[written?!] private to other Bloody Roses. Cuz he's not advertising his illiteracy to the world ;>>

[crankyshark]

 OK I need riting practis. So rit me stuf and ill rit bak. Tell me if I scru up so I can du bettr.

....and if u mak fun of me u wil get it. I NO WER U SLEP

[needless to say his writing is rather sloppy. Good luck interpreting this foreign symbology]

Comments

[written]

[myfayevalentine]

*Faye is busy somewhere else on the ship awwwing at this before replying. Her handwriting is pretty okay, and plenty readable, but not overly pretty or anything*

So what's the writing practise for? Why didn't that old lady ever teach you?

[crankyshark]

I only livd with hur for 2 yers. She tot me whut I no. Othrwiz Id no nuthing ubowt riting.[the last word is crossed out as he noticed how she spelled it] writing.

But wait there's more!

[crankyshark]

....wy is ther a w in writing. Thers no w sownd

[myfayevalentine]

Because this is a stupid language is why. There are lots of weird spellings and rules.

So so you have any words you'd really like to spell?

[private]

[crankyshark]

Ummmm... [he switches their conversation to private]

Dus the word luv have wun of thos hidden 'e's?

[private]

[myfayevalentine]

*That's sweet, and it makes Faye hold her journal a little closer to herself*

Yes, it does. So it looks like this: love.

Are you writing secret love letters to some new girlfriend you've found?

[crankyshark]

[he chuckled a bit, though his writing didn't show it of course]

No but maybe I'm thinking of writing love letters to the one I already hav.

[myfayevalentine]

Oh really? It looks like you're getting the hang of it just fine. Any other words you want some help with?

[crankyshark]

Hm [there were lots, really. But he hadn't made a list of them nor did he want to take up a ton of Faye's time]

Is there somewher I can luk for lists of words and theyr spelling?

[myfayevalentine]

Back home you could look it up on a computer. But here I suppose you'll need a dictionary.

[crankyshark]

...a what? Do we have one?

[myfayevalentine]

Probably not. You'll need to buy one.

[crankyshark]

Oh, ok. I'll look for one at the necst book stor I se

[myfayevalentine]

So why the sudden desire to write?

[crankyshark]

...I gess I'm just kinda tird of feeling dumb when I gotta reed something. Or I want to write but don't becuz I know I'm bad at it and don't want peepl to see

[myfayevalentine]

Reading will help your writing too. Maybe you should take a trip to go get some new books.

[crankyshark]

[he hated reading, but she had a point]

Yea. Mayb I should read more jurnul entrees to

[myfayevalentine]

Yes. That's a good idea - just in case you miss stuff.

[Written]

[glyph_witch]

[Well, at least he knows that Shanoa won't laugh at him. Her handwriting is quite neat looking, as she is going to avoid writing in cursive.]

You've made a few mistakes in this entry.

[And she goes ahead and rewrites it for him so that he can learn.]

"Okay, I need writing practice. So write me stuff, and I'll write back. Tell me if I screw(?) [She's not sure how the word "screw" fits into this kind of context.] up so I can do better.

"And if you make fun of me, you will get it. I know where you sleep."

Does that help?

[crankyshark]

Yes! It helps a lot, thank yu...[crosses that out] you.

Thers a lot of hiden e's wher..e thers no 'e' sound...

[glyph_witch]

The "e" helps with making longer vowel sounds.

"thers" should be "there's"

[crankyshark]

O, okay. How do you spel your naym?

[glyph_witch]

[First putting in the corrections before giving her answer.]

"Oh, okay. How do you spell your name?"

It's spelled like this. Shanoa

[crankyshark]

[each time he writes, he looks back over what's been written already to reference corrected spelling]

Got it. You know any gud sentenses to write for practicing spelling?

[glyph_witch]

"Gud" should be "good" and "sentenses" should be "sentences"

I really can't think of any at the moment. I think more people practice spelling by looking up words and writing them over and over again.

[crankyshark]

Looking them up? Hau can I look them up?

[glyph_witch]

"Hau" should be "How."

You can use a dictionary. You maybe able to pick one up the next time we stop in a port town.

[crankyshark]

Oh, okay. That does sownd helpful

[glyph_witch]

"Sownd" should be "sound."

Hopefully it will work out for you. I can help if you need any more assistance.

[She at least remembers basic grammar. That didn't go away when she lost her memory.]

[crankyshark]

reelee? Thanks !

[a dictionary will help a lot with spelling and comprehension, but he may come to her for grammar later on]

[written] 1/2

[redcinemareel]

Who is this?

[Because she doesn't recognize the writing at all. Nor can she read it.]

[written]

[redcinemareel]

[Then she looks to the entry and sees that it's Thash. What is he doing?]

Are you ill?

[She's never seen his writing ever...]

[crankyshark]

No! I'm practicing writing! [apparently he's already getting a little better because that's readable...barely]

[redcinemareel]

Then what about all that gibberish earlier?

[That was much better than before!]

[crankyshark]

Well the end of it went somthing lik this: don't make fun of me, I know where you sleep

[>> he's not appreciating her tone right now]

And tell me if I screw up so I can get better.

[redcinemareel]

I know where YOU sleep, as well, you know.

[That threat does nothing to her.]

Tell you about your mistakes? I'd be glad to.

[You can't take back that invitation, Thash!]

[crankyshark]

I meen in my writing obveeuslee

[redcinemareel]

"I mean in my writing obviously"

Something like this? [She makes an arrow pointing to the corrected sentence.]

[crankyshark]

[how about that, she's being helpful]

Yes, like that. Thank you.

I didnt stay in skool very long so I suc at this.

[redcinemareel]

[She was just following what Shanoa is doing. Otherwise he'd never hear the end of it.]

You'll have to learn about other punctuations, but perhaps writing should be the first task to overcome.

Skool = School

suc = suck

[crankyshark]

[he was almost irritated at the number of things in writing that didn't make much sense. Why a 'ch' where there was a 'k' sound? And why were both 'c' and 'k' needed at the end of suck? This was going to be harder than he thought]

Somtims this layngwig dusnt make much sens.

[redcinemareel]

[Although Grell thinks his learning process will take some time, she has to admit he's learning fairly fast.]

"Sometimes this language doesn't make much sense".

Spoken language is easier to comprehend than written. It isn't unusual for the illiteracy rate to be rather high in my time.

[crankyshark]

O, i see. Yea speaking is eesier. In my wurld most humans and prety much al Acweriens can read and write.

[redcinemareel]

Eesier= easier

wurld=world

prety=pretty

Acweriens= Aquarians [This word threw her for a loop but sounding it out herself helped.]

Reading has its benefits. It would have been best to start earlier.

[crankyshark]

Yeah, I know. I trid as a kid. Unfortunetly I had ishus with the other kids...

[which may or may not have involved biting them]

So I culdnt stay in school.

[redcinemareel]

Just keep trying. You may get frustrated by all the rules, but they'll become second nature after a while. And be sure to keep notes.

trid=tried

ishus=issues

culdnt=couldn't

[crankyshark]

[well, that seemed like a nice encouraging thing to say]

Thank you, Captin

[redcinemareel]

[And we already see how long THAT lasts...]

Captin=Captain