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taxonmods ([personal profile] taxonmods) wrote in [community profile] taxonooc2011-05-20 10:17 am

don't speak i know just what you're saying so please stop explaining don't tell me cause it hurts

WE DO IN FACT SPEAK AMERICANO. AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

Only with a lot less actual speaking for a while. As outlined in May's State of the Taxon, we’ve got a system glitch starting around midday on Sunday the 22nd.

An attempt by the aliens to stop the citizens from understanding the incoming radio signals will result in the characters losing the ability to speak - or indeed make any vocalizations - and the tablets will only support text transmissions. This will last through the 26th, with some residual effects lingering until the 29th.

List of details!

● At the start of the glitch, there will be a five minute period in which characters will speak gibberish, nonsense sounds strung together.

● After this, spoken communication will be shut off completely and tablets will default to text.

● Characters who know languages other than English will find themselves writing in that language or languages. They can stick to English with a lot of effort, but words or phrases will still slip through.

● On the 26th, verbal communication will be restored. Multilingual characters will still find themselves slipping into non-English.

● This will all be cleared up and normalcy restored on the 29th.



For characters who will be affected by the multi-lingual shenanigans, you can use Google Translate to muck up your tags, or denote things in other languages by bolding the text.

Questions? Plottings? Flailings? This is the post for 'em! Speak now or forever hold... you get the idea.
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[personal profile] defenestration 2011-05-23 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Adrian will be struggling not to fall into German, which will probably be easier via text than when voices get turned back on. He has a thing about people knowing his background. I'm headcanoning that he speaks Greek, Egyptian Arabic, French and Italian, because of his upbringing and the time he spent in the Middle East, plus being a freaking genius. He also probably can read Middle Egyptian and Coptic.

Mattie is all English all the time, and probably won't be much affected by the writing-only period either. Letter writing is clearly a lost art, here.