The Voices in My Head

So today I decided to hang out in the Ahern welcome area. That’s not actually the original welcome area (I think Plum is), but it’s the first one they made as a 4-sim cluster. It usually has a permanent traffic problem, with lots of lag, blingtards, and the occassional newbie.

So I like helping newbies. I keep telling people I’m nuts. But they never believe me. Maybe this’ll convince you all.

So anyway, I’m there maybe 2 minutes when his guy comes along and says hello in Japanese. So I say hello to him. In English. To be fair, my profile does say I can speak Japanese. It also says I can speak Serbo-Melanesian. Don’t take everything you read as the literal truth. Use a little judgement maybe guys?

Apparently, that reply in English didn’t put him off the Japanese schtick. He tried to continue the conversation in Japanese. Now, I am fairly certain he wasn’t Japanese. Japanese people do not type Japanese using English characters. And they don’t use “anata” the way this guy was. But I have been wrong before. call me a cynic. So I switched to Japanese typing mode, and replied to him in fluent Japanese. Lo and behold! He was stumped!

Guys, if you want to be charming and friendly, that’s cool. Need help? That’s cool. Practice your Japanese? That’s cool too. But if your Japanese vocabulary is limited to “hello”, “how are you”, “awesome”, and “cute”, then perhaps you need to take some more classes before going for conversation practice.