♐ fifty-seventh shot

[yeahihidmypants]

[ Dictated in (American) English ]

It's not surprising how multiversal and multi-linguistic this place is. I'm not sure if it's a good thing that the castle just... fixes this for us or not. I sort of wonder just how much we all would've learned about each other if we had to learn to communicate with each other first.

It also makes me wonder just how accurate the standard language was... I mean, phrases can't be as universal as we imagine them to be. There had to have been some serious misunderstandings that we were never even aware of.



[ He writes down the following phrase in three languages: Russian, Egyptian Arabic, Spanish, and French. ]

If anyone is still looking for translation services, I'd be glad to help. My name is Oliver Queen.

Comments

[coy]

Really? Fluent?

[yeahihidmypants]

Claro que si. [Sure.]

Back home I actually run a pretty successful corporation and we have a lot of subcontractors that are based in Mexico and a few others in Spain. It comes in handy.

[coy]

Really? What other languages do you know? I mean I saw the writing but I didn't recognize the other ones besides French.

[yeahihidmypants]

Well, the first is Russian, then Egyptian Arabic, and Spanish and French - which you recognized.

I have a passable understanding of German, but it's mostly because of dealings with Russians that also deal with Germans.

[coy]

And you know all of that because of... business?

[yeahihidmypants]

Mostly, yeah.

Why...? Does it sound not-business related?

[coy]

No. I was just saying... That's kind of cool.

[yeahihidmypants]

Well, I wish I knew a few more - considering this castle just went Tower of Babel on us.

[coy]

Still, it beats me.

[yeahihidmypants]

Are you thinking of taking up any of these languages, now?

[coy]

Yeah, like ten. French and cleaning up my Spanish.

[yeahihidmypants]

Well, that's two. So you might want to work on your numbers too. [He's teasing, completely.]

[coy]

Hey. [She laughs] You know what I mean.

[yeahihidmypants]

This is true, my vague statement translation skills are just fine.

[coy]

It wasn't that vague.

[yeahihidmypants]

Okay... slightly inaccurate.

[coy]

Yeah exactly.

[yeahihidmypants]

Well, either way, if you want help with any of this learning - you can always ask me.

[coy]

Thanks, Oliver.

[yeahihidmypants]

Anytime, Caroline.