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[connivingbird]

[Ankh has found the translation software part of the system, which was amusing for the first two seconds until he tries using it. The results had him a little more than annoyed so he is seeing if it's just him or if the program is really as busted as he thinks it is.]


POSTED: April 22, 2016
FROM: Fortuna


Is this thing working?

يعمل هذا الشيء؟

איז דעם זאַך ארבעטן?

이 점은 작동합니까?

E 'questa cosa funziona?

Funguje tahle věc?

Tha seo rud a tha ag obair?

Ni jambo hili kwa kufanya kazi?






[OOC; I'm just using google translation here and it's all the same thing being repeated over and over again with the first one in Japanese. As the result of having Omiligualism he knows that there is a different language being presented but he doesn't see a difference at all. Languages are Arabic, Yiddish, Korean, Italian, Czech, Scot Gaelic, and Swahili.]

Comments

[clothes_make_the_man]

...Ankh? Is everything all right?

[connivingbird]

I'm fine
can't you read any of that?

[clothes_make_the_man]

No. What does it say?

[connivingbird]

if this thing working
according to what I've found the translation program is suppose to be working fine but I can't tell

[razzledazzles]

It seems to be working just fine. I've never seen so many languages in one place.

[connivingbird]

it seems that the translator can handle most languages
but it does look different to you?

[razzledazzles]

Each of them do. I know the first is Japanese, but the fourth is rather familiar, as well...

Do they not look different to you?

[toremainbehind]

Well, I'd say it's working well enough unless the other languages were also posted by mistake.

[connivingbird]

No they weren't, I was testing to see if it looks different to other people

[toremainbehind]

It looks fine to me.

I'm afraid some of the languages are lost to me, but is it safe to assume they all mean the same?

go go google translate powers

[subtract]

[...and then Add learned that he's fluent in Korean. Huh.]

방법은 매우 유익한. [How very informative.]

more google powers

[connivingbird]

이 몇 가지 로직이 있어야한다. [There has to be some logic to this.]

[subtract]

그들은 모두 당신에게 동일하게 나타 납니까? [They all appear the same to you?] What an unusual skill to learn without realizing. Is there a limited range of languages you're able to understand in this way?

You should try reading some dead or long forgotten languages. The results could be interesting.

[revolutionfalcon]

It's working. I'm going to guess you actually had a reason for asking that question, because from here it looks pretty damn obvious.

[connivingbird]

No matter what language I switch the translation tool to, I can read it
If it looks like different languages to you, then that's what it's suppose to look like, not the same like it does for me

[revolutionfalcon]

What, is that your god power? Sounds useful, but inconvenient as hell if you can't actually tell when there's a different language written.

What language are you reading it all as? [He's assuming there has to be some kind of output language that he's seeing this all in, if it's all the same to him, and given what he knows of this guy he's not making any assumptions on that.]

[hyuuga]

SO many different languages... So, if that was your intent, then I'd say yes. It is working.

[connivingbird]

Good.
At least it is working for someone

[hyuuga]

Can you not see them all?

Or do they just not look like they're supposed to for you?

[jocularly]

I'm pretty it tis! Some of that I can't read, though.

[connivingbird]

So it does look like a few different languages. That's good

Missing words is my specialty. /sob

[jocularly]

Did ye mean to do that?

[faintsforjustice]

[Okay give him a bit. It takes some effort to find the right languages and the appropriate responses but once he does, he responds.]

Yes, it's working.

[The message repeats eight times, once in each of the languages given.]

[connivingbird]

And yet you're not having that much trouble responding to it.

[He's going to use the last language on the list just to see what Philip will do next.]

[faintsforjustice]

[Respond in kind, though there might be a conspicuous pause as he has to look things up, and then...]

More difficult me than you.

[...He suspects he left something out of that sentence. Trying to construct sentences in a language he doesn't speak is a lot harder than looking up translations. He's just going to switch back to Japanese now.]

I've never tried to speak Swahili before, but looking up translations is easy enough. Is there really no difference between them for you?

[Yes, he's been reading through some of the other responses.]