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She can tap some people and get an Allspeak wand. Someone asks who she is. Thor says "a visitor from a parallel universe."

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She doesn't tell anyone otherwise. She thanks them for the wand and takes herself and Thor back to Wakanda. "Okay, who has a compelling reason to be able to operate in arbitrary linguistic environments and doesn't care that I have no way to verify that this one is like the kind I know how to use?" she asks, brandishing it.

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"Sounds useful. Thor, you didn't tell us you had magic language powers!"

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"You didn't just... think that people on his planet spoke English, did you?" asks Loki, bapping Tony on the head with the wand.

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"Aren't you fifteen hundred years old? That's enough time to learn a lot of languages the long way."

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"I guess, but it won't get you idiomatically fluent without practice with native speakers. There you go. I'd usually give you the user's manual but I don't have any on hand, ask me if you have a glitch, it sometimes has glitches, once I had all gendered words swapped coming and going for months in a language family before I noticed."

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"You can ship that as a feature. Once the world's not ending I bet some people'd be all over it."

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"Once things have settled down the user's manual will also tell you how to recreationally twiddle the vocabulary."

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"How do I start speaking Latin, I want to start speaking Latin."

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"It's a utility spell, not a recreational linguistics spell. You can write Latin if you attempt to write for an audience that reads Latin; speaking is just how you've always spoken but people'll hear what they need to hear."

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"If I address a message to F.R.I.D.A.Y. and tell her to give it to Julius Caesar?"

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"Might work, I haven't attempted the use case."

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"F.R.I.D.A.Y., save this message until you've got a number for Caesar, the original, not the pizza place, and then tell him 'you may have been the emperor of Rome, but did you have a microwave?'"

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Bystanders without Allspeak will hear Latin.

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"Oh, that's nice, you could recover dead languages that way. If you know anyone who spoke them."

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"That's all the historical figures I know, except Cap, and he speaks English."

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"The Earth with the demons has a functioning afterlife, you can dig up whoever you like out of there even if nobody else has resurrected any of them yet."

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"It sounds like they may not have Wakandans?"

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"They might not have a Wakanda, you'd have to be pretty resolutely hidey to exist in some of these Earths without having made it onto the list of Earth countries, but it'll have emperors of Rome."

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"The truth of Wakanda is very carefully hidden, but even before recent events it was known to the outside world that there is a Wakanda. They just presumed it poor, savage, and not worth stealing from."

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"Yeah that's not the way to keep my folks out, they'd have turned up with an aid package and an invitation to join Vanda Nossëo."

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"I think colonizers often arrive with aid and invitations."

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"I will let you hash that out with Vanda Nossëo later, I am not the welcome wagon."

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"Mmmhmm." She dismisses a hologram to empty some counter space for another one that's doing something more interesting.

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