Over-Savory Victory

[matchbreaker]

[ Our post begins with a video. A video that shows Elda Marker, in all of her 5', tight-muscled but thin glory wearing a... gaudy belt. A championship belt? The text on it marks it as being a championship belt for Recollé Ninja Warrior. Was that one of the official prizes, or did she commission this from somewhere herself...? Who even knows man, but she takes it off, bringing it up to the camera and then says something to the effect of, ]

< Thank you, thank you! I just wanted to show this off a little! >

[ ... In French. Why French? Who knows. But after that she picks up whatever she's using for the camera and re-focuses it on the complete Gamer Set she got from that prize (for the purposes of playing the one year Last Fantasy sub she got. ]

I wish I knew more about what to do with this stuff though.

[ That part is back to English, and then the video ends. Below there, she then shifts to text to go along with that. ]

So I was studying Japanese this morning and all of a sudden, I fluently understand everything I'm looking at? And then start speaking, and I know what all to say. Probably curtesy of Retrospec, but that's one of the most convenient changes I've gotten yet! I can't show it off though, because I don't actually know how to type it. That's a weird gap for them to give me, isn't it?

Anyone willing to tutor me on that? Does it need a special keyboard? Promise I'm not trying to be insulting. I may be bragging a littlethough (mostly about the Ninja Warrior win from last month though, I think I can be permitted riding high on it). At least I'm not asking you about fruit costumes!

Comments

[thesettingsun]

Thank God for no fruit costumes.

I picked up fluency in two Japanese dialects thanks to Retrospec, so I can help you with that one. Do you know which dialect you were speaking? Probably Toyko-ben.

[matchbreaker]

No idea! I don't know where that woman lived How would I test for that?

[thesettingsun]

Well, the easiest way would be for me to type something and you to tell me if it makes sense.

[So first he types in Tokyo dialect, which is standard dialect and probably what past-Elda spoke unless I'm mistaken:]

Congratulations on your tournament victory.

[Then he repeats the same thing in Tsugaru dialect, which is... quite possibly not understandable at all, despite technically also being Japanese.]

Congratulations on your tournament victory.

[sotenbori]

It's pretty dope, right? Both the Japanese and Last Fantasy.

A few of us play, actually.

[ yup ]

[matchbreaker]

I barely even know what the Last Fantasy thing is other than that game Elizabeth roleplays in. But I won a year of it and a copy, so I should work it out, right?

[feistytrader]

I can't believe you just learned a language. That's cheating.

[Okay look that's actually sort of cool and so was winning ninja warrior, but this is totally unfair, how is he going to snipe comments at Toushiro now.]

[matchbreaker]

*Two* actually.

< You can't speak French, can you? >

[ The second sentence being... well, in French. ]

[constellates]

yes ! more people are learning languages !
exciting !!

a month after anya got retrospec i knew russian ? reading and writing
but my english is not very good anymore
but i know reading and writing japanese too but also not as good as russian
i do not really understand
but it is happening to more and more people ?

[matchbreaker]

I don't think I've lost any proficiency with English? I've yet to flex my Japanese or French muscles, though, so I'm not sure which ones I'm best at . . .

Might have to do with the person in your memories? Like mine would be trilingual and yours would be too but not as proficient in other languages?

It does seem rude to lose some of your English ability.

[scythegun]

I can't help you with Japanese, but if you ever get German back let me know!

Congratulations on your victory, by the way!

[matchbreaker]

I'll be sure to! But more importantly, does that mean you put money on me?

[manufactured]

Good to see that you're enjoying yourself, Elda.

[matchbreaker]

Well I have to make my own fun somehow or another.

[ladytakamaki]

Congrats, Elda, on the new language and the Ninja Warrior win! Does this mean we can talk in Japanese now?

[matchbreaker]

Like I said I'm still working out how to type it! But spoken, for sure.

Thank you, thank you. This belt's too heavy to wear though

[toobigtohandle]

Do you also understand spoken Japanese too?

If you use a keyboard that has a setting for Asian languages, you can normally just type phonetically and it will propose choices for words.

[matchbreaker]

I can yes. That makes sense for my phone and I've been experimenting with that since Majima pointed that out, but I'm less sure for my laptop.

[yakan]

over ten years in america and I still cant tell what that first bit you said means! whats that about mercy?

[ He gets it wasn't really English, sssh ]

but wow that's really convenient and great! i can help if you like but you really just type as it sounds and the different kanji thatsounds like that shows up

also! congratulations!!

[matchbreaker]

Oh I'd been wondering since I fiddled with it at Majime's suggestion (where you picked kanji, I mean) thank you.

I must sound silly, but I did only learn to speak it today.

Thank you!

[destiny_key]

you dont need a special keyboard i dont think
i usually just use a regular one

but theres a setting on the computer you have to change
you have to change it whenever you switch between typing japanese and english
its kind of a pain???
but i dont really type in japanese that often so i dont mind
also once you set it up once you can put it on the tool bar so its convenient to click

[And then, in (honestly kind of poor) Japanese;]

thats really cool though!!!
i hope you enjoy speaking japanese!!!
lol

[matchbreaker]

Oh thank you, I'll have to keep at it! It just seemed like such a strange thing to not include. I've tested it now, I can definitely write well enough and I even recognize a great amount of kanji offhand. It's neat.

[ Okay... well, she knows how to do it on her phone at least now so, ]

< I will! I hope that my son will appreciate it as well. >

[ and then in French: ]

<< And French, too. That's a little fun as a bonus >>

[lostapprentice]

[Winning a contest of strength and agility? Definitely gets Elda a lot of cool points in Ren's book. And some scary points, which just add back into the other.]

you're having a nice week. now i wish i had gone so i could have seen it.

[matchbreaker]

There really were a lot of amazing competitors. The woman I was up against directly only finished a second or so behind me.

[livingdeadgirl]

see now theres a useful thing to remember!
that would make japanese class 1000x easier lol

[matchbreaker]

Honestly, I feel bad to cheat my way into it like this. I'd been trying to study too.