She glanced around the room from her spot on the squishy chair and watched as the others slowly filed in. The ones she liked got waves and smiles and everyone else she just stared at as they entered. Staring was fun. It helped pass the ti--
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Wasn't that--It
WAS!!! Mr. Vinteren!!! He was gonna be in the seminar tooooooo!!!
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Now she couldn't stop grinning. The man was good people, very good people. She and Scary-Bat Girl were putting up posters for him to win in the elections!!! She beamed over at the man and gave him a waaaave. Erik Vinteren in the seminar!!!! Eeeep!
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Originally Posted by
Silver Ninja 
"I believe everyone should learn at least one language besides their primary, it opens up the world for each of you. And for you to be students in this school I think it would be very beneficial for each of you to be able to speak and converse with some of the creatures on the grounds or in this case, in the lake." Looking over the students and even glancing towards Erik and the professor, he asked "How many of you already speak another language or two or even more already, and which language or languages do you speak?"
Oh and the seminar was starting. It didn't surprize her very much that they were starting with a question. Grown ups liked doing that; asking questions. She could never figure out why though and usually the questions were just so far-fetched and left her thinking 'how in merlin's beard am
I supposed to know that?' but then...there might have been reasons for her not knowing. Reasons connected to her dislike for reading. Meh. Nothing she couldn't get over with time and chocolate frogs.
Speaking of chocolate frogs, that just happened to be the only other language she spoke...well there was another but for this purpose it wasn't all that important...was it?
Not as important as the chocolate frog one proved to be. See, she understood them on a level that no one else did. Yup. True story. They had a thing, yeah, a kind of understanding...but maybe the world wasn't ready to know that. She'd keep it to herself and wait for the next question--there was
always a next question.
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Silver Ninja Sitting down on the beanbag chair so he was more at their level now. "A language can have many different aspects to it, depending on where it's being spoken. Accents can change, words can be said differently. Location, atmosphere, the people, are all different ways that a language can change within itself."
"Let's move to Mermish, what do you think are some reasons or ways that the Mermish language might differ in different parts of the world?"
And just as she thought, there was another question. Mhm. She saw it coming.
She sorta knew the answer to this; only some of it though.
"They differ because they sound different. Like most of them just sound like they're screeching if you ask me but that's probably just because I never took the time out to really listen. I'm guessing the screeching sounds different but then...do they really screech? I think there might be a few words here and there in what they say. Mostly it just sounds like mumbles and jumbles of noise to me. I didn't know they were different..."...She was beginning to think that she was getting her creatures mixed up. This is why she left this stuff to Melanie. She was her sign from under the water.
Yup. It was true. So far the girl hadn't gotten her any messages from the Giant Squid but that was pretty whatever because she'd meet him before she graduated, even if she had to dive to the bottom of the lake.
