery been?

Comments

[Written]

[formerabyssinian]

Doesn't that depend on the language you need?

[Written]

[thethundersaid]

I don't know the language at all.

[Written]

[formerabyssinian]

Well, at Isla Empieza, they seem to speak English, or an old form of it. I don't know about most other islands. I speak Japanese and English.

[Written]

[thethundersaid]

I hear them speak in the language I'm used to, which isn't either of those. There's some kind of translation mechanism going on.

[Written]

[formerabyssinian]

How do you even know they're speaking in a different language if you're hearing one you understand?

[Written]

[thethundersaid]

If they're speaking the languages you named, then they're speaking a different language.

Unless there are different names for the same language across worlds.

[Written]

[formerabyssinian]

There probably is a different name for the languages we know.

Do you need something translated, or are you just curious?

[Written]

[thethundersaid]

It still doesn't make sense that we can all understand each other this completely, even if some of us speak whatever language is native to this place.

I need something translated.

[Written]

[formerabyssinian]

It also doesn't make sense about why we can come here but we can't get back.

What are you translating?

[Written]

[thethundersaid]

That might be the case, but I'm not just going to accept that we can't do anything of use here.

It looks like a letter.

[Written]

[formerabyssinian]

What makes you think it's a letter, specifically?

[Written]

[thethundersaid]

I already told you: it looks like one. Obviously I don't know with certainty.