Wow! This thread is moving faster than I've ever seen it move before. Is this normal when I'm not hours late to the party?
Let's look at the descriptions again:
Naru definitely has something odd going on if she can read the book while Usagi can't. Elysium wouldn't be my first guess, though. The Silver Millennium was explicitly mentioned (at least in this quest) to be an interstellar civilization, and to have colonies on many planets even within this one star system. That's a lot of room for language drift.
"Looks sort of like" presumably means it uses the same character set as High Lunar (or one with only minor modifications and adaptations), but there's still plenty of room for incomprehensibility within that range. For comparison:
> The Latin alphabet is also used by English, French, and Icelandic (I might be misunderstanding that last one). Not interchangeable.
> My understanding was that Mandarin and Cantonese use the same character set, and Japanese uses a fairly similar one.
In short, there should be plenty of other places Naru's mysterious linguistic talent could have come from, without pulling in such an exotic location as Elysium.
Also, the phrase "high Lunar" seems to imply the existence of a "low Lunar" (I've also heard of "high German" and "low German") so the book might be written in Low Lunar.
Compatibility with the augmentation template might be somewhat limited. Compatibility with magic in general should be much more common, but if the Mercury Computer gives it only superficial coverage, Ami's knowledge base will be limited. Also, Ami hasn't had the computer very long (one week? Maybe two?), and in that time she was primarily focused on improving herself, and could have given other magic styles only a quick glance.
Typos:
(note the apostrophe; what you have there is a plural)
Or is the context confusing me somehow and this is Alice talking?
(Looks like the rest of that scene was in present tense, at least)
("whom" is the interrogative direct object pronoun; there isn't a question here for it to fit in.)
(In English, possessive pronouns don't have the apostrophe; compare "his", "hers", and the possessive adjective "theirs"; the word you have there is a contraction for "it is").
("that" is singular, which doesn't fit the rest of the sentence.)
There's several other odd grammar and punctuation pieces, but more than I want to take the time to fully point out.
Let's look at the descriptions again:
Just making sure I understand the scene correctly: Usagi and Naru are both in the classroom at their desks, but the room is otherwise empty due to everyone else being distracted by the talent show mind control, correct?
Naru definitely has something odd going on if she can read the book while Usagi can't. Elysium wouldn't be my first guess, though. The Silver Millennium was explicitly mentioned (at least in this quest) to be an interstellar civilization, and to have colonies on many planets even within this one star system. That's a lot of room for language drift.
"Looks sort of like" presumably means it uses the same character set as High Lunar (or one with only minor modifications and adaptations), but there's still plenty of room for incomprehensibility within that range. For comparison:
> The Latin alphabet is also used by English, French, and Icelandic (I might be misunderstanding that last one). Not interchangeable.
> My understanding was that Mandarin and Cantonese use the same character set, and Japanese uses a fairly similar one.
In short, there should be plenty of other places Naru's mysterious linguistic talent could have come from, without pulling in such an exotic location as Elysium.
Also, the phrase "high Lunar" seems to imply the existence of a "low Lunar" (I've also heard of "high German" and "low German") so the book might be written in Low Lunar.
My first guess would be that Ami (or her research material in the Mercury Computer) is focused primarily on senshi magic first and foremost, which explicitly relies heavily on an external power source (and this source presumably has some security features in place to deter unauthorized access).
Compatibility with the augmentation template might be somewhat limited. Compatibility with magic in general should be much more common, but if the Mercury Computer gives it only superficial coverage, Ami's knowledge base will be limited. Also, Ami hasn't had the computer very long (one week? Maybe two?), and in that time she was primarily focused on improving herself, and could have given other magic styles only a quick glance.
Typos:
do ; as
individual's
(note the apostrophe; what you have there is a plural)
Why is Ami getting tripped up on this? Isn't she supposed to be the smart one? Or is the conversation taking place in English despite everyone in the room (except possibly the butler) being native Japanese speakers?
Or is the context confusing me somehow and this is Alice talking?
So
giggles
(Looks like the rest of that scene was in present tense, at least)
their
and many of them
("whom" is the interrogative direct object pronoun; there isn't a question here for it to fit in.)
its
(In English, possessive pronouns don't have the apostrophe; compare "his", "hers", and the possessive adjective "theirs"; the word you have there is a contraction for "it is").
either "the" or "those"
("that" is singular, which doesn't fit the rest of the sentence.)
You jumped from third person (most of the chapter) to second person in this paragraph I don't think that was on purpose.
There's several other odd grammar and punctuation pieces, but more than I want to take the time to fully point out.
