IC: Human hijinks

[plzdontoustme]

[A young man lies beneath a tree outside his cabin, studying an open book and struggling over some of the words.]



((Post for anyone who wanted to play more with human-Toboe since I didn't quite do all that I wanted with him yet.))

Comments

[shamedbythecone.livejournal.com]

Are you reading?

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

[Looks up and smiles at.]

Alpha! Well, I'm trying. It's still kind of hard...

[capt-liarpants.livejournal.com]

*running over* What are you doing, Toboe?

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

Hi, Usopp. I'm practicing what Rakushun showed me.

[capt-liarpants.livejournal.com]

He taught you to read? That quickly?

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

I'm still not that good at it yet... I can only get the really small ones and some of them are still hard.

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

Having trouble?

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of big ones here....

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

Try reading aloud. Sometimes that makes words easier to figure out!

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

Mm, I've been trying to do that. It's hard when some of them don't make sense the way they sound.

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

Some letters can have different sounds depending on where they are in a word.

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

Where they are... ?

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

Take 'e' for example. In most words it sounds like "eh", but if it's next to another vowel it can sound like "ee".

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

How do you know if it's a vowel?

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

The vowels are a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y!

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can remember that!

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

All the other letters are called consonants.

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

There's so many rules...

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

And every language has different rules.

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

How does Mikage keep it all straight?

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

[hey you're a person, that's means I can properly DRAPE]

Lots and lots of practice~ after a while it becomes habit!

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

[This is such a strange and new experience. :o]

Mm, I'll practice everyday!

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

Do your best!

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. I have to learn as much as I can so I can try to remember it all when I change back!

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

Do wolves have a harder time learning to read than humans do?

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

We can't read at all. The letters are too hard to recognize.

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

Not at all? You can't recognize your name, either?

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

I think I can now.

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

[writes it out in the dirt]

[plzdontoustme.livejournal.com]

[Sounds it out slowly...]

[swornmyoaths.livejournal.com]

[writes MIKAGE and BURUPYA underneath it]