"Huge problems sure. Small ones..."

“Would prooooobably get drowned out in the unrelated problems my world already has, honestly.”

"Fair enough! Perhaps all the problems will eat each other."

“Well. When you put it like that…at least mals don’t generally go after mundanes.”

"They will at times but they are disbelieved in quite hard when they try. If they get someone, someone is drunk or loopy."

“The kind of problem that come free in box with my home world preferentially go after mundanes.”

"...free in box," Nia giggles.

“You have such a charming turn of phrase! How can I not try to match it?”

Applause.

“Thanks, I think.”

"I am like this because I did not have any of my growing-up languages in more than one place. Swahili at home, Spanish immersion school, English all around me from being in England, but no copying the one sentence in the other place."

“…Wow.”

"Spell competent in all three and terribly charming cherry on top."

"I'm so glad I have magic language powers and don't have to have a normal person language experience."

"It is certainly an hours in the language lab sort of way to be."

“I wonder if the language lab would, in fact, hand out lost languages.”

"You could try it!"

“I can read lost languages anyway!”

"Yes but what ever might your whisper say to you?"

Hey Backchannel what the FUCK does she mean by whisper.

Colloquialism for the disembodied voice that provides listening practice in the language lab. Often very soft but not, literally, a whisper, since that would elide voiced/unvoiced distinctions and languages often have those.

“I don’t know if I might have a whisper at all! The Scholomance has been ever so accommodating but, like, in terms of actually teaching me things I do not already know. Trying to teach me a language would not produce the usual return for its efforts.”

"Possible to double up in a booth - not advisable but it is ever done."

“If my presence allows someone to learn Minoan who otherwise would be deprived of the opportunity I’m willing to help out, but otherwise I have better research to attend to.”

Nod nod. "And googly eyes to put on your agglo with its person name."