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Judas Iscariot (Judah) ([personal profile] thirtybits) wrote2013-12-21 03:00 am
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"This is Judah's voicemail, no need to leave your number, I'll reply as soon as I can."



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depicted: (and where you walked you always)

taking a wild guess on legal status weeeeee

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
Why? [Dorian leans towards Judas. While his Latin is more Late than Classical, it is smooth and easy compared to Hebrew, reflecting familiarity and practice. After all, he has hardly had anyone to speak with in Hebrew, but he and his friends were all excellent with Latin.] Because you can't stop me. But please, don't equate me with a centurion. I am a patrician, my darling dediticie.
depicted: (big bright accent catty smile)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dorian claps his hands together, laughing in delight.] Who would have believed it! There is your spine: hiding in the language of those who rule you.
depicted: (and where you walked you always)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dorian raises his hands, indicating that there is no need to be hostile, and moves himself into Greek. He is as comfortable with it as he is with Latin.] What about this? More neutral ground?
depicted: (c'est le malaise du moment)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[After working out who 'Yaakov' and 'Yohanan' must be, he slips, however uncomfortably, back into Hebrew.] I didn't expect Arabic. A lot of speakers in the area?
depicted: (you got that medicine I need)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
And here I thought my home country was a linguistic mess. [Though it all gets translated anyway—eerie to notice, now that Kido has pointed it out to him—he can hear the difference in how Judas talks. He places his hand over Judas's.] Thank you for tolerating that. I didn't often get the chance to practice my Hebrew. Most of my friends were pure Hellenists.
depicted: (live like it's the style)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, then Hebrew severed us both from our groups. I more by choice, of course. [So Dorian makes the effort to return to Hebrew again. It is difficult, but that doesn't make it unworthwhile.] I enjoy it.
depicted: (beauty pageants all the time)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dorian simply likes the way Judas seems to prefer using it, and hearing it.] The beauty in a language, that comes from how it is used. Language is sound. It is our work to make it music, not to make it noise.
depicted: (this is your final chance to prove)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hebrew lessons at Cambridge did not cover the kind of things Dorian is trying to say now. He works out each sentence in his head before trying to say it.] Sound is sound. Ugly or beautiful. Any language is harsh. Any language is pleasant. You work to make it one or the other. Like with— [No, he definitely doesn't have this one. He is pretty sure it wasn't a word in ancient times and he has no idea what it would be called now, and he doesn't know the general term for an 'instrument.' So he mimes the playing of a piano.] Your skill decides if your song is ugly or beautiful.
depicted: (I would go out tonight)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-03-31 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dorian's smile expresses his disbelief.] Very little skill. It is merciful of you to take that attitude to it.

[It doesn't matter if he is good or bad at it. What matters is Judas's expression.]
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[personal profile] depicted 2014-04-11 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Nonsense. It is your mother's tongue. [It's good that a lot of his Hebrew was learned from the Bible because that gives a pretty big vocabulary, really.] Don't tell me you only use Japanese in modern times.
depicted: (cigarettes and chocolate milk)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-04-11 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I spoke English with Englishmen when I was in France. And when I was in Singapore, for that matter.

[The joys of being a former Imperial power: a feeling of linguistic entitlement.]
depicted: (live like it's the style)

[personal profile] depicted 2014-04-11 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I remember. [He grips Judas's as if to bring him in.] But Yeshua knows it.

And I always assumed that Satan would taunt you in your own tongue.


[Accidentally forgetting that Satan is also an actual Hebrew word.]

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