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Erin (La Cidiana) ([personal profile] hughes) wrote in [community profile] damned_lounge2008-01-14 11:41 pm
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SUDDENLY, LANGUAGE LAWS!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

IT IS HERE, FINALLY. That which many of you have been waiting for and asking for, and that which we mods have been racking our brains over and which we finally figured out! That which comprises yet another BEHEMOTH of Landel's Damned guidelines!

LANGUAGE LAWS AT LANDEL'S

We tried our best to explain everything as thoroughly as we could, and though there's a simple little version of the rules up top, we'd like it if everyone read through the giant thing at least once so that we're all on the same page and there aren't any misunderstandings.

But haven't all these rules been contradicted by just about everybody in the past? Yes, they have! But it's okay, since we're just going to do a cleansweep and make it so that, suddenly, at the very beginning of this Nightshift, Landel's magic will make everyone's language perception snap to fit those rules, and from then on, we'll be working off of those guidelines.

I know it's a lot to read, but at least it'll help us all be consistent, yeah? D:

In other news, as you can see here, Court has totally kicked my ass again we're slowly but surely getting to the finish line! (I sacrificed app-reading time today to work on the Language Laws, as I figured we should clarify all that before Nightshift.) Hang in there, those of you who haven't gotten e-mails yet! D:

Also, Leora, where are yoouuuu? MR. PUDDLES NEEDS YOU

[identity profile] subversive.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
*mumble mumble* FFVII *mumble* Shinra *mumble mumble* Mako reactors *mumble* Wall Market *mumble mumble* war with Wutai *mumble* Shinra

.... *hangs head in shame* I'll just carry on as usual, shall I? Yes. Good thing I haven't used any Japanese at all with Kadaj. |D; And the shinigami thing is mentioned already in regards to Bleach, sooooo... there we go. I will not go into a length ramble about FFVII, I swear. Somehow. They mentioned they had different languages on Gaia anyway. I'm still fucking confused about... Shinra, Mako reactors, and... whatnot. NEVERMIND. It has like no bearing at all on the language situation at Landel's so I'll just shut up now.

... But then all the signs in Edge were in English. BUT THE MAKO REACTORS WERE NUMBERED IN JAPANESE, GODDAMNIT. AND SHINRA COMPANY'S LOGO HAS THE FUCKING JAPANESE CHARACTERS FOR "SHINRA." WHAT THE HELL NATIONALITY IS RUFUS, ANYWAY? I'M SO CONFUSED. AND THERE WERE BUILDING IN WALL MARKET THAT HAD JAPANESE ON THEM I think. Wait a minute... WELL, ANYWAY. Yeah, I'm just being weird. Still, it really is weird, isn't it? And if Wutai is supposed to be like Japan, then wtf is that because they were at war with them andasdljdglkj SHUTTING UP NOW I SWEAR.
Edited 2008-01-15 23:03 (UTC)

[identity profile] laverinth.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
lol You say this like things in Final Fantasy are actually supposed to make sense. XDD

[identity profile] subversive.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
.... Omg stfu D: D: D:

._.

[identity profile] laverinth.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I still crack up over that icon. Every. Single. Time.

[identity profile] subversive.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
YEAH, SEE. IT'S WEIRD.

Um. Um. Maybe. Could be. We'll just ignore the fact that everyone conveniently speaks the same language all over the world when you visit places in the game. And that Cait Sith miraculously sprouted an accent in the movie. And that that Rosso chick sounded Russian or something even though she was supposedly raised entirely underground somehow. Magically. Like some kind of fungus. Her and the rest of those crazy glowing Tsviet bitches. Fungus, I tell you.

... ANYHOW. Understood. ._.;;; Idon'toveranalyzeshitIswear.

[identity profile] continuum.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Just call it Gaia-ese :[ I'm going with English because...yeah. XD; WHY NOT. askldjfl;asj

And Rufus is above nationality, he's just RUFUS SHIN-RA END OF SENTENCE KTHNX. So there. PROBLEM SOLVED.

Actually, you could just say that Shin-Ra ruled the world and therefore fucked up all the languages when they took over and this is why you have Japanese and English all over the place. \o/ [/complete BS]

[identity profile] subversive.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I could go on about how it shouldn't even be called English since there is no England, but I'll just shut up already. And it's a mystery how their language could have developed into something like English when they don't have Latin and Greek to steal word roots from and whatnot. BUT I DIGRESS. Let's just pretend the Ancients had a language like that and ignore the rest of it because it's too fucking confusing.

.. WORKS FOR ME. 8D

... Well, that makes sense, actually. I mean, not that they'd fuck up languages, but that the same language would be standard worldwide. HMMM. Oh god, why am I still thinking about this? DX SHOOT ME PLZ, MAIA BB.

[identity profile] continuum.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
...HAHAH. Now you have me thinking about it, too, and I'm sitting here staring at my fic wondering if I should insert something in there about Shin-Ra implementing a standard language. XD;;

[identity profile] subversive.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
BUT IT MAKES SENSE. Like what China did with their writing system! Only, you know, worldwide. And stuff. And the fact that EVERYWHERE accepts gil instead of some other kinda currency also makes it seem pretty damn feasible. SEE, IT'S LOGICAL.

[identity profile] continuum.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
IT IS LOGICAL. OMG, we have made sense of FFVII. \o/ Even though I still have no idea what you would call their language. Where is Tolkien's genius when you need him?