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mommysquad ([personal profile] mommysquad) wrote in [community profile] hms_anon2012-04-17 04:38 pm
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 What kind of shenanigans did you get up to behind your teachers' backs?

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(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
what language are the atla characters actually supposed to be speaking

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
a chinese dialect, i think? idk if they've specified which one. whenever you see written words they're chinese characters




what i don't get is why everyone speaks the same language

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
bc magic

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
legacy from an old empire, maybe?

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
ahhhh nona i want deep intrinsic world-building fic of atla that addresses this now in the form of "there was once an empire of all the nations together..."

ahhhh

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
it's the common tonuge

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
many asian cultures use/d chinese script tho, even tho they don't speak chinese

japan, korea, old vietnam, etc, all use/d chinese in their formal writing

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
probably a language unique to their world.

+1

(Anonymous) 2012-04-18 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
this would be my guess too
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