Fourth Floor Common Room: Thursday Late Morning

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally was doing her fair share of contributing to the free consumption of mass quantities to the masses.

She was baking vegan sugar cookies. And dancing a little dorkily to the tune 'Even Rats' by The Slip.

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"A delightfully crowded and very dirty gutter, yis." "This writing looks a lot like Chinese," she observed, looking terribly fascinated and interested. "My native language, Japanese, emerged from Chinese. I can't be certain how similiar it actually is because I do not actually know Chinese, but Ranma does, perhaps I should ask him..." Her tone was very distant and rambling.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

*does not mind a bit, no* Katara listened politely, following most of what Setsuna said. "Bridge said something like that too," she replied. She held out the book that she'd taken out of the library written for Mandarin Chinese speakers to learn to write English. "I can't really understand what this language says, but the characters are often the same."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna leaned in to give the book a close look. "Very interesting. I wonder if...it's the same base but, since you're from what I can only assume is a different timeline, your language has evolved differently than Chinese. I wonder if...Ranma's very good at languages, so I almost want to ask him if there's some system that could work where Chinese can sort of work as a Rosetta Stone of sorts in teaching you how to write English..."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

And Katara was completely lost. "Okay..."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna immediately drew into her shoulders a little with a flush of pink. "S..sorry. I, uh...I babble sometimes..."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"No, that's okay," Katara said hastily. "I'm sorry. I just...didn't understand what you were saying. Rosetta Stone? Ranma?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Sorry. Um, the Rosetta Stone is an ancient artifact used to decipher ancient languages. It was sort of the missing link to a lot of old documents and tablets that would otherwise go untranslated. And...uh, well, Ranma...he...that's my boyfriend."