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Huo [Zhuge Liang, styled Kongming] ([personal profile] getsomesleep) wrote2010-08-14 02:44 am

一 ; yī

[New handwriting today, and it's quite beautiful. Those who read the original Chinese characters might appreciate the skill behind the expert strokes: flawless calligraphy, itself poetry of sorts, yet not slow and cautious but decisive, the writing emerging complete and without hesitation. Those who get a translation miss out on some of the finer points of the art, perhaps, but the effect is the same in every language.]

Warmest greetings to the residents of Edensphere.

This humble servant, the lowest of souls, begs leave to dwell among you and hereby be known, in lieu of a more appropriate name, by the character ‘Huo'.

Although I do not yet know my own measure, and indeed expect that it be the very image of mediocrity, it is my outmost desire to be of some use in the undertakings of the city. I will take up whatever profession is required, and toil in that capacity to the very best of my ability.

Sincerely, I offer my prayers of good neighborhood in the hope that they be accepted in the same spirit in which they were made.

-- 火

Anachronism stew time!

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello to you, as well.

A thousand pardons, but it seems that there is a part of your words that I cannot read.

Re: Anachronism stew time!

[identity profile] kamishininoyari.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, well that sounds like a personal problem. :) [draws smiley faces at the end of just about every remark in his journal]

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gin you dick, confusing the emoticon-illiterate kid!]

Certainly, I am at fault. If it will not trouble you overmuch to interpret: what is the meaning of :)?

Ah memories of him being taught this

[identity profile] inthecenterfold.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a face - called a "smiley" because it looks like a smile if you turn it sideways. Two dots for eyes and a mouth. No nose. Like...

Re: Ah memories of him being taught this

[identity profile] kamishininoyari.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, you ruined all the fun.

Re: Ah memories of him being taught this

[identity profile] inthecenterfold.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't get it myself, so I didn't think he'd get it either.

Okay now he thinks this is the greatest thing ever

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ingenious. A natural progression of this system of communication. Is there an unhappy equivalent? It will be :(, I would guess?

XDDDD YAY ANACHRONISM

[identity profile] inthecenterfold.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah you got it. If you want noses it's either :-) or :-(

There's lots more I'm sure you'll pick up along the way.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I will keep an eye out for them.

[identity profile] inthecenterfold.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Dash would know all of them, I bet. He's like... the King of Moonspeak - there's a lot of funny words he has to explain to people. And this just sounds like right up his alley.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
A thousand pardons; I must again display my ignorance. What is 'Moonspeak'?

[Is now wondering if Dash is King of the Moon People? You betcha.]

I realize he is so not helping X3

[identity profile] inthecenterfold.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm actually... not entirely sure what Moonspeak is, per se. I just know that Dash and a couple of other people know a lot of really strange words... I get the impression it's mostly advanced technology and culture-specific stuff.

I picked up the word from other people who used it for how Dash speaks.

This is quality crack XD

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
I will assume that it is meant as a generic term for strangeness, and does not indicate that he does, in fact, come from the moon.

/makes it worse

[identity profile] inthecenterfold.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You know...

With Dash I really wouldn't be surprised.

You are confusing the Zhuggers!

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps I should meet him.

/has no regrets

[identity profile] inthecenterfold.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude I'd love to meet him. Never have.

[[OOC: Oh god Dash has white hair & blue eyes fffff MOONPERSON]]

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I see now how it originates from a smile - just as the character of my name originates from the shape of flames. How beautiful. Is this a development made in Edensphere itself?

[identity profile] kamishininoyari.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure, we'll go with that. :)

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
You must be a very cheerful man.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
How very fortunate you are. May I beg the name of the one who has taught me this new and valuable method of communication?

[identity profile] kamishininoyari.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Snake. Nice to meet you. :)

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It is a pleasure, Snake.

[identity profile] kamishininoyari.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Pleasure's all mine. :)