Fortress of Meropide - Group Chat

[loupmorque]

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{ A group chat made for people living in Meropide or for its regular come-and-go visitors. }

Comments

[moderni]

Duly noted. That sort of unorthodox use of language is by far the most difficult thing to keep up with, and the most difficult to search cleanly as well. So I'm sure I'll continue to have questions in the future.

[tonberrykin]

Oh yeah people smarter than me have made all sorts of gushing and or angry tangents about how language has evolved under the effect of memes and how deeply referential online culture has gotten and there's no clean Rosetta stone of internet humor to bring it all together yet.

[ except loss.jpg, but that's a ten part lecture series. ]

[moderni]

Some people are far too wary of a little novelty.

"Rosetta stone"?

[tonberrykin]

Change is bad mmkay.

So back in the old days people had to figure out how to translate languages to each other, right?? Especially old dead languages with not many active speakers or... knowers... so eventually old dudes with nothing better to do did digging good and found a slab that actually had three different versions of the same thing inscribed on it, so it was a thing of like 'here's how you translate language a to language c'.

And now it's a set of super expensive computer software to help people learn languages, but it doesn't have a vaguely threatening cartoon owl to condescend to you if you don't do your Japanese lesson, so who's to say if it's any good.

[moderni]

I...see. An important archaeological find.

I don't understand the relevance of the cartoon owl.

[tonberrykin]

this is Duo! he wants to teach you mediocre Spanish and if you miss a day or three he'll send you five condescending emails and potentially kidnap your family :D

[moderni]

So it's a last resort for those who have no family left, then.

[He's probably clocked that this is a joke. He's not serious, right?]

[tonberrykin]

They still have organs. Fingers. Toes.

Pets. Houses. Friends.

[ ... it is a joke, right? ]

[moderni]

So many things vulnerable to a sharp avian beak. A pity.

[tonberrykin]

So many things one man can lose if he's not up to date on his Swedish.

It's 10 PM, do you know where your children are?