Probably my most challenging character for this kind of LOL.
Jim speaks 23rd century English which probably is about as similar to contemporary English as our language is to the 18th century. His pronunciation is probably a lot different and there's bound to be hundreds of loan words from other Federation planets as well as language drift between English and other major Earth languages as the planet became a more unified people in the century and a half since Earth was introduced to the galactic political field.
He also speaks fluent Andorian and is passable in Vulcan and Tellarite as these are the other founding species of the Federation and some language in all three xenolanguages is required of Starfleet Officers. He knows a smattering of phrases in a dozen other xenolanguages, too. Just enough to be a tourist or get into some serious trouble.
Edit: Thanks to two plus years dating an Imperial battlemage Jim is slowly learning how to read Cyrodiilic though he only knows how to speak a handfull of words and those probably aren't appropriate outside the bedroom considering how he learned them....
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Jim speaks 23rd century English which probably is about as similar to contemporary English as our language is to the 18th century. His pronunciation is probably a lot different and there's bound to be hundreds of loan words from other Federation planets as well as language drift between English and other major Earth languages as the planet became a more unified people in the century and a half since Earth was introduced to the galactic political field.
He also speaks fluent Andorian and is passable in Vulcan and Tellarite as these are the other founding species of the Federation and some language in all three xenolanguages is required of Starfleet Officers. He knows a smattering of phrases in a dozen other xenolanguages, too. Just enough to be a tourist or get into some serious trouble.
Edit: Thanks to two plus years dating an Imperial battlemage Jim is slowly learning how to read Cyrodiilic though he only knows how to speak a handfull of words and those probably aren't appropriate outside the bedroom considering how he learned them....