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"It's hard to explain."

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"Can you at least give me a general category? Is it that there's some subtler inconvenience that's difficult to put in words?"

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"Not, not exactly, it's - it's the word..."

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"The word?"

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"Shren. It's Draconic, you can't even learn Draconic."

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"Why not?"

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"It's unlearnable. It changes too much. We can speak it as part of the speaking all languages thing."

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"Changes so much you can't naturally learn it? So it's, what, another magic thing?"

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"Yes."

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"So you have a magic language being ableist at you in your head."

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"I guess."

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"That sounds really unpleasant."

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"Do you have any idea why your magic language is horribly ableist?"

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"No."

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"Damn. Ugh."

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Ehail shrugs and looks at her shoes.

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"I wonder if I could convince it that it was being horribly ableist and should stop. That's sort of how my favorite branch of my magic works, is convincing things of things."

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"...I'm not sure what's there to be convinced, but I suppose you could try it, if you can normally convince things that aren't thinking."

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"Convincing things that aren't thinking is how Sympathy magic works. Could you say some things in Draconic so I can see if I can get my magic to tell me things about it?"

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"Okay."

The translation spell cuts out entirely as she speaks.
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Bizarre.

C'mon, I don't need to know your words or anything, but what's going on here...
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Draconic: is the thing that is going on.

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Okay, yes, but what is Draconic, exactly?

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It's a language! An ever-shifting arbitrarily connoted language. Except hereish, it's not arbitrarily connoted hereish.

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