Annie and Twins in Henshin
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"Wanna ask if you can see what Emily's wings are like?"

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"Sure. There's some actual birds around, I can compare."

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Emily, when asked, is perfectly happy to cast her wings spell. She was already in magical girl form to futz with metal.

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"They're definitely metallic. I don't think they exactly match anything else around but I'm not positive, I can't pay attention to everything in range at once."

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"Steel. Might not be the exact same composition as any other steel around; lots of possible combinations of iron with stuff count as steel."

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"What else is nearby and steel?"

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She names several nearby steel objects.

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"Huh. I think I can learn to distinguish the thing they have in common."

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"Well, they probably have a lot in common, the differences are often as much in ratios as what the ingredients actually are."

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"Yeah. What other metals are around?"

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"Lots. Hang on a tic while I fetch a bunch of sculpture from my room?"

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And Emily fetches an assortment of objects in an assortment of shapes and materials.

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All of which Annie will happily learn the texture/ingredient combinations for.

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Eee metallurgy nerding.

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It's fun! Although sort of hard to take notes on. Annie is going to have to make up words.

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Some of the things Annie's sense is picking up are similar enough to things perceptible via magnetism that Emily has made-up words to loan her!

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That's handy! The languages power does not do neologisms but Annie can learn them the usual way.

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It's really interesting that it doesn't do neologisms or conlangs. Maybe it's because they're not anyone's native language?

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That could be it!

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It could also potentially be because not enough people speak it, if it counts dead speakers for that purpose.

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Plausible! What's some recently-invented word that is so new or jargony that no one has it 'natively' but which lots of people have picked up, can they think of one?

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Hmm...Cinnamon roll? Bae? Lol? Yolo?

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"...cinnamon roll is a food, other three I don't get."

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