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[recollecters]

You know, I think some April Fool's pranks are okay! Like the silly ones they do on websites or the really good natured kind. But I am LESS okay with someone changing the ENTIRE layout of our entire building and giving us treasure maps to go around it which for the record my brother-in-law did and it's a pain!! There's some weird effects coming in from outside this planet at the moment, although they'll mostly miss the city itself. There'll be a localized temporal storm, but it shouldn't be more than a mild irritation. It looks like it's just going to yank some things around and send them on through. I think Maurice is going to call out sick that day, or if I were him I definitely would. Hey, I kind of want a four-leaf clover. I know that's more last month than this month, but still. If you find one, pass it along. Also, I want to do a cutesy April Fools thing, so don't get too mad! Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated For the remainder of the day all users will have their userpic replaced with a picture of them dressed as their favorite animal. It's pretty harmless as far as pranks go, and it will change back either at midnight or after trying to change the picture twice, prompting an "Are you sure?" message but no further ill effects. Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain one of this month's freebies! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 5 or more consecutive comments from you with someone new. We define someone new as someone new to the game, or simply someone your character has never tagged before. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

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[compendiem]

Can't over text, but I'd be able to tell if we spoke in person. I used to travel all around Japan.

[cardcaptured]

Should I send you a voice message, then? You just need to hear me speak, right?

But it's the same for Chinese, too. Cantonese is already a dialect of it's own, but I know there's hundreds of others out there depending on the region of China you're in.

[compendiem]

Yeah, that works. China is huge, too... I can't imagine the nuances between city to city.

1/2

[cardcaptured]

It gets really confusing. It's a little annoying when people just assume Chinese is the same across the board. Even the cultures can be vastly different depending on where you are.

But give me a moment. I don't really think I've used the voice feature on this yet.

[cardcaptured]

[About five minutes later, there a voice response, spoken in somewhat broken Japanese.]

This is the Japanese that I know. I have not had a lot of practice with it, so it is not very good.

[And he switches back over to his more comfortable English--]

Is that enough to tell? Or should I say more?

[compendiem]

[ Minato speaks back in Japanese, because Xiaolang had asked for practice. His Japanese is a lot more fluent than his English, so he's glad to be able to speak it instead. ]

Yeah, you're right, it sounds like pretty standard Japanese. Tokyo-ben, maybe? You'll get better with practice.

[cardcaptured]

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