Mortal and Promise in fairyland
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And Latin?

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Also works.

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How about Eyak? There is only one person alive who currently speaks it, apparently. His employee also helpfully suggested Osage as a recently extinct language (as of last year), so Mortal asked them to figure out how to say 'wave' in that language, too, under the reasoning that enough people kinda more-or-less speak Latin but that one is really unknown other than an apparently doomed project to keep it alive with a very incomplete dictionary.

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Eyak works. So does Osage.

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...what about Tolkien's elvish?

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Elvish works.

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"It seems to be related to usage somehow, but I'm not sure how to easily distinguish between hypotheses..." He shakes his head quickly. "And anyway this isn't very relevant right now, I'm sure amongst plain speak recognised languages we can find ones with shorter words and sentences and symbols for the relevant orders if we need to."

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"If that's easier than just talking faster, sure."

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"It can often be, some sounds are just naturally easier to cram together and say faster in a human mouth than others, and some words are just shorter in some languages than others, too."

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"Okay."

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"The stamps should arrive soon, anyway," he says, and checks the feed for Verve's activity.

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Verve hasn't gotten a moment unsupervised yet.

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Of course she hasn't. But it'll happen soon.

The radar?
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Fairies moving around.

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Naturally.

So they can wait a few more minutes until Mortal receives a text and a motorcycle pulls up and he goes to the door and the person who arrived does not go to the door and he meets them and gets a bag with stamps and returns inside.

"I have stamps! I'm also a bit peckish, want food?"
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"Yes please."

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He leaves the bag on the table and goes fetch some fruits for Promise and makes himself a sandwich, then goes back to the operations room—for lack of a better word—to feed her.

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Mm, fruit.

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Mm, sammich.

Then: stamps! Do they work?
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Stamps don't work.

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Darnit.

How about using separate pieces of papers with letters to form words?
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Also doesn't work.

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"Well that's disappointing."

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"Assembling the papers looked like something you could do incorrectly under stress anyway, but the stamp's a pity, yes."

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"Yeah, I was hoping at least the ones whose letters I choose would..."

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