03-13-2025, 07:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-13-2025, 07:28 PM by Hallowette Maxas-Darl.)
" Thank you, and no, you don't have to turn it back on. I like the reason why you turn it off sometimes, so you can hear the subtle differences and nuances of someone's true accent and voice".
The younger woman smiled broadly as Aeryn stated that she understood one of her sometimes eccentric behaviors. To her surprise not everyone was ok with it, and she had learned to disclose the habit when one on one with someone. She didn't want someone to feel compromised in any way, especially when intimacy wasn't intended.
Hally placed the spooned pudding in her mouth and an explosion of the exotic familiar flavor wrapped itself around her taste buds.
"Ooh, that is good." she purred quietly before getting another bite to replenish the sensation.
"Oh, I've got another phrase for you, gie it laldy which means give it your all". her new friend offered as she took another sip of the floral liquid.
Hally listened to Aeryn's unencumbered words, noting the lyrical quality that reminded her in some ways of the traditional Bajoran poetry her father was so fond of. Gie as give - that seemed to maybe be related to a simple difference in dialect?
"It" remained unchanged as "it" was in standard terran english, but "laldy" as "all" - while similar, it was different enough that either the root english word was of a common root word, or perhaps had been influenced by (a more...musical?) language from earlier on, likely the very one that influenced her distinct accent to begin with.
"I really like that one too." she said with a smile. "It's always intrigued me how many dialects can come from an area, even relatively small ones. The same language in so many ways, but they can be so different also." She took a sip of the tart iced drink, swallowed and continued, "It's even more interesting how many space faring species reverted to a single planetary language once they took to the stars. I suppose..." she said thoughtfully, "that the challenges of interstellar flight and taking part in a universal community demands a more singular way to communicate among its members." She grinned as she realized she had let her own nerdiness emerge, "Uhm, and at the risk of REALLY demonstrating what a language nerd I am, I guess that is why I like to turn off the UT. Language is as much community as anything. And while the UT does work to permit different people to share in a greater community, it's just nice to see how someone's language...their culture, contributed to where they are today."
"The Pagh cries out with that which champions it." she said softly, before adding, "as my father's people say."
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The younger woman smiled broadly as Aeryn stated that she understood one of her sometimes eccentric behaviors. To her surprise not everyone was ok with it, and she had learned to disclose the habit when one on one with someone. She didn't want someone to feel compromised in any way, especially when intimacy wasn't intended.
Hally placed the spooned pudding in her mouth and an explosion of the exotic familiar flavor wrapped itself around her taste buds.
"Ooh, that is good." she purred quietly before getting another bite to replenish the sensation.
"Oh, I've got another phrase for you, gie it laldy which means give it your all". her new friend offered as she took another sip of the floral liquid.
Hally listened to Aeryn's unencumbered words, noting the lyrical quality that reminded her in some ways of the traditional Bajoran poetry her father was so fond of. Gie as give - that seemed to maybe be related to a simple difference in dialect?
"It" remained unchanged as "it" was in standard terran english, but "laldy" as "all" - while similar, it was different enough that either the root english word was of a common root word, or perhaps had been influenced by (a more...musical?) language from earlier on, likely the very one that influenced her distinct accent to begin with.
"I really like that one too." she said with a smile. "It's always intrigued me how many dialects can come from an area, even relatively small ones. The same language in so many ways, but they can be so different also." She took a sip of the tart iced drink, swallowed and continued, "It's even more interesting how many space faring species reverted to a single planetary language once they took to the stars. I suppose..." she said thoughtfully, "that the challenges of interstellar flight and taking part in a universal community demands a more singular way to communicate among its members." She grinned as she realized she had let her own nerdiness emerge, "Uhm, and at the risk of REALLY demonstrating what a language nerd I am, I guess that is why I like to turn off the UT. Language is as much community as anything. And while the UT does work to permit different people to share in a greater community, it's just nice to see how someone's language...their culture, contributed to where they are today."
"The Pagh cries out with that which champions it." she said softly, before adding, "as my father's people say."
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