[video] I assume that google translate approximates the shittiness of Danny's Esperanto skills

[gogoghostpowers]

[Remember this kid, from a while back? Yeah, Danny Phantom seems to have disappeared once he got cured and stopped being an acidic puddle, but in the meantime, this guy must have taken his place! How strange.]

Ĉu neniu alia scias esperanto? Mi ĵus rememoris paroli gxin!

Uh...heh, if you didn't get that, it was in Esperanto. I'm not totally fluent in it yet or anything, but I was learning it back home!

...Which is actually kinda weird now that I think about it, because I also remember failing every Spanish test I ever took in school...

((OOC: 0.3% on Wulf speaking Esperanto and starting to learn some from Tucker and also resources on the Internet. 30% total regain.))

Comments

[trustycrowbar]

Esperanto? Huh, that's one you don't hear about every day. So who do you know that speaks it?

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh, just uh--just a friend of mine. He...doesn't know any language aside from Esperanto, which is why I started learning it.

[trustycrowbar]

That's what I figured. [With consistent failing grades in spanish, it would have to be a friend to make the kid learn something like esperanto.]

That the only other language you speak?

[gogoghostpowers]

I think so. If there's anything else, I don't remember it, and I don't think I needed to know how to speak anything else...

[trustycrowbar]

So... what's with the failing test grades in Spanish, then?

[His voice carries more idle amusement, than Very-Dissapointed-in-you-Young-Man.]

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh...you know, the usual. I-I guess I'm just not really smart, and I'm lazy. Just--you know, there's other stuff I'd rather be doing than studying for a Spanish test and all.

[Which is accurate. And it's easier to say he's lazy than say he's too busy fighting ghosts in the middle of the night to study.]

[trustycrowbar]

Don't sell yourself short, kid. You learned esperanto just to talk to a friend. People who aren't really smart don't do that.

I get the feeling, that there's a lot more to you than you wanna admit.

[gogoghostpowers]

W-what? Why would--I mean, what makes you say that?

[trustycrowbar]

I mean, there's a lot more going on upstairs than you want to say. Especially if you dismiss things by saying you're not smart. In fact, it sounds a little to me like you're trying to avoid facing something about yourself.

[Why is Gordon starting to feel like there's something big here that he's just not making the connection to..?]

[gogoghostpowers]

Like--like what? What would I be avoiding?

A-and besides, I'm not lying or dismissing anything when I say I'm not smart--after all, I'm lucky if I get a C on something!

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[overwinters]

.. Huh, Esperanto? [ give this girl a moment or two to blink. ]

What's that supposed to be all about?

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[gogoghostpowers]

It's a language! It's not really well-known or popular, though.

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[overwinters]

I've never heard of this one before! Is it so not well-known that only a few people ever speak it?

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[gogoghostpowers]

I think so? I'm not sure how many people speak it, I didn't really check. Maybe a few hundred or thousand or something like that?

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[overwinters]

[ She's thinking about whether that's a lot or not, but somehow she can't exactly decide, so instead she asks: ]

That's more people than there are here, right?

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[gogoghostpowers]

Uhh...yes?

[He's not sure what you're getting at here.]

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[overwinters]

Then it's still pretty well-known, right? A really secret language would only have a few people who speak it!

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[gogoghostpowers]

Well, it's not really a secret language. It's just...not a language any country really uses. Like, I don't think anyone grows up speaking it.

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[overwinters]

Hmmm...

But then I still don't really get it! Why would someone think up a language if it's not really used anywhere? Isn't that just pointless?

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[gogoghostpowers]

I don't know... I think it was supposed to be used somewhere, but it just didn't happen that way.

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[overwinters]

So were they going to make a new country to use it in..?

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[gogoghostpowers]

Uhhh...I kind of doubt that. Maybe use it in a country that already exists? I don't know how countries decide on what languages to use.

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[overwinters]

But it'd be so weird to suddenly change languages!

.. Hmm, maybe I should ask someone about it who knows a lot about it. It just seems really strange to me. There's no reason at all to suddenly change, I think, it'd just be difficult.

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[gogoghostpowers]

[He shrugs.] I don't really know. All I know is that Esperanto exists and, well, I guess some people have to know it, or else I wouldn't be learning it, would I?

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[overwinters]

That's true.. But don't you think it's interesting to think about why it was made too? I'm curious now.