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[lapidarius]

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[lapidarius]

polnareff don't take this the wrong way but i definitely will not need your help

i think i can probably catch up but it's going to be an enormous pain

[silvercrusader]

suit yourself
i just hope you remember this when it turns out all you can take in terms of foreign language is french
OH IF ONLY I HADN'T OFFENDED AND ISOLATED POLNAREFF youll say
but itll be too late
ill be hanging out with holly and will be deaf to your tearful pleas for assistance

[lapidarius]

French can't possibly be harder to learn than English was.

[silvercrusader]

W E E P I N G as you ask me for help

anyway french is v different than italian or english
pronunciation wise i mean
bruno keeps mouthing the vowels wrong

[lapidarius]

I can worry about pronunciation once I have a reasonable grasp of key phrases and grammatical structure.

You're teaching Buccellati how to speak French?

[silvercrusader]

yeah! he asked to learn it two weeks ago
so we're doing like
you know all the starter shit
"hello goodbye my name is how are you im fine"
shit like that
and how to say the alphabet and verbs and stuff like that
hes actually pretty damn good at it we can talk a little now
i mean mostly i talk and he listens and sometimes says "yes" or "no" but
he definitely is learning

[lapidarius]

That's pretty cool, actually.

[silvercrusader]

YEAH

between him and fugo im just gonna switch over entirely to french

[lapidarius]

You do and I'll have to start switching to Italian.

[silvercrusader]

i mean i can curse in italian now
the one thing i can do in it but i can do it really well
what a conversation we'll have

[lapidarius]

Funny you mention that, so can I.

[silvercrusader]

tell me what you know

[lapidarius]

I'm still working on it, but Fugo was nice enough to provide me with a set of flash cards. I need to go over them in proper detail later.

[silvercrusader]

we can practice if you want
i want to hear you curse in italian

[lapidarius]

I'm sure someday you'll aggravate me enough to hear me curse in three different languages.

[silvercrusader]

i didnt say i wanted it directed AT ME
just in general
someday you should teach me japanese curses

[lapidarius]

I actually just had this discussion with someone else recently--our cursing isn't quite as colorful as that of other languages. Simply being coarse and impolite in phrasing is an insult in and of itself.

[silvercrusader]

i'm going to piss off a lot of people in japan
no wonder i piss you off so often

[lapidarius]

The only time you've ever seen me angry was Calcutta, when I almost broke your nose. Everything else was just annoyance.

When I'm pissed off, you'll know it.

[silvercrusader]

honestly i bet i will
still
rudeness aside
i want to learn more japanese
not the language itself italian takes priority but still
i ought to know SOMETHING

[lapidarius]

Okay, okay. Let me think.

If you want to tell someone 'stop being stupid', that's ふざけるな, fuzakeru na. 'Drop dead' is くたばれ, kutabare. やかましい, yakamashii is basically 'shut up, you're noisy'--that's one of the first things I ever overheard Jotaro saying, so you know it'll be a coarse and unrefined way of talking.

[oathshackledbird]

So what you are saying is that the formality is so much a part of the culture that it is a key component in even the most basic ways of identifying yourself and everyone else. It sounds like the games people play when at court. One word or phrase has so many layers that just the very tone it is said in can make it mean different things. Even a small shift in tone can take a greeting to an insult that one would kill another over very easily.

[lapidarius]

I don't know about killing each other in our case, but that is in fact the general idea of it.

[oathshackledbird]

I like to think modern day has gotten passed killing each other for an insult, but it almost sounds like said insult done correctly in Japanese might end up being worse than killing someone. I guess it just depends on how strongly the person feels about formality.

[lapidarius]

Probably. It could definitely land you in trouble with the right people, or get you labeled a delinquent.